Coronavirus

Medicaid Needs Health IT Infrastructure Update for Enrollment Bump

by Samantha McGrail

Although the COVID-19 pandemic exposed many of the weaknesses in the healthcare system, one of the most prominent weakness that has affected the country is antiquated health IT infrastructure in the...

Diagnostic Robotics, Mayo Clinic Bring Triage Platform to Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Diagnostic Robotics recently announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to implement its artificial intelligence-driven prediction and digital triage platform. The platform will supplement the...

NIH to Collect Patient Data with New COVID-19 Analytics Platform

by Samantha McGrail

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched a new COVID-19 analytics platform that will provided a centralized, secure enclave to analyze medical record data from coronavirus patients to...

Cloud Database of COVID-19 Patient Data to Aid Pandemic Efforts

by Samantha McGrail

Clinicians, informatics, and other biomedical researchers will partner with HHS to leverage medical records and turn patient data into effective COVID-19 treatments through a more secure cloud-based...

Artificial Intelligence Helps Detect Early COVID-19 Symptoms

by Samantha McGrail

The West Virginia Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) and WVU Medicine, along with Oura Health, are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to detect COVID-19 symptoms nearly three days before...

SADA Launches Data Sharing Portal to Aid in COVID-19 Recovery

by Samantha McGrail

SADA recently announced the official launch of the National Response Portal (NRP), which is designed to boost efficient data sharing among healthcare providers and policymakers during the COVID-19...

AVIA Opens COVID-19 Platform to All Healthcare Organizations

by Samantha McGrail

AVIA recently announced the opening of its COVID-19 Resource Hub to all US hospitals US, designed to provide digital health communities and resources. Through its new partnerships with the American...

Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Identifies COVID-19 in CT Scans

by Samantha McGrail

Researchers at Mount Sinai are the first in the country to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect COVID-19 in patients based on CT scans of the chest combined with clinical data, according to a...

New Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to Tackle COVID-19 Challenges

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft recently announced its first industry-specific cloud offering that allows organizations to engage in more proactive ways with their patients and gives caregivers the tools to improve workflow...

HHS Offers $5M for Studying Use of Health IT During Pandemic

by Samantha McGrail

HHS recently announced a new funding opportunity announcement through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that will award $5 million to support research efforts gauging provider use...

Surveillance Workstation Provides Remote Care to COVID-19 Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) recently deployed Capsule’s Ventilated Patient Surveillance (VPS) workstation to provide effective remote care to COVID-19 ventilated patients. Yale Health...

IBM Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Automate IT Infrastructure

by Samantha McGrail

IBM recently launched new capabilities and services powered by artificial intelligence to help chief information officers (CIOs) help their businesses recover and restart in the wake of the COVID-19...

Data Interoperability and Exchange Recommendations During COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy released short-term steps to improve data interoperability and exchange as states prepare to re-open. The center convened multi-stakeholder working groups to...

Cleveland Clinic, Epic Use Remote Patient Monitoring for COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

Cleveland Clinic and Epic recently launched a remote monitoring tool to allow clinicians to quickly respond to COVID-19 patients.  The initiative will manage care in a quick and efficient manner...

IBM Blockchain Helps Combat COVID-19 Supply Chain Shortages

by Samantha McGrail

IBM recently launched a blockchain-based network designed to help government agencies and healthcare organizations identify suppliers and address COVID-19 supply chain shortages. The initiative, IBM...

Apple Mobility Data Tool to Track User Movement, COVID-19 Spread

by Samantha McGrail

Apple recently released a mobility data trends tool from Apple Maps to track and mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The app may be useful to governments and health authorities as a...

Google Cloud Launches Healthcare API During the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud recently announced it created a Cloud Healthcare API to improve data interoperability and give providers real-time access to health data during the COVID-19 pandemic. The API will allow...

Apple, Google Leverage Bluetooth for COVID-19 Contact Tracing

by Samantha McGrail

Google and Apple recently announced a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies bolster COVID-19 contact tracing. Across the world, governments and...

Google Cloud Unveils COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform For Providers

by Samantha McGrail

HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud recently launched a COVID-19 data sharing platform to enable the exchange of key information during the pandemic.  The COVID-19 National Response Portal, operated...

Working From Home Exposes New Billing Data Security Threats

by Samantha McGrail

Organizations are facing significant data security risks as stay-at-home orders increase and the first major remote billing cycle is carried out remotely, according to the Association of IT Asset...