COVID-19 Report
We’ve rounded up some of the latest news and announcements pertaining to the coronavirus and the healthcare industry.
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Always The Bridesmaid, Public Health Rarely Spotlighted Until It’s Too Late
By Julie Rovner – The U.S. is in the midst of both a public health crisis and a health care crisis. Yet most people aren’t aware these are two distinct things. And the response for each is going to be crucial.
Insurance in the Time of COVID-19
My COVID reading this week took me down the rabbit hole of insurance. Are health policies covering COVID related claims? With unemployment number skyrocketing so is the uninsured numbers. We aren’t driving our cars so what about our car insurance? Are life insurance policies paying out on COVID deaths? What about business interruption policies?
3 Recommendations for COVID-19 Interoperability and Data Exchange
By Drew Ivan – Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy published a whitepaper, Data Interoperability and Exchange to Support COVID-19 Containment. Authors, Farzad Mostashari and Mark McClellan, lay out three strategies to help guide policymakers around the globe as they address the COVID-19 pandemic:.
Domestic Abuse Spikes During COVID-19: The Role Healthcare Professionals Can Play
By Kayla Matthews – The COVID-19 pandemic led many officials to establish shelter-in-place orders for their jurisdictions. These regulations intend to keep people safe and curb the spread of the virus. What happens when someone’s home may be a dangerous place?
AMA Issues New Principles to Restore Trust in Data Privacy
Responding to Americans’ growing reluctance to share health data and unresolved tension over eroding personal privacy, the American Medical Association issued new privacy principles supporting an individual’s right to control, access, and delete personal data collected about them.
Insight into FDA’s Revised Policy on Antibody Tests: Prioritizing Access and Accuracy
By Anand Shah MD & Jeff Shuren MD – As we at the FDA have said before, every step we have taken in our approach to COVID-19 testing has been a careful balancing of risks and benefits – all done to anticipate and meet continuing and evolving public health needs as we combat this virus.
Data Shows U.S. Hospitals Are Losing $1.4B in Daily Revenue, Due to Patient Volume Decline
Hospital patient volumes dropped dramatically and quickly since the end of February as both patients and doctors reprioritized or delayed normal services. According to data gathered by the Crowe Revenue Cycle Analytics software, with the exception of those in New York City and San Francisco…
COVID-19 Report
We’ve rounded up some of the latest news and announcements pertaining to the coronavirus and the healthcare industry.