What You Should Know:
- Resilinc and Premier Inc. launch healthcare exchange to help hospitals access supplies and ease shortages during COVID-19.
- The exchange platform, in collaboration with Stanford Medicine, will launch in mid-April and is now accepting applications for providers and industry groups to join at no cost.
- Providers can apply to join The Exchange in under 10 minutes at https://theexchange.resilinc.com/healthcare/pre-registration/, and each provider can list items
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AHA, AVIA Launch Free COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse to Support Members on Front-Line
What You Should Know:
- Today the American Hospital Association (AHA) and AVIA, a digital transformation partner for healthcare organizations across the country, announced the launch of the COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse.
- This online tool, free to AHA members, will enable 5,000 hospitals across the country to determine the types of digital tools they need immediately to confront COVID-19 clinically and operationally and provide guidance on how they can scale the new solutions they
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SyTrue Offers Free AI-based Solutions to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- SyTrue offers its free AI-based solutions free of charge to qualified global public health organizations to help researchers and governments battling the COVID-19 pandemic
- SyTrue has developed solutions that enable identification of disease trends, early detection, and interventions, safety-monitoring of medicinal therapies, COVID-19 knowledge extraction, and accelerated identification of patient cohorts.
The solution will support efforts to identify
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Prevent the Oncoming Medical Information Crisis
“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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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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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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GetWellNetwork, Cerner Deploy Free COVID-19 Solutions to All Clients
What You Should Know:
- GetWellNetwork deploys complimentary COVID-19 management modules to millions of clinicians on Cerner to manage and slow the spread of the virus and impact millions of patients.
- The new solutions are designed to help patients track symptoms at home and communicate with care teams as they self-monitor or self-quarantine. The tools also help providers streamline outreach and education to large numbers of patients, monitor symptoms and triage patients to the right
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COVID-19: 5 Steps for Health IT Teams to Accommodate New Demands
The rapid escalation of COVID-19 patient cases has created new challenges for healthcare organizations to scale up testing and care services, while also reducing risk for non-critical patients or care workers. Healthcare IT professionals are being asked to digitally transform overnight, in supporting remote workers, telemedicine, outdoor triage tents, and a surge in patients and connected devices. Here are five key steps for healthcare IT departments to take in order to accommodate the new
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New COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map Uses Social Determinants of Health to Identify Populations At Greater Risk
What You Should Know:
- Jvion Launches COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map to identify the social determinants of health (SDOH) that put populations at greater risk, informing community planning and resource allocation to proactively mitigate the risk to vulnerable populations.
- The Community Vulnerability Map allows users to search and drill down into communities to view populations most vulnerable for severe outcomes if infected with a COVID-like virus and the socioeconomic
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