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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Public Health
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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Wolters Kluwer Launches Global COVID-19 Search Intensity Monitoring Map
What You Should Know:
- Wolters Kluwer arms coronavirus efforts with the launch of a global COVID-19 Search Intensity Monitoring Map using UpToDate that shows how often COVID-19 topics are searched by doctors, nurses and other clinicians globally.
- Cross-disciplinary teams at Wolters Kluwer developed the interactive map by analyzing how often specific questions related to COVID-19 are searched by doctors, nurses and other clinicians globally. This leverages global search activity
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Charges for All Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients May Reach Up to $1.4 Trillion
What You
Should Know:
- FAIR Health brief finds the total costs for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients range from a low of $362 billion in charges and $139 billion in estimated allowed amounts to a high of $1.449 trillion in charges and $558 billion in estimated allowed amounts, depending on the incidence rate of the infection in the US population.
- The total average charge per COVID-19 patient requiring an inpatient stay is $73,300 and the total average estimated allowed amount per
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Scripps Launches App-Based Study Using Wearable Data to Predict Virus Outbreaks
What You Should Know:
- The Scripps Research Translational Institute launched DETECT, an app-based research study that will analyze wearable data shared by users with the goal of being able to more quickly detect fast-spreading viral illnesses, like flu and coronavirus.
- Early detection is critical for effective public health response to infectious disease outbreaks and for improving treatments. DETECT connects with smartwatches and activity trackers, including Fitbit devices,
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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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Amazon, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain, Others Form COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
What You Should Know:
The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition is a
collaborative private-industry response to the novel coronavirus.
Its mission is to save lives by providing real-time
learning to preserve healthcare delivery and protect U.S. populations.
Coalition partners include Arcadia.io, athenahealth, Buoy
Health, the CommonWell Health Alliance, Epic, HCA Healthcare, Intermountain
Healthcare, LabCorp, Leavitt Partners, MassChallenge, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft,
MITRE, Rush
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At-Home Respiratory Coronavirus Test Now Available to Texas Residents
What You Should Know:
- Wheel and imaware launch the first and only clinician-administered home-based COVID-19 lab testing in the nation, priced at $135.
- A trained healthcare professional will collect the sample at the patient's home to reduce the risk of false negatives associated with self-swabbing.
- CDC-authorized home-based tests can be delivered the same day, then Wheel clinicians trained in COVID-19 protocols are in contact with patients who test positive to
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Validic Launches Real-Time, COVID-19 Remote Symptom Monitoring Tool
What You Should Know:
- Validic launches COVID-19 rapid deployment remote monitoring tool for employers and healthcare organizations to monitor employees, patients, and other individuals at scale for emerging symptoms of COVID-19.
- COVID-19 Home Monitoring tracks a person’s body temperature, difficulty breathing, cough frequency, and oxygen saturation.
- Triggered alerts will notify program administrators or clinicians as a person’s symptoms worsen, improve, or remain static – or as
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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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