What You Should Know: - IBM has launched Rapid Supplier Connect, a blockchain-based solution to help battle medical supply chain shortages due to COVID-19. - The network will help government agencies and healthcare organizations identify new, non-traditional suppliers who have pivoted to address the shortage of equipment, devices, and supplies needed for COVID-19 relief efforts. -
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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
New COVID-19 Tracker Predicts Future Hot Spots Over Next 7-10 Days
What You Should Know: - Cotiviti unveiled its COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker to map future infection “hot spots” that may emerge over the next seven to ten days across the U.S. - The COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker identifies potentially hidden outbreak areas by analyzing COVID screening trends across the millions of medical claims processed through the company’s Caspian Insights platform. - Forecasting future surges of infection is critical for flattening the curve now, especially considering
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Report: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing Patient Communications
What You Should Know: - Data from Luma Health reveals stark gaps in the volume and cadence of COVID-19-related messages sent between doctors and patients. - California, one of the states hit early and hard by COVID-19, increased patient communications more than 91x over, with 206,000 messages broadcast between late January and March; New York saw a 16x increase over the same period (both states with approximately the same number of cases in early March). - During the month of
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Boston Medical, Rimidi Partner to Tackle High-Risk Pregnancy During COVID-19
What You Should Know: - To help overcome the challenges of high-risk pregnancies, Boston Medical Center announced a partnership with Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform, to enable physicians to remotely collect and analyze patient-generated data to better treat patients remotely. - Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, the adoption of Rimidi’s platform will ease fears and provide an extra layer of medical support by leveraging remote monitoring capabilities. Boston
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New Survey Underscores Importance of Social Determinants of Health Amid COVID-19 Crisis
What You Should Know: - Welltok survey reveals social determinants of health (SDOH) are becoming increasingly valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic for providers and health plans. It’s important they know what kind of lifestyle and environmental factors consumers are up against during social distancing and preventing the spread of the virus - Welltok survey of more than 2,000 adults finds consumers don’t know what SDOH to share with their provider for optimal care As the COVID-19
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Alliance to Distribute 7,500 Smart Thermometers to CBO Workers, Underserved Individuals in New York
What You Need to Know:- Alliance for Better (Alliance) to distribute 7,500 Kinsa Health smart thermometers to community-based organizations to protect CBO workers and underserved individuals in New York's Capital District.- By using this simple tool to detect potential signs of the coronavirus, those social services workers can then be isolated to reduce the potential spread of the virus to their co-workers, and to the community members they serve.- Kinsa Health’s smart thermometers include a
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Cerner Offers Free Access to De-Identified COVID-19 Patient Data for Research, Vaccine Development
What You Should Know: Cerner offers health systems and research centers free access to de-identified COVID-19 data to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The de-identified COVID-19 data includes patient demographics, underlying illnesses, chronic conditions, treatments, lab results, clinical complications and outcomes. Today, Cerner announced a new offering to eligible U.S. health systems and academic research centers that it was providing complimentary access to critical
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Airforce to Deploy FDA-Approved Oral Fluid COVID-19 Tests Across US Military
What You Should Know: COVID-19 testing startup Curative Inc. and Gothams announced it has signed an agreement (phase one is $13m USD) with the U.S. Air Force to deploy its FDA-authorized oral fluid COVID-19 tests and comprehensive testing service to U.S. military personnel around the world. In this initial agreement, Curative will rapidly establish a new laboratory facility, fully operational this week, which will process
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Verily Launches COVID-19 Pathfinder for Health Systems & Hospitals
What You Need to Know: Verily has launched COVID-19 Pathfinder-- a new set of tools that provide on-demand access to COVID-19 information directly from a hospital or health system website. To help relieve the burden on care teams, Verily has launched COVID-19 Pathfinder, a screening tool and programming template that provide on-demand access to COVID-19 information directly from a hospital or health system website. San Joaquin General Hospital, Western
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FCC Approves Third Set of 6 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What You Need to Know: – FCC approves the third set of six COVID-19 telehealth program providers, totaling $2.56M in funding. – To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 17 health care providers in 10 states for a total of $9.5 million in funding. The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional six funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, totaling $2.56M in funding. The third set of providers
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