As healthcare providers mobilize in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, their data is an important guide in helping them understand where their resources are being used and what their capacity is as new patients come in.

BURLINGTON, Mass. (PRWEB)
March 25, 2020

Dimensional Insight®, maker of Diver® Platform, the 2020 Best in KLAS healthcare business intelligence/analytics platform, today announced it is providing a complimentary COVID-19 toolkit to healthcare providers. This kit will provide critical measures or KPIs that hospitals and health systems need to track to better manage their COVID-19 patients, as well as the rest of their patient population. It will also include a capacity management dashboard that displays these current measures in an easy to understand format. In addition, the toolkit will include the logic to implement COVID-19 specific measures based on criteria provided by the CDC. This will result in better, more informed decisions in order to improve patient outcomes.

“As healthcare providers mobilize in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, their data is an important guide in helping them understand where their resources are being used and what their capacity is as new patients come in,” says Fred Powers, CEO and co-founder of Dimensional Insight. “We are glad to share our expertise with healthcare organizations and provide this toolkit to them when it’s needed most.”

Some of the measures that the new COVID-19 toolkit will contain are related to:

• COVID-19 specific (Confirmed COVID-19 cases, Potential COVID-19 cases, COVID-19 ALOS)
• Inpatient Units (Census, Occupancy %, Admissions, Discharges, ALOS)
• Outpatient Units (Census, Occupancy %, Arrivals, Admissions, Departures, Average Hours to Depart)
• Emergency Department (Census, Occupancy %, Arrivals, Departures, Admissions, Average Minutes, LWBT)
• Critical Care (Census, Occupancy %, Arrivals, Departures, Average ICU ALOS, Off service)
• Surgery Schedule (Utilization %, Cancelled Cases, Add-On Cases, Completed Cases, Average Case Minutes)
• PACU (Census, Occupancy %, Arrivals, Departures, Average PACU LOS Minutes, Off service)

To learn more about the Dimensional Insight COVID-19 toolkit, please visit https://www.dimins.com/COVID19.

About Dimensional Insight

Dimensional Insight® is a leading provider of analytics, data management, and performance management solutions, offering a complete portfolio of capabilities ranging from data integration and modeling to sophisticated reporting, analytics, and dashboards. The company is a seven-time Best in KLAS winner in healthcare business intelligence and analytics, most recently ranking #1 in 2020. Founded in 1989, Dimensional Insight has thousands of customer organizations worldwide. Dimensional Insight consistently ranks as a top performing analytics organization by customers and industry analysts in its core market segments including healthcare, manufacturing, and beverage alcohol.

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UNA Health Inc

Our goal was to utilize all of the resources at our disposal, including expertise from medical professionals with decades of experience, to put together a course for those who don’t have access to current data that will help their healthcare personnel understand the exposure risk.

MIAMI (PRWEB)
March 24, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to dominate every major news headline across the United States, UNA Health Inc. – a leading provider of mobile recruitment solutions for hospitals and healthcare staffing firms is pleased to announce the release of a coronavirus training course developed specifically for nurses and other healthcare personnel, which was supported and advised by Accountable Healthcare Staffing, a distinguished market leader in the healthcare staffing industry. The material focuses on the most important aspects surrounding COVID-19, including how it affects patient care and individual health. It is available as a free download to healthcare staffing agencies nationwide.

Typically, UNA’s annual competencies are only available through the company’s online platform. Given the sensitive nature of the pandemic that has gripped the nation, however, UNA’s management team felt that making it publicly available to all healthcare personnel was in the best interests of the industry – and country – as a whole.

“There is a lot of misinformation circulating around right now about COVID-19, including how it spreads, the severity of illness it causes, and to what extent it may spread in the United States,” stated Ron Gonzalez, UNA’s President and CEO and former CEO of Prophecy Healthcare. “Our goal was to utilize all of the resources at our disposal, including expertise from medical professionals with decades of experience, to put together a course for those who don’t have access to current data that will help their healthcare personnel understand the exposure risk.”

Included in the course is specific insight regarding symptoms and treatment, as well as preventative measures and CDC recommendations for infection prevention and control (IPC). In addition to this baseline material, there’s also a post-test to ensure healthcare personnel fully understand the core foundational basics of coronaviruses, and COVID-19 in particular.

“Healthcare personnel are on the front lines when caring for patients with confirmed or possible infection with COVID-19, and therefore have an increased risk of exposure,” added Merry Fort, Executive Vice President of Clinical Services at Accountable. “Since this is a new disease and there are still so many unknowns, our best defense is education, coupled with preventive measures, to help keep this critical group of individuals safe.”

About UNA Health Inc

UNA Health Inc is a leading provider of mobile recruitment solutions for hospitals and healthcare staffing firms. The UNA platform of fully customizable mobile solutions includes engaging onboarding tools, competency testing, skills checklists, annual competencies, credential management and position notifications – all in one client branded app. The platform seamlessly integrates with applicant tracking systems and hospital H.R. software, and provides end users with a truly mobile experience and the ability to effortlessly apply for positions with one-click, as well as upload credentials into our proprietary credential management portal.

UNA streamlines the hiring and credentialing process, and saves both recruiters and Q.A. teams worker hours, which translates into increased efficiencies, and ultimately, cost savings.

For more information, contact Ronald Gonzalez at ron@unahealth.co or 866-UNA-HLTH, 866-862-4584.

About Accountable Healthcare Staffing

Accountable Healthcare Staffing is a distinguished market leader in the workforce solutions and healthcare staffing industry with 20 office locations throughout the United States, servicing healthcare facilities in all 50 states. The company places healthcare professionals at nearly 2,000 clients that are comprised of major medical centers, community-based hospitals, outpatient clinics, sub-acute and rehab hospitals, correctional and long-term care facilities. The company designs and implements workforce solutions programs nationwide with partner clients. To learn more, go to http://www.ahcstaff.com.

For more information, contact Derek Sims at DerekSims@AHCStaff.com or 561-235-7824

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In 2020, there will be an estimated 1.8 million new cancer cases diagnosed and over 600,000 cancer deaths in the United States.

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
March 24, 2020

In the midst of several cancer awareness events this spring, Mediaplanet announces the launch of the March edition of “Future of Cancer Care.”

In 2020, there will be an estimated 1.8 million new cancer cases diagnosed and over 600,000 cancer deaths in the United States. Yet it is also the year in which a collective hope for a cure is stronger than ever, making it an exciting time in cancer treatment innovation. Between advancements in pharmaceutical research boosting disease-specific drug approvals and the growing industry of personalized medicine, a collective hope for a cure is stronger than ever. In response, this campaign will give healthcare professionals and patients the power of knowledge to manage their own healthcare and, most importantly, understand the current, most effective diagnosis and treatment options leading to a cure, both on a personal and global level.

Fran Drescher, star of “The Nanny” and the upcoming NBC sitcom “Indebted,” graces the cover of the print publication. Leading the charge in inspiring patients, families, and healthcare professionals, Drescher started the Cancer Schmancer nonprofit after her own battle with uterine cancer. Her mission is to drive awareness in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research, and care.

This became particularly important after Drescher’s own cancer was not properly diagnosed. “I started the Cancer Schmancer movement to empower people to transform from patients into medical consumers,” Drescher says. She wants everyone “to recognize the early warning whispers of the cancers that may affect them, and to know the tests that are available, because all too often they’re not even on the menu at the doctor’s office.”

The print component of “Future of Cancer Care” is distributed within today’s edition of USA Today in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C./Baltimore markets, with a circulation of approximately 200,000 copies and an estimated readership of 600,000. The digital component is distributed nationally through a vast social media strategy and across a network of top news sites and partner outlets. To explore the digital version of the campaign and more stories, click here.

This campaign was made possible with the support of American Society of Clinical Oncology, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Personalized Medicine Coalition, Prostate Cancer Foundation, The Lustgarten Foundation, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Kidney Cancer Association, Jimmy V. Foundation, Colorectal Cancer Alliance, City of Hope, UC Davis Health, Myriad Genetics, Sun Pharmaceuticals, Athenex Oncology, St. Luke’s University Health Network, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Fran Drescher, Mark Nofri, and more.

About Mediaplanet

Mediaplanet specializes in the creation of content marketing campaigns covering a variety of industries. We tell meaningful stories that educate our audience and position our clients as solution providers. Our unique ability to pair the right leaders with the right readers, through the right platforms, has made Mediaplanet a global content marketing powerhouse. Our award-winning stories have won the hearts of countless readers while serving as a valuable platform for brands and their missions. Just call us storytellers with a purpose. Please visit mediaplanet.com for more on who we are and what we do.

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Mac Harris

(646) 922-1418

mac.harris@mediaplanet.com

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This editorial feature will educate healthcare professionals and the public on the devastating effects tuberculosis still has on lives and economies around the world.

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
March 24, 2020

Helping to raise awareness for the World Tuberculosis Day effort amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Mediaplanet today announces the launch of its first-ever “Tuberculosis Awareness” campaign. This editorial feature will educate healthcare professionals and the public on the devastating effects tuberculosis still has on lives and economies around the world.

The digital campaign features a collection of articles written by expert contributors, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Lung Association, and the National TB Controllers Association. The articles, which can be found at: https://www.futureofpersonalhealth.com/campaign/infectious-diseases/ are distributed nationally through a vast social media strategy and across a network of top news sites and partner outlets.

In his submitted editorial, Philip LoBue, M.D., FACP, FCCP, director of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the CDC, releases new data and shares the CDC’s plan to support TB elimination. “To accelerate progress towards elimination, CDC supports a dual approach that includes diagnosing and treating every case of TB disease, and preventing future cases by expanding testing and treatment for people with latent TB infection (LTBI),” writes LoBue.

Dr. Albert Rizzo, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, urges people to take the same precautions to prevent TB as coronavirus and other respiratory infections. “Since TB is a respiratory infection, the way to prevent infection is to follow the tried and true recommendations that should be followed for any respiratory infection that is transmitted by aerosol or droplets from cough or sneeze,” Rizzo writes. “Avoid being around known sick individuals. Frequent hand-washing with soap and water especially after contacting surfaces or other individuals (i.e., handshaking). Avoid touching your mouth, nose, eyes, or face in general with unwashed hands.”

This campaign was made possible with the support of the CDC, WHO, National TB Controllers Association, American Lung Association, and Oxford Immunotec.

About Mediaplanet

Mediaplanet specializes in the creation of content marketing campaigns covering a variety of industries. We tell meaningful stories that educate our audience and position our clients as solution providers. Our unique ability to pair the right leaders with the right readers, through the right platforms, has made Mediaplanet a global content marketing powerhouse. Our award-winning stories have won the hearts of countless readers while serving as a valuable platform for brands and their missions. Just call us storytellers with a purpose. Please visit http://www.mediaplanet.com for more on who we are and what we do.

Press Contact:

Shannon Ruggiero

(646) 755-7962

shannon.ruggiero@mediaplanet.com

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Canopy can provide hospitals with the vital information they need to prevent a mass outbreak of the virus within their facility and it can be implemented remotely eliminating the need for our personnel to be on-site

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (PRWEB)
March 24, 2020

Critical Alert announced today it will extend its Canopy Software to assist in preventing mass outbreaks of COVID-19 within hospitals. The company will offer a free 6-month trial to aid in the fight against the virus.

When dealing with a pandemic, time is of the essence. Identifying times, places, and caregivers that have interacted with a particular individual can be the difference between preventing the spread of an infectious disease and a mass outbreak within a healthcare facility.

Many hospitals have antiquated nurse call systems with limited or no reporting capabilities. Critical Alert’s Canopy software application eliminates these limitations. Canopy aggregates data from any nurse call system that has a data output mechanism and provides the ability to assess patient and staff interactions by person, room, unit or multi-tenant enterprise. In essence, Canopy can be utilized and integrated with a hospital’s current nurse call hardware.

“We are here to support those who are on the frontlines of this pandemic,” stated John Elms, CEO of Critical Alert. “Canopy can provide hospitals with the vital information they need to prevent a mass outbreak of the virus within their facility and it can be implemented remotely eliminating the need for our personnel to be on-site,” continued Elms.

Please call Critical Alert at (888) 846-8346 or email Canopy@CriticalAlert.com to learn more.

About Critical Alert

Critical Alert offers a solution set of enterprise class, software-based products, services and strategies that enable hospitals and healthcare enterprises to give a voice to their patients, empower their clinical staff with actionable intelligence, unburden their support and IT teams and save money. CommonPath Enterprise, our software-driven patient communications platform includes UL-1069 nurse call, alarm management & event notification, patient experience monitoring, advanced clinical analytics and a portfolio of integrated partner offerings.

For more information, visit: http://www.criticalalert.com. Follow Critical Alert on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Critical Alert is a trademark of Critical Alert. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

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Block Buddy Pro is partnering with Global Response Management to provide education about regional anesthesia nerve blocks to high-risk, low-resource areas across the globe with their mobile app.

Block Buddy Pro is partnering with Global Response Management to provide education about ultrasound guided nerve blocks to high-risk, low-resource areas. The Block Buddy Pro mobile app will be utilized by GRM medics in the field when performing life-saving operations across the globe.

CLEVELAND (PRWEB)
March 24, 2020

Block Buddy, the company behind the popular Block Buddy Pro mobile application, is proud to announce their new partnership with Global Response Management.

Block Buddy Pro is a mobile application that provides education for anesthesia providers about performing ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks and point of care ultrasound (POCUS). The app contains lessons with videos, detailed images, and descriptions for dozens of different nerve blocks, along with various other tools and resources.

Global Response Management (GRM) is a medical not-for-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides emergency and trauma care in low-resource and high-risk areas across the globe. The Block Buddy Pro app will be utilized by GRM medics in the field when performing life-saving operations and procedures. Importantly, the app offers offline access that medics will use in areas with little to no WiFi access.

To learn more about Global Response Management, and to learn how you can contribute, visit global-response.org.

Block Buddy Pro can be purchased in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. To learn more about Block Buddy, please visit myblockbuddy.com.

About the Owners

The creators of Block Buddy, Scott Urigel and Jeff Molter are highly skilled and respected anesthesia providers who share a passion for providing their expertise and knowledge to areas around the world that may not have access to quality medical education. Jeff and Scott are committed to improving the lives of patients and increasing the knowledge of their peers.

Both Scott and Jeff have received numerous awards and accolades for their service over the years. Most recently, Scott Urigel was honored with the Alice Magaw Outstanding Clinician Award at the 2019 American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Annual Conference. And Jeff Molter received the CRNA of the Year Award at the 2019 Ohio State Association of Nurse Anesthetists’ (OSANA) Conference. To learn more about Scott and Jeff, visit myblockbuddy.com/category/instructors/.

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“In a healthcare crisis, access to critical data and the insights derived from that data saves lives,” said Dan Low, MD and associate professor at University of Washington School of Medicine. “MDmetrix’s COVID-19 Mission Control is vital for quickly improving care and protecting lives.

SEATTLE (PRWEB)
March 24, 2020

MDmetrix, a clinical performance management platform, announced today that the COVID-19 Mission Control for Emergency Medicine will now be offered free of subscription fees to hospitals nationwide. The MDmetrix platform transforms care by allowing healthcare professionals to view outcomes across patients through leveraging real-world data from electronic medical records. With the push of a button, clinicians and hospital administrators can visualize, evaluate, and monitor patient care and clinical performance so they can quickly adapt and improve care across teams, conditions and protocols.

The COVID-19 module will allow hospitals to surface insights that will improve care, optimize use of crucial resources, and better understand the virus and how it may be changing. For example, the COVID-19 module will allow healthcare professionals to quickly answer questions such as:

-How many patients were screened for COVID-19 today? How many of those actually tested positive?

-Is the time interval between symptom onset and presentation getting shorter? Longer?

-Are more/fewer COVID-19 patients arriving who contracted the virus from a known contact?

-How many patients needed escalation to the ICU?

-Of patients who escalated to the ICU, how many needed a ventilator? What were their characteristics (e.g., demographic profile, lab results)?

The COVID-19 Mission Control is already deployed at UW Medicine, which includes the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center, the only Level I Trauma Center in Washington State. The platform will be implemented at other hospitals throughout the nation over the coming days.

“In a healthcare crisis, access to critical data and the insights derived from that data saves lives,” said Dan Low, MD and associate professor at University of Washington School of Medicine. “MDmetrix’s COVID-19 Mission Control is vital for seeing and comparing patient outcomes across our hospital and healthcare system. MDmetrix empowers our clinicians to quickly improve care and protect lives.”

“Our team at MDmetrix is committed to doing all we can to fight this global health crisis,” said Warren Ratliff, chief executive officer at MDmetrix. “We are working around the clock to provide critical technology support to our healthcare professionals who are on the front lines of this effort.”

MDmetrix’s Mission Control platform has enabled substantial healthcare improvements since 2016, including enabling the first opioid-free surgery center in Bellevue, Washington. MDmetrix’s tremendous impact on the quality and cost of patient care has been documented in more than 30 academic publications and recognitions in the past year.

About MDmetrix

MDmetrix is a clinical performance management platform that serves hospitals and surgery centers. By empowering medical leaders and frontline clinicians to visualize, evaluate, and monitor clinical and workflow outcomes, MDmetrix enables providers to improve care and lower costs, transforming clinical operations. Founded in Seattle in 2016, MDmetrix was created by a team of clinicians who saw the need to view outcomes across patients to quickly advance care. To learn more, please visit http://www.mdmetrix.com.

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Dr. Kaliq Chang

The various health professionals who typically treat back pain – who include chiropractors and medical doctors specializing in interventional pain management of the spine – tend to have very different training and techniques at their disposal to treat these patients.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. (PRWEB)
March 24, 2020

Imagine this scenario: You’ve done everything you can think of to ease your back pain, including over-the-counter medications, ice and heat, and gentle stretches and exercises. But your back pain just won’t go away. From whom do you seek treatment – a chiropractor or a medical doctor?

Several fundamental differences in training, approach and treatment options should influence your choice, says Kaliq Chang, MD, of Atlantic Spine Center. While the National Institutes of Health points out that back pain (especially the lower back) is extremely common, affecting about 80% of Americans at some point in their lives, deciding whom to seek help from isn’t necessarily easy, Dr. Chang says.

“The various health professionals who typically treat back pain – who include chiropractors and medical doctors specializing in interventional pain management of the spine – tend to have very different training and techniques at their disposal to treat these patients,” explains Dr. Chang, an interventional pain management specialist. “Choosing the provider who’s the best fit for your individual situation requires understanding these differences.”

Training and approach differ

What are the training and certification differences separating chiropractors and doctors practicing spine medicine? Dr. Chang explains:

Chiropractors diagnose and treat primarily back and neck pain. To do so, they:

• Attend a graduate-level chiropractic program involving an average of 4 years of education
• Complete a 1-year internship at a college clinic
• Take board licensing tests

Spine doctors can include MDs (medical doctors) and DOs (doctors of osteopathic medicine) who specialize in surgery, neurology, orthopedics, spine medicine and/or anesthesiology and may focus on diagnosing and treating back pain and/or a variety of other medical problems. To do so, they:

• Attend medical or osteopathic medical school for 4 years
• Complete a 3- to 7-year residency within their specialty
• Possibly complete a spine fellowship or other specialized fellowship lasting several more years
• Take board certification and licensing tests

Treatment options vary

As with certification and licensing requirements, treatment options that chiropractors can offer compared to medical doctors also vary greatly, Dr. Chang notes.

Chiropractors are able to offer drug-free, non-invasive treatments. The bulk of chiropractic care centers around spinal manipulation, but they can also help address pain in areas such as the foot, elbow, shoulder and neck. They may also use techniques involving light, ultrasound, water, massage, electricity and heat therapy.

“Most chiropractors spend much of their time ‘adjusting’ the spine through manual movements to address patients’ lower back pain, neck pain or whiplash-related problems,” Dr. Chang says.

Medical doctors who specialize in spine care, by contrast, may also manipulate the spine – but they’re also able to offer a broader and more intensive array of treatments. These doctors can prescribe medications or physical therapy; inject steroids into problematic joints; and perform spine surgery addressing a host of back pain-causing conditions in and around the spinal cord.

“Recent years have seen spine surgery becoming increasingly specialized within neurosurgery and orthopedics, and these days surgeons will often concentrate most of their practice on spine surgery,” Dr. Chang says. “Because of this, surgical techniques have become increasingly minimally invasive, improving outcomes and contributing to less pain and quicker recovery in patients.”

“There’s a place in back pain treatment for both chiropractors and medical doctors,” he adds. “Just know what each can offer so you can be the best advocate for your own care.”

Atlantic Spine Center is a nationally recognized leader for endoscopic spine surgery with several locations in NJ and NYC. http://www.atlanticspinecenter.com, http://www.atlanticspinecenter.nyc, 855-368-5272

Kaliq Chang, MD, is an interventional pain management specialist, double board-certified in interventional pain management and anesthesiology, at Atlantic Spine Center.

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Datex free guide

CLEARWATER, Fla. (PRWEB)
March 24, 2020

Software developer Datex recently introduced a free guide to help companies not simply survive but thrive in volatile economic times. The guide introduces the survey of 3,900 respondents conducted by Bain & Company to develop an understanding of how businesses fared during and after an economic recession based on the company’s reaction and preparedness.

The survey determined that companies that prepared in advance for an economic downturn were better positioned to gain market share and expedite growth and profitability. Investing in new technology such as a cutting-edge warehouse management system is one accepted strategy. Advance preparation and leveraging new IT capabilities can help supply chain businesses by avoiding the need to react quickly in a crisis, providing more and often better quality data for action and decision making as well as more effective tools for managing operations.

The guide also examines how relying on outdated technology can hamper a company’s ability to compete and win business. Companies still using outdated legacy warehouse management systems report inability to keep pace with competitors. Leveraging a leading-edge WMS can provide distinct advantages and help supply chain companies save on time, money and labor. The savings, increased productivity and efficiency can help make warehouse and 3PL operators win and retain business.

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