COVID-19 Screening-and-Response Program

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
March 23, 2020

CareSpan USA, developer of the CareSpan Integrated Digital Care Platform has developed and launched a screening-and-response program for individuals concerned that they may have contracted the new coronavirus and COVID-19. The CareSpan COVID-19 Screening-and-Response (S&R) Program was designed with input from physicians, nurse practitioners and doctors-of-public-health to enable risk assessment and counseling of anyone concerned about the new coronavirus disease, regardless of location. The first clinicians using the CareSpan COVID-19 S&R Program are members of American-APN, a multi-state network of nurse practitioners using the CareSpan Clinic platform for care delivery. Likewise, Global Health, the occupational medicine arm of Houston Area Safety Council is offering the COVID-19 S&R Program to its industrial employer clientele for screening of workers in the energy, refining, chemical and construction sectors.

“The current COVID-19 pandemic presents a challenge to state and local governments and the medical community at large to provide a safe, easily accessible method through which concerned individuals may take a first step, to be screened to determine if they are currently appropriate for COVID-19 testing,” stated Dr. Terry Knapp, CareSpan Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Knapp added, “Health departments, emergency rooms and doctors’ offices can be relieved of the burden of evaluating large numbers of anxious patients for indications for testing and self-care instructions. Policy makers can receive the information they need to support crucial decisions and the real-time data needed to evaluate results.”

The CareSpan COVID-19 S&R Program puts each patient in video contact with a qualified health professional, establishes a record for each person, uses data coupled with direct observation to assess each person’s risk and susceptibility profile, then guides that person to testing and care as indicated. It also establishes a follow-up opportunity for continuity-of-care to all screened persons should that be necessary.

“The current Coronavirus crisis understandably generates fear and concern among individuals and families. The CareSpan COVID-19 S&R the potential for an early and orderly assessment of symptoms and recommended responses for all Americans and is meant to augment and support control and containment measures being implemented by public and private sector leadership in the U.S., ” noted Rembert De Vila, CareSpan’s Chief Executive Officer. De Villa concluded, “CareSpan is committed to contribute to this global COVID-19 fight.”

Patient information: http://www.americanapn.com/patientscreening

Healthcare professional and health systems information: http://www.americanapn.com/healthsystems

About American Advanced Practice Network American-APN is the first professional “group practice without walls” that brings highly qualified nurse practitioners to those in need of health care under a collaborative care system that uses integrated digital care technologies. American-APN owned and operated exclusively by its nurse practitioner membership http://www.americanapn.com.

About Houston Area Safety Council/Global Health

The Houston Area Safety Council (HASC) is a 501(c)3 trade association whose mission is to build safe workplaces by improving the quality and integrity of the workforce. As a leader in developing innovative and advanced solutions, HASC continues to build value to the industry through the areas of training, skills development, technology and industry services, and occupational health. Providing occupational health services through Global Health ensures quality and consistency in all health education, health testing, examinations, and injury care supplied to our industry both at our health centers and through our mobile on-site team. https://www.hasc.com/

About CareSpan USA

CareSpan USA is a subsidiary of CareSpan Holdings, Inc. CareSpan USA designs, develops and deploys telemedicine, telehealth and integrated digital care technologies for use by the medical and healthcare professionals in serving patients worldwide.: http://www.carespanhealth.com.

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ER doctors can remotely evaluate 2-5 times more Covid-19 patients per hour with the SqwaQbox

DALLAS (PRWEB)
March 23, 2020

SqwaQ, a company specializing in mobile, critical data connectivity for telemedicine, disclosed that it has successfully demonstrated its technology to several emergency responders and large medical interests who are preparing for escalated efforts to track and contain the spread of Covid-19. There is an urgent need for hundreds of “pop-up” testing and treatment centers across the country. However, reliable mobile data connectivity has been an obstacle to deployment and is critical to support thousands of remote telemedicine workers who may need to be deployed to rural areas where Internet access can be challenging.

SqwaQ’s patented, mobile modem called the SqwaQbox, was specifically designed for critical data applications like a mobile Covid-19 war. It’s small and portable so it can be mounted in vehicles like ambulances, and can even be inserted into rolling medical bags that healthcare workers can take almost anywhere. Plus, it delivers much more bandwidth than a phone or other cellular modems. The SqwaQbox also works on very low battery power, so you don’t need an AC outlet to get reliable connectivity in a remote area where M*A*S*H style triage tents could need to be set up.

The SqwaQbox doesn’t rely on one cellular network either. It combines up to a dozen 4G-LTE connections from different networks and towers simultaneously. This gives remote healthcare workers a reliable, multi-redundant connection for telemedicine sessions with any available hospital in the country, creating a manpower multiplier. With SqwaQ, one ER doctor can remotely evaluate and treat 2-5 times more patients per hour without having to change protective gear and rooms each time.

Roughly 1-in-5 Americans lives in rural areas, representing 60 million people with an average age of 73, the highest risk group for Covid-19 exposure. These rural areas have not been hard hit by Covid-19 yet, but they represent the highest fatality risk. Half of all rural counties in America have no ICU beds to deal with this pandemic but there is still time to prepare.

“If we learned anything from Katrina, it’s that bureaucratic response is not decisive or nimble. SqwaQ is already receiving emergency requests from areas that are hard hit by Covid-19 and deployment is harder when a city is locked down. We’re trying to deploy our technology early and proactively before the situation becomes dire, but some decision makers are moving much slower than others.”, said Ted Lindsley, CEO

About SqwaQ

SqwaQ delivers robust, multi-redundant connectivity for high-value, mobile, critical applications. Our patented SqwaQbox modems are made in the USA even during pandemics, and deliver mobile data connectivity on over 600 cellular networks across 130 countries.

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Virtual healthcare consultation using Liquid Payments payment platform

“Our focus right now is to support and best serve the evolving needs of healthcare providers and their patients,” states Shashi Kapur, CEO, Liquid Payments.

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (PRWEB)
March 23, 2020

As the White House now seeks $1 trillion plus to blunt the fallout from the drastic changes to daily life caused by the coronavirus, and with $500 million allocated to expand access to telehealth services, Liquid Payments, Inc., announced today it is offering its mobile patient payments platform, inclusive of the “TeleCharge” feature, for free. The move comes in an effort to support and help better-position healthcare practices for the overnight surge in patient demand.

Among other solutions in the healthcare payments space, Liquid Payments offers a feature-rich mobile platform for improved patient-to-provider payments processing. Designed for healthcare providers, urgent care clinics, and hospitals, Liquid Payments’ core payments technology includes “TeleCharge,” an instant mobile payment option initiated at the time of a remote encounter. This enables providers to offer televisits with a convenient, frictionless payment experience so they can focus on patient care.

Televisits are proving to be an increasingly valuable tool to help healthcare providers combat the coronavirus outbreak and reduce the spread of infection. A practice already on the rise over the last several decades, telehealth is quickly becoming the new standard in patient care in light of COVID-19. As a result, healthcare providers are forced to evolve to meet these changing needs, including leveraging new tools and technology to better care for, and accommodate patients.

Liquid’s “TeleCharge” is one such tool and can be invoked immediately, on the fly, with one click of a button. Now available free for 90-days, telehealth patients benefit from a transparent, convenient payment option as providers offer continuity of care during this unsettling time.

“Shashi Kapur, CEO, Liquid Payments, commented, “Our focus right now is to support and best serve the evolving needs of healthcare providers and their patients. One way we can do this is to make our solution, and specifically our TeleCharge feature, accessible to all providers by removing any cost barriers. In this case, we’re enabling providers to proceed with virtual care without worry over payments.”

Liquid Payments specializes in helping healthcare providers take greater control over patient payments by improving services and lowering costs. The Liquid PCI and HIPAA compliant payment-card capture, along with SMS technology, allows healthcare providers to auto-charge patient balances owed, set up automatic recurring payment plans, send payment links to collect balances due, and more. Patients enjoy simple, convenient payment options and better communication.

By digitalizing payments, Liquid Payments also provides efficiencies in remittance to providers, resulting in increased revenue, improved cash flow, reduced costs, as well as decreased write-offs.

For more information on Liquid Payments and how to get started for free as a Telehealth provider, visit http://www.liquid-payments.com/telehealth

About Liquid Payments, Inc.

Based in Fort Lauderdale, Liquid Payments, Inc. (LQ), is a financial technology innovator in the healthcare space. LQ has solutions deployed in multiple medical payments sectors including healthcare cost-sharing entities and healthcare practices and is currently advancing emerging applications of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the industry. For more information visit http://www.liquid-payments.com

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Kazuhm

“COVID-19 is bringing people and organizations around the world together with a singular goal of beating the pandemic and saving lives,” said Rick Valencia, interim CEO of Kazuhm.

SAN DIEGO (PRWEB)
March 23, 2020

Kazuhm today announced their AI-driven distributed computing solution will be provided free to any organization fighting the coronavirus pandemic. University and private sector research labs, test kit manufacturers, companies providing free or reduced cost video conferencing solutions, and companies who have quickly ramped up manufacturing for items such as hand sanitizer, gloves, and face masks can all take advantage of Kazuhm to increase their computing capacity. This offer is available to any organization across the globe that meets the criteria of contributing to the fight against COVID-19.

“COVID-19 is bringing people and organizations around the world together with a singular goal of beating the pandemic and saving lives,” said Rick Valencia, interim CEO of Kazuhm. “The shift in resources, the changeover in manufacturing lines, the ramp up of research labs all takes immense application processing power, and Kazuhm is dedicated to ensuring these teams are getting that processing power as easily, efficiently, and securely as possible.”

Universities, research labs, non-profits, hospitals, and enterprises across sectors are struggling to meet the sudden demand for everything from hand sanitizer to respirators to online learning and meeting solutions. The Kazuhm platform can help these organizations quickly and easily unify the compute resources they already own to maximize distributed storage and application processing power.

In many organizations, compute resources such as desktops, laptops and servers go unused approximately 70% of the time. Kazuhm represents the first time distributed computing is available as an enterprise-grade product enabling organizations to take full advantage of the computing power they already own across all their devices from Linux, MacOS, and Windows desktops, laptops and tablets to servers and multi-cloud environments. Industry proven in applications for genomics research, data analytics, and image and video processing, Kazuhm allows customers to quickly and easily unify their resources and run any containerized application faster, more securely, and at a lower cost. A user-friendly interface and integrated dashboards enable simple setup, AI-driven insights, and complete control.

Companies interested in containing their IT costs as well as improving compute capacity and performance while fighting the COVID-19 pandemic can sign up for this free offer at https://www.kazuhm.com/covid-19-response/.

About Kazuhm

Kazuhm revolutionizes how companies process workloads through a first-of-a-kind enterprise-grade distributed computing technology. The Kazuhm SaaS platform unifies the compute resources of an organization from desktops, to servers, to multi-cloud, to edge, creating a powerful compute grid where data can be stored and enterprise applications can be intelligently placed and processed for the purposes of improved reliability, speed, security, and cost. Built with industry leading ease-of-use, customers worldwide are leveraging Kazuhm today to process some of the most demanding applications in business intelligence, data science and media & entertainment. For more information, visit https://www.kazuhm.com.

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