We’re in throes of a global pandemic. Healthcare providers must focus on fighting COVID-19, but we can’t afford to ignore the reason we’re going into this fight blind. Our best weapon is our own healthcare data. We are going to learn many things from this pandemic, not least of which is that the way we thought about data ownership over the previous decade needs to change. Pandemics represent a system-wide attack on healthcare. Our best responses rely on social distancing, telemedicine, and
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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
COVID-19 Vulnerability Index Identifies Urban Populations at High Risk
What You Should Know: - RS21 has developed the Urban Health Vulnerability Index (UHVI) to help local governments and health planners identify urban populations at high risk for COVID-19, including older adults and people with serious medical conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and lung disease. - The UHVI tool uncovers which parts of our communities could be most affected by a COVID-19 outbreak and allows local governments to anticipate where resources may be needed the
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AMA Launches Virtual Panel Discussion on Telemedicine Amid COVID-19
What You Should Know: - The American Medical Association launches a virtual panel discussion today focused on telemedicine and COVID-19. - The discussion is hosted by the AMA’s Physician Innovation Network (PIN), an online networking community of physicians, digital health companies and entrepreneurs. The American Medical Association is helping mobilize a dramatic increase in the nation’s telemedicine capacity through its advocacy on Medicare policy changes
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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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TransformativeMed Offers Free EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Tracking and Workflow Solution to Seattle-Based Hospitals
What You Should Know: - TransformativeMed offers free COVID-19 tracking and workflow solution to Seattle-based hospitals and medical centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. - The application works with electronic health records to track patient medical tests; helps with coronavirus patient workflows. - COVID-19/CORES is already being used at UW Medicine, which includes the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center. TransformativeMed, which transforms
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Microsoft, Adaptive, Providence Partner to Decode COVID-19 Immune Response
What You Should Know: - Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies have expanded their partnership to map the human immune response to COVID-19 and advance our understanding of the disease. - Data from this study will be made available through an open-access portal to help researchers, public health organizations and industry improve diagnostics, help triage patients based on the immune response to the disease, and inform vaccine discovery for COVID-19. - Other industry leaders including
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New Website Helps People Find Nearby COVID-19 Testing Centers Nationwide
What You Should Know: - Chicago-based technology company Evive launched the Evive.Care website, which is helping people find COVID-19 (Coronavirus) testing centers near them. - The Evive.Care search tool allows people to enter their state and county and then displays a list of nearby COVID-19 testing centers. - There are currently 240+ testing centers on the website across approximately 200 counties in the U.S.—those numbers are constantly evolving. Evive, a Chicago, IL-based
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