“You only know who is naked when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett famously said of the nation’s businesses when markets tank. For the nation’s information systems, the opposite is true. You see their weaknesses when they are inundated by a tidal wave of data.
A case in point is the information infrastructure of the American healthcare system, which will play a critical role in understanding and battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as the capacity of some national health systems have been
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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Luma Health Launches Patient-Centric Telehealth Solution with No App, Login or Portal Required
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health launches new telehealth offering for providers that need to deliver care to patients virtually, quickly and seamlessly and patients need to get that care with one click.
- Luma Health Telehealth supports real-time EHR integration to enable providers to connect virtually with, and provide care for, their patients with just one click.
Luma Health launches Luma Health Telehealth as part of its Total Patient Engagement platform. The telehealth
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NovuHealth Launches COVID-19 Rapid Response Engagement Solution
What You Should Know:
- NovuHealth has released a new rapid response engagement solution to help plans communicate vital information and plan resources with members, including at-risk populations for increased communication, such as seniors, mom-and-baby populations, members with pre-existing conditions, and those living in regional hot spots.
- Health plans are in a unique position to connect their members with the information, resources, and benefits they need. However, many health
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FCC Chairman Unveils $200 Million COVID-19 Telehealth Program
- FCC new program would provide immediate support to healthcare facilities and patients across the country; separate connected care pilot program would study long-term role of telehealth.
- The $200 million Program would immediately support healthcare providers responding to the pandemic by providing eligible healthcare providers support to purchase telecommunications services, information services.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today announced his plan for a
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Providence Uses Remote Patient Monitoring For 700+ COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Providence is monitoring patients suffering from COVID-19 symptoms using Xealth’s digital health platform to deliver Twistle’s care automation and remote patient monitoring platform.
- So far, more than 700 positive or presumptive positive COVID-19 patients are already being helped with this solution at home, keeping patients safe while reducing additional stress on hospitals, emergency rooms, and front-line health care teams.
- Patients who are exhibiting
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COVID-19: Why Africa Urgently Needs an Ubuntu Plan
One virus has disrupted the whole world in a manner never seen before in history.
Africa urgently needs a globally coordinated Ubuntu Plan in response to COVID-19, a fiscal stimulus that recognizes our shared and connected humanity, as we find ourselves in the midst of an unprecedented crisis.
The world's largest cities are eerily silent. One virus has disrupted the whole world in a manner never seen before in history.
COVID-19, a term that did not exist in our vocabulary a couple of
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Travel Nurse Pay Nearly Doubles Nationwide from Coronavirus Outbreak
What You Should Know:
- As demand for nurses across the country increases to treat the coronavirus outbreak, the average weekly pay for travel nurses has nearly doubled, according to recent findings from healthcare staffing platform NurseFly.
- There was a 76% increase in average nurse pay nationwide since March, with increases of up to 90% over the average pay in Washington.
- Hospitals are paying Crisis/Pandemic rates up to $4,400 weekly to quickly staff up for the caring of
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‘Pandemic Drone’ Could Detect Virus Symptoms Like COVID-19 in Crowds
What You Should Know:
- A drone to remotely detect people in crowds with infectious respiratory conditions such as COVID-19 is being developed by the University of South Australia researchers in partnership with a Canadian tech company.
- Dubbed the ‘pandemic drone’ by researchers, the UAV will be fitted with a specialized sensor and computer vision system that can monitor temperature, heart and respiratory rates to detect people sneezing and coughing in crowds, offices,
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Bright.md Raises $8M to Expand AI-Powered, Asynchronous Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
Bright.md announced the close of an $8 million series C
to deliver critical capacity to support patient care in the midst of a COVID-19
pandemic and to help flatten the curve.
The funding will be used for a massive expansion effort
to bring non-video telehealth to aid frontline healthcare workers and the
patients they are treating.
Over six years, Bright.md has stretched $12.5 million to
advance its AI-powered automation platform for primary and urgent
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Orbita Expands COVID-19 Chatbot Screener to Support Front-Line Response Demands
What You Should Know:
- Orbita expands COVID-19 bot solutions to support new front-line response demands, reaching millions in need.
- Deployed to your website as a text chatbot, educates patients and screens symptoms seamlessly across web browsers with content from the CDC and other clinically vetted sources.
- In addition to the screener and knowledge base, the navigator tool directs patients to custom endpoints such as virtual visits, appointment scheduling, a live chat agent, or
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