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Sharecare Creates Free Embeddable COVID-19 Chatbot Screener

by Fred Pennic 04/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Sharecare Creates Free Embeddable COVID-19 Chatbot Screener

What You Need to Know - Sharecare creates a free interactive, clinically validated COVID-19 screener -- that can be embedded on any organization’s website as a tool to initially screen for a person’s risk of COVID-19.  - The screener is a dynamic COVID-19 consult algorithm based on clinical guidelines from the CDC, WHO and other major medical organizations as well as primary research studies from medical literature. - Sharecare has partnered with NTT DATA on this interactive
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Why COVID-19 Underscores The Importance of Social Determinants of Health

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 04/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Why COVID-19 Underscores Importance of Social Determinants of Health

Google “Social Determinants of Health” and one will quickly discover a kind of litany of data pointing to a certain definition of “health” defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,” and socioeconomic barriers, which may prohibit equitable access to good health and wellness (Healthcare) more completely among diverse populations. Nevertheless, the heart of the matter
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Health IT’s Vital Role in Controlling The Spread of COVID-19

by Drew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate 04/17/2020 Leave a Comment

vital role health IT will play in controlling the spread of COVID-19.

The healthcare system in the United States is becoming overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19 and there is no doubt that this epidemic will test the limits of healthcare delivery systems from end to end. Of course, at the present moment, everyone’s focus is (and rightly should be) on ensuring hospitals and healthcare workers have the appropriate equipment and protective gear they need to stay safe and adequately treat patients. That said, there are other IT considerations that should be taken into
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What Does The CARES Act Mean for Hospitals and Health Systems?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 04/15/2020 Leave a Comment

What Does the CARES Act Mean for Providers?

As of today, the coronavirus has infected almost 2 million worldwide and caused the deaths of more than 125,000 people (Worldometer data as of 12:15 PM on April 14, 2020). In the United States, the relevant figures are more than 600,000 infected and north of 25,000 deceased. Without successful social distancing, those numbers could be dramatically worse. And still, they are dwarfed by the massive numbers associated with the economic impact of the coronavirus and the illness it causes,
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Apple, Google Partner on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Tech: 5 things to Know

by Fred Pennic 04/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Apple, Google Partner on Bluetooth-Enabled COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology

What You Should Know: - Apple and Google announce a joint partnership to enable the use of Bluetooth-enabled contact tracing technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus. - Apple and Google will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing.  Apple and Google announce a joint partnership to enable the use of Bluetooth
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HCA, Google Cloud Partner to Launch COVID-19 Open Data Platform for Hospitals

by Jasmine Pennic 04/07/2020 Leave a Comment

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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Philips Enables Providers to Remotely Screen and Monitor Patients with COVID-19

by Fred Pennic 04/01/2020 Leave a Comment

Philips Enables Providers to Remotely Screen and Monitor Patients with COVID-19

What You Should Know: - Philips provides healthcare institutions with telehealth solution to process high volume coronavirus-related healthcare requests via online screening and supports healthcare providers in the use of external call centers to offer the correct care to patients - If medically justified, patients infected with COVID-19 can be remotely monitored via automated questionnaires about their home situation and state of health Royal Philips announced that it can help
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SyTrue Offers Free AI-based Solutions to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Jasmine Pennic 04/01/2020 Leave a Comment

SyTrue

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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6 Benefits of Telemedicine in Managing the Diabetes Epidemic

by Dean Smith, MD, Chief Medical Officer for GlobalMed 03/30/2020 Leave a Comment

Benefits of Telemedicine in Managing the Diabetes Epidemic

The American Diabetes Association reveals that 9.4% of the American population has diabetes, and with numbers that high nearly all Americans have a friend or family member with the disease. However, many Americans are not aware that telehealth can enable diabetic patients to manage their condition—treatment that would have otherwise been difficult to come by for rural patients with limited access to care. With such a high prevalence among the population, providing care regardless of proximity
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Travel Nurse Pay Nearly Doubles Nationwide from Coronavirus Outbreak

by Fred Pennic 03/27/2020 Leave a Comment

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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