What You Should Know: - Scammers may be trafficking counterfeit or faulty protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 in what is now known as the “grey market.” - Premier outlines five common types of COVID-19 grey market scams for hospitals to avoid and key best practices to avoid them as hospital brace for the surge in COVID-19 patients. Healthcare providers are working around the clock to safely care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the last thing they need to
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HCA, Google Cloud Partner to Launch COVID-19 Open Data Platform for Hospitals
What You Should Know: - HCA Healthcare announces a partnership with Google Cloud and SADA on new COVID-19 open data platform named the COVID-19 National Response Portal to help communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. - The COVID-19 National Response Portal will help accelerate analysis and response by aggregating data on ICU bed and ventilator utilization, testing results, and total number of patient visits to America’s hospital systems. Nashville, TN-based HCA Healthcare,
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COVID-19 Patient Registry Launches to Monitor Symptomatic and Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know: - Recruitment for the first comprehensive COVID-19 national patient registry opens today for symptomatic and asymptomatic patients in the six-months following diagnosis. - Patient data will be collected remotely for a clinical study using a blood test and a new mobile app, Obvio-19 from ObvioHealth. ObvioHealth, a digital research company, announces the launch of a COVID-19 patient registry named Obvio-19 to monitor COVID-19 prevalence, symptoms and immune
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Analysis: Applying AI in the Fight Against The Coronavirus
Drug discovery is a notoriously long, complex and expensive process requiring the concerted efforts of the world’s brightest minds. The complexity in understanding human physiology and molecular mechanisms is increasing with every new research paper published and for every new compound tested. As the world is facing a new challenge in trying to both adapt to and defend itself against the coronavirus, artificial intelligence is offering new hope that a cure might be developed faster than ever
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White House, IBM Partner to Fight COVID-19 Using Supercomputers
What You Should Know: - The White House Office of Science and Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy teams up with IBM, and others to fight the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) using supercomputers. - The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium pooling supercomputing capacity to help researchers everywhere better understand COVID-19, its treatments, and potential cures. - These high-performance computing systems allow researchers to run very large numbers of
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COVID-19’s Impact on Telehealth & HIPAA Regulations
The declaration of COVID19 as a pandemic and the United States declaring a national emergency to help contain and enhance treatment access have resulted in a number of changes to ease potential regulatory burdens or barriers in healthcare. Like so much happening as a result of the pandemic, the changes have the potential to fundamentally change the healthcare industry not just during the time of the emergency declaration. Of particular note are coordinated announcements from various agencies
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Stanford Alumni Scientists, Physicians Launch StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force
What You Should Know: - More than 1500 Stanford faculty and alumni announced the launch of StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force featuring 70+ StartX Med Innovators with medical breakthroughs for the prevention, diagnostics, and treatment of coronavirus mobilize efforts to fast-track public health needs during the pandemic. - The StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force will collaborate on outreach to government agencies, regulatory bodies and healthcare systems in the interest of public health for
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Suki Raises $20M to Expand AI-powered, Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant for Doctors
What You Need to Know: - Today, Suki announced a Series B funding round of $20 million, led by new investor Flare Capital Partners and including top investors like First Round and Venrock. - In just two years, Suki has established its product as a leading solution to address the urgent crisis of physician burnout and is already trusted by independent and group practices as well as leading systems like Sutter Health and Ascension. - Suki will use the funding to expand its user base
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Ginger Acquires Technology Assets of Mental Health App LiveBetter
What You Need to Know: - Ginger has acquired the technology assets of LiveBetter, a company that brings free mental health and well-being support to anyone through a highly engaging, conversational app. - LiveBetter reaches over 10,000 users and continues to reach more individuals every day - young adults, the unemployed, new parents, and the homeless. Ginger, on-demand access to behavioral health coaching, video therapy, video psychiatry, and self-guided content has acquired the
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The Hard Truth About Boosting Patient Acquisition
Technology giants and other non-traditional players are moving into the healthcare market, giving consumers a host of new options for how and where they obtain services. Everyone from Apple and Amazon to G.E. and Berkshire Hathaway are disrupting the market by introducing new delivery models that emphasize simplicity, transparency and positive digital experiences. Traditional players will need to recalibrate how they build market share due to this new consumerism threat. In fact, a
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