Thoughts from Credit Suisse’s Therapeutics Team https://www.credit-suisse.com. Once a vaccine is approved than vaccinations can begin. The first group to get the vaccine will be front-line healthcare workers and long term care facility residents, essential workers, and the third group will be adults with high risk medical conditions, over 65. (more…)
App for Digital Contact Tracing
The National Science Foundation (NSF) https://nsf.gov has awarded a one year Rapid Response Research (RAPID) NSF Grant for $120,000, to enable engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) https://www.wpi.edu and Virginia Tech https://vt.edu, to collaborate on a smartphone app to help conduct contact tracing to contain the spread of COVID-19. (more…)
VA Driving Digital Transformation
The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology https://www.oit.va.gov recently published the report Driving Digital Transformation at VA, a FY20 Year in Review. OIT is focused on changing the way the agency procures services by taking a “buy first” approach to new systems, not build their own applications, and rely more on cloud, managed and shared services along with commercial off-the-shelf products. (more…)
A Conference Call with eHealth
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com called eHealth (EHTH) https://www.ehealthinsurance.com company is making a capital allocation choice by pursuing higher-quality enrollments (i.e.) higher LTVs) in Q4 as opposed to just driving enrollment growth as in Q3. (more…)
DARPA’s Contract Awards to Universities
Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) affects 337,000 Americans with serious SCIs as they often face lifelong paralysis and increased long term morbidity due to factors such as sepsis and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. (more…)
Holistic Approach to Patient Care
Health Partners of Western Ohio, https://hpwohio.org (Health Partners) a FQHC, offers comprehensive, Pharmacist-led Medication Therapy (MTM) and Disease Management (DM) services to at-risk patients as part of an integrated multidisciplinary holistic approach to patient care. (more…)
CMS Developing Care at Home
CMS is taking steps to provide care to patients outside a traditional hospital setting amid a rising number of COVID-19 hospitalizations across the country. These steps are building on CMS’s previous actions to expand the availability of telehealth, healthcare services that need to be provided outside a hospital setting while maintaining capacity to continue critical non-COVID-19 care. (more…)