As part of the CARES Act, the FCC’s https://www.fcc.gov/coronavirus new $200 Million “COVID-19 Telehealth Program” will provide immediate support to healthcare facilities and patients across the country. The separate Connected Care Pilot Program will study the long-term role for telehealth. …Continue reading
Partnership to Offer Telenursing
TeleHealth Services https://www.telehealth.com located in Cary North Carolina and Banyan Medical Systems https://banyamed.com, have launched a new partnership to provide audiovisual telenursing solutions. The telenursing solutions will be provided at no cost to Telehealth Services’ client hospitals to assist in carrying for COVID-19 patients. …Continue reading
Detecting the Virus Causing COVID-19
Healthcare workers and hospital staff are working to process patient tests to detect the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic along with two biologists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) https://www.jhuapl.edu, a not-for-profit division of Johns Hopkins University. …Continue reading
Strengthening Public Health
Kaiser Permanente https://about.kaiserpermanente.org is contributing $1 million to public health organizations and collaborating with the CDC Foundation to strengthen the U.S public health infrastructure and response systems to stop the spread of COVID-19. …Continue reading
HHS Awards $100 Million to Health Centers
HHS through HRSA awarded $100 million to 1,381 health centers in the U.S with funding to be provided by the “Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020.” …Continue reading
Telemedicine Solutions in Israel
The Sheba Medical Center https://www.shebaonline.org in Israel is moving forward with digital healthcare by using telemedicine to monitor patients in quarantine and using technology to treat patients with COVID-19 remotely. …Continue reading
Survey: Healthcare Execs & Stakeholders
On March 27, Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com reported on the results of their survey obtained from 230 healthcare industry stakeholders. The survey results were from 59% of C-level or mid-level executives at healthcare firms along with 43 institutional investor clients as to their expectations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. …Continue reading