LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

In the United States alone, more than one million coronavirus (COVID-19) cases have been confirmed — approximately one-third of all cases worldwide. To help medical providers navigate this health crisis, mobile app developer Dogtown Media has worked with the Minneapolis Heart Institute (MHI) and Allina Health to deploy a COVID-19 emergency protocols app.

This new mobile app builds off of a cardiovascular (CV) emergency protocols app that the organizations previously worked on together. This original iteration gives up-to-date treatment directives on how to help patients experiencing cardiac arrest, and it is available to physicians anywhere, anytime.

“A rural physician utilized a protocol within the app (he could not find a paper version at their hospital) and successfully started treatment and transferred the patient (via the app) to us for emergent life-saving surgery,” explains Mark Ebeling, Patient Care Manager at MHI.

The CV app has helped save numerous lives. Its success and the current pandemic crisis inspired Dogtown Media, MHI, and Allina Health to team up once again on a COVID-19 emergency protocols app.

More than just a redesigned and redeployed version of its predecessor, the COVID-19 emergency protocols app allows physicians to efficiently triage patients based on symptoms and risk factors. It then offers step-by-step instructions on how to best treat a patient suffering from the coronavirus.

Low-risk patients are advised to stay home and self-isolate as much as possible. For medium- and high-risk patients, the app gives guidance on increasing blood-oxygen levels, applying medications, intubation, using respirators, and more. Each of these efforts can play an integral role in stabilizing a patient’s condition so their body can properly fight the coronavirus and heal.

COVID-19 has caused the deaths of more than 200,000 people around the world. By giving healthcare providers access to research-backed clinical support protocols, Dogtown Media, MHI, and Allina Health hope to ease their stress during this overwhelming crisis and help save lives.

Formed in 1981, the Minneapolis Heart Institute of Abbott Northwestern Hospital is one of the top-rated cardiovascular care and research centers in the world. Known for being the first in the Midwest U.S. to implant an artificial heart, the facility was also recently recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best hospitals for cardiology and heart surgery.

Allina Health is a not-for-profit medical system that is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of illness through enhancing the greater health of communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. It currently owns and operates 13 hospitals and more than 90 clinics in the region.

Headquartered in Venice Beach, California, Dogtown Media is a mobile technology studio that leverages disruptive design strategies and dynamic development to deliver industry-leading apps. To date, the company has created over 200 mobile apps in industries including Healthcare app development, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence. The firm recently returned to the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies in America for the 3rd year in a row.

To download the new COVID-19 emergency protocols app on the App Store, visit here. To get it on Google Play, click here.

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SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

Modio Health, a technology company transforming the management of healthcare provider credentials, has joined CAQH, a national nonprofit alliance in creating shared initiatives to streamline the business of healthcare. Modio will use a direct, real-time integration (via API) to make the process of managing credentialing data for healthcare professionals more efficient.

Modio’s cloud-based technology streamlines credentialing for healthcare organizations and providers — keeping organizations compliant, giving doctors more career flexibility, and helping patients get faster access to physicians. Modio customers will have access to CAQH’s online repository of healthcare provider information, allowing them to easily manage data within a single, unified system. CAQH’s database, ProView, will enable participating organizations to:

Simplify data sharing and reduce duplicate data entry work

Save hospital and administrator time

Ensure data accuracy

Bridge the gap in sharing provider data

Manage providers’ renewal dates with tracking and alerts via CAQH Monitoring

“Maintaining provider data has been an arduous process for hospitals, administrators, and physicians,” says Richard Rupp, SVP of Product, Modio Health. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re seeing an unprecedented amount of change in the way that medical providers work. We have accelerated telemedicine, altered state licensing rules, layoffs, crisis surge hiring — all further complicating an already complex industry landscape. This is a critical time where we need to rapidly make our healthcare operations more efficient, and we are proud to be teaming with CAQH toward this goal.”

More than 500 healthcare organizations nationwide manage more than 150,000 providers using Modio’s systems for simplifying their credentialing processes. The cloud-based platform uses a blockchain type of mechanism that connects all entities associated with that provider with the same real-time data collection, which is automated, updated, easily accessible, and securely protected. Modio’s solution keeps organizations compliant and allows teams to securely manage and store credentials and licensure in one easily accessible location.

About Modio Health

Physician time is valuable. Modio Health gives physicians back their time by streamlining the medical credentialing processes for healthcare leaders all across the country. With Modio Health, organizations scale more quickly, clinicians spend less time on administrative work and more time practicing medicine, and patients are protected from fraud. Founded by a team of physicians in 2014, Modio Health’s cloud platform automatically pulls in critical provider data from more than 100 primary sources, including the DEA, OIG, and other verification platforms. Learn more at modiohealth.com.

About CAQH

CAQH is the leader in creating initiatives to streamline the business of healthcare. Through collaboration and innovation, CAQH accelerates the transformation of business processes, delivering value to providers, patients, and health plans. Visit http://www.caqh.org and follow us on Twitter: @caqh.

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MINSK, Belarus (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

Onde, a Belarusian IT-company that develops a mobile platform for the ride-hailing industry, announced the launch of a new joint project with the Red Cross. The project will help Red Cross volunteers deliver groceries to elderly people who are at particular risk during the COVID-19 epidemic. The project has been implemented on the basis of the company’s new ride-hailing mobile app, Lolo, and will be provided to the Red Cross at no cost.

The Belarusian Red Cross collaborates with volunteers who accept purchase orders from elderly people. To deliver the purchases, a coordinator first needs to find a volunteer with a car. The process wasn’t automated before and needed technical improvements to ensure faster and more efficient work.

The new project has been launched through Lolo, Onde’s new ride-hailing mobile app. It helps volunteers with cars register as drivers and process delivery orders. The orders are placed through a passenger app by any other volunteer or through a common dispatch panel from a Red Cross coordinator.

“Onde has been developing tech for the ride-hailing industry for over 9 years. Over 200 companies in 70 countries worldwide already use our platform. In the days of pandemic, just like any socially responsible business, we cannot stay indifferent. We realize the demand for volunteers and their services has grown exponentially. This means speed and scalability are a priority. That’s why we decided to launch our new Lolo app specifically for the Red Cross volunteers to help coordinate their work more efficiently. Anyone based in Belarus with a vehicle can become a volunteer and help,” – commented Eugene Suslo, co-founder and CEO of Onde.

Any existing Onde customer around the globe can join the initiative by offering its ride-hailing mobile app to a local COVID-19 dedicated initiative. For more information, please visit https://onde.app/lolo-red-cross-en

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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

The Amerisure Charitable Foundation (ACF) is pleased to support coronavirus (COVID-19) relief in the regions where Amerisure operates.

The majority of funds will be donated to the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), which will use the donation for grants to nonprofit and charitable organizations across the country that provide vital services to children at risk during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. The remaining funds will be donated to Michigan Community Services, Inc., a nonprofit that offers residential, respite, and senior services, as well as employment skills development and support center facilities. Amerisure’s donation will be used specifically for the Southeast Michigan COVID-19 relief fund.

“We are proud to support some of our most vulnerable populations, as they continue to be affected by the novel coronavirus,” said Angela McBride, Chief Administrative Officer at Amerisure. “As a Michigan-based company that services policyholders throughout the United States, it was important for us to allocate funds not only to our headquarters’ location, but to the communities we serve throughout the country. Additionally, by joining forces with the IICF, we’re thrilled to contribute to COVID-19 recovery alongside other insurance carriers.”

The ACF was founded in 2005 as a Michigan nonprofit corporation, and partners with organizations where Amerisure employees, board members, policyholders and Partners For Success® agencies are actively involved. The foundation contributes to more than 20 charitable organizations nationwide, each year. To learn more about the ACF, click here.

About Amerisure

Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company is an insurance organization charged with creating exceptional value for its Partners For Success® agencies and policyholders. As an “A” rated (Excellent) property and casualty insurance company licensed in 50 states, Amerisure provides a comprehensive line of insurance products to protect businesses focused in construction, manufacturing and healthcare through strategically located Core Service Centers. For more information, visit amerisure.com.

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MANSFIELD, Mass. (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to stretch the U.S. medical system, nearly two-thirds of clinical trials have been delayed or stopped as doctors and hospitals focus on treating people with the virus. eClinical Solutions LLC, a leading global provider of cloud-based enterprise software and software-driven clinical data services that accelerate drug development, today released a list of core recommendations to sustain clinical research based on its recent joint study with the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Tufts CSDD).

“This ripple effect is significant for people with conditions ranging from cancer to heart disease to Alzheimers,” says eClinical Solutions CEO Raj Indupuri. “We are losing months of valuable research time for promising therapies, and some potentially revolutionary drugs because clinical trials are being disrupted. It is critical to use advanced data technologies to connect patients and researchers, wherever they are, to collect high-quality information for ongoing drug submissions and get new therapies to market.”

To continue advancing clinical research during the pandemic, life sciences companies should consider taking the following steps:

1. Define an enterprise data strategy

According to the 2019 Tufts-eClinical Solutions Data Strategies & Transformation Study, more than 75% of sponsors rate six key data management duties as “somewhat or extremely time consuming and labor intensive,” making it clear that improving data management strategies is an urgent priority for organizations looking to leverage scientific insights from a multitude of data sources. The study found that companies with formal data strategies perceive the majority of data activities as less difficult, have shorter cycle times, and see their analytical abilities to be more fully developed and mature.

2. Centralize data and automate the data pipeline

With the volume of external data sources most often cited as the cause of prolonged database lock cycle times, streamlining the collection of data will alleviate downstream trial delays. The Tufts-eClinical Solutions study saw a three week increase in the LPLV-DBL (Last Patient Last Visit to Database Lock) cycle time metric—a 40% increase since 2017. Manual efforts in combining data often results in additional data reconciliation work that contributes to these cycle time delays, making it more crucial than ever to implement data pipelines where data is integrated and mapped in an earlier, automated way.

3. Build data sciences and analytics competencies

The increased use of AI and advanced analytics to automate the clinical trial process means building data sciences skills to support these new models will be critical to accelerating drug development. This is why three out of four sponsors are expanding the role of data scientists in their organizations.

About eClinical Solutions LLC

eClinical Solutions is a leading global provider of cloud-based enterprise software and software-driven clinical data services. The elluminate platform provides life sciences companies with greater control of their clinical trial data. elluminate software and data driven services have been used by more than 100 life sciences companies. For more information, visit http://www.eclinicalsol.com.

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