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Steven Berkow, Advisory Board’s VP of Provider Research, spoke with Patrick J. Brennan, MD CMO and Senior VP at Penn Medicine, about what steps his health system is taking to care for a surge in COVID-19 patients. Penn Medicine is a six-hospital health system, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and …

Preparing for the surge: How Penn Med is bolstering capacity and staff to brace for COVID-19 casesRead More

Boston Medical Center, which launched telehealth visits on March 16, has seen a rapid increase in usage. Within 48 hours of deploying the service, the hospital had 1,500 virtual visits scheduled, according to the report. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, BMC was hardly doing any telehealth, said Rebecca Grochow Mishuris, MD, associate chief medical information …

Telehealth visits at Mass General, Boston Medical Center skyrocketRead More

Kathleen Sebelius, who served as secretary of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama, helped lead the administration’s negotiations with Congress over the Affordable Care Act and implementation of the law. Sebelius, who is also a member of the Kaiser Family Foundation board of directors, recently joined Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News’ chief Washington …

Sebelius, Looking Back At ACA, Says the Country’s Never “Seen This Kind of Battle”Read More

A senior State Department official in a briefing with reporters on Tuesday said the U.S. is asking countries if they have excess materials or excess capacity to manufacture key items needed to battle the spread of the virus. The State Department has set up a “tracker” to organize which countries have available supplies, and the …

U.S. Asking Allies for Extra Stockpiles to Help Fight CoronavirusRead More

Healthcare providers are working around the clock to safely care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the last thing they need to worry about is whether their products are reliable, safe and legitimate. Unfortunately, a grey market is amassing around personal protective equipment (PPE), as unauthorized, third-party sellers hawk masks, gowns and other scarce …

Scammers May be Trafficking Counterfeit or Faulty Products During COVID-19Read More

Dail-eNews editor Daniel Beaird interviews Repertoire editor Mark Thill about the FDA’s letter to healthcare providers on surgical mask and gown conservation strategies and the possible re-use of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to the podcast here

Dail-eNews Podcast – PPE availability during COVID-19Read More

“Hospitals across the U.S. are running out of the masks, gowns and other equipment they need to protect staff against the novel coronavirus as they struggle to take care of patients, say hospital officials, doctors and others in the industry. “The Pentagon stepped into the breach by offering on Tuesday to supply up to five …

Hospitals Running Out of Masks, Other Key EquipmentRead More

Americans with employer-based health coverage could be hit with high out-of-pocket costs if they’re hospitalized for the coronavirus. To project costs tied to coronavirus treatments, researchers analyzed pneumonia hospitalizations from a claims database of 18 million people enrolled in large employer health plans in 2018. The analysis shows that the average pneumonia hospital admission for …

What Coronavirus Treatment Could Cost YouRead More

To help answer questions on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the U.S. healthcare supply chain, The Journal of Healthcare Contracting  reached out to Michael Schiller, CMRP, senior director, Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association (AHA).  Schiller provides insights into what is going on at …

AHRMM advice to supply chain leaders: Review and Implement CDC StrategiesRead More

Beaumont Health has joined several other hospitals in processing a limited number of COVID-19 tests in its own laboratory. “We must conserve our testing supplies. That’s why we’re only processing our own tests for certain patients who meet COVID-19 testing criteria and are admitted to our hospitals or are receiving treatment in one of our …

Coronavirus outbreak: Beaumont Health starts testingRead More

On Tuesday the company told sellers and vendors that it would accept only shipments of “household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products” to its warehouse until April 5 to deal with the high demand of those products amid the coronavirus crisis. That means sellers who use Amazon’s storage and delivery network for a fixed …

Amazon to stop accepting all products other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisisRead More