As demand skyrockets for personal protective equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon has launched a new section of Prime dedicated to stocking and supplying gear like face masks, thermometers and protective gloves. Recode writes that PPE will be exclusively sold to hospitals and government organizations, and those interested in purchasing supplies must fill out …
FEMA to Issue Temporary Rule Blocking Export of PPE Supplies
FEMA will issue a temporary rule to allocate “certain scarce or threatened materials” for domestic use so that they are not exported from the U.S. without approval by the agency. Rule covers five types of personal protective equipment, including N95 filtering facepiece respirators, PPE surgical masks and PPE gloves or surgical gloves. Read More
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IDN Insights East Rescheduled
Due to COVID-19, ANAE has made a decision to postpone IDN Insights East, a meeting that was originally scheduled for May 7-8. We have rescheduled this event for December 9-10, 2020 at the same hotel in Philadelphia, PA, which will also serve as a year-end holiday celebration!This meeting highlights some of the most progressive, largest healthcare …
10 takeaways: The ‘radical measures’ health systems are taking to manage Covid-19’s cost
The Advisory Board has compiled a list of 10 key takeaways on Covid-19. View the full detailed list at the link below! Covid-19’s ‘exponential growth’ continues Domestic death rate continues to climb Following New York, states hurtle toward peak demand Hospitals need contingency plans for looming ICU bed shortage Amid PPE shortages and test backlog, …
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3M, law enforcement step up efforts to stop N95 scams
3M, Honeywell and other legitimate manufacturers have been working with law enforcement and state attorneys general since the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. became acute and exacerbated shortages of protective medical supplies. Now, both 3M and law enforcement are becoming more organized in their efforts to fight the fraud. 3M has set up a hotline …
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Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies
The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act which gives federal officials the power to edge out the competition and force contractors to provide supplies to them before filling orders for other customers. While it’s unclear how many times the power has been used during the coronavirus pandemic, federal contracting records examined by Kaiser …
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New National Accounts Today Podcast Released with John Bardis
John Bardis, former Assistant Secretary of Administration for Health and Human Services (HHS), and the founder and former CEO of MedAssets, joins the podcast during the height of the COVID 19 pandemic. John Pritchard, Publisher of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, discusses the strength of collaboration between the public and private sectors in the fight …
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Mass General, CHOP, Northwestern Med receive federal approval for COVID-19 tests
Massachusetts General Hospital, the Infectious Disease Diagnostics Laboratory at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Diagnostic Molecular Laboratory at Northwestern Medicine, have received federal approval to produce tests to detect COVID-19. All three organization’s real-time tests were cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week for detecting COVID-19 using nasopharyngeal swabs, nasal swabs, …
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39 million masks never materialized at hospitals, sparking a federal investigation
The union that represents healthcare workers in California announced it had arranged the purchase of 39 million N95 masks for hospitals and government agencies that badly need the protective equipment.Among the intended recipients was Kaiser Permanente, which placed orders for 6 million masks. A week later, none of those masks have materialized, and Kaiser is …
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HCA Healthcare Teams With Google Cloud and SADA on Data Portal to Help Communities Respond to COVID-19
HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud today jointly announced the COVID-19 National Response Portal, an open data platform built and operated by SADA. Running on Google Cloud, the platform is intended to enable healthcare providers across the country to safely share and display anonymous, aggregated metrics from hospital systems into a single platform to show a …
Getinge to further increase production capacity of ventilators in 2020
Getinge is announcing yet another ramp-up in production capacity, to 26,000 ventilators in 2020. The increase equals a growth of 160% compared to 2019, when 10,000 ventilators were produced. Getinge is ramping up the production capacity at its production facility in Solna, Sweden and is now increasing production capacity to 26,000 in 2020, compared to …
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Michigan’s two largest health care providers have about 2,200 staff members affected by Covid-19
About 2,200 workers in Michigan’s two largest health care systems have coronavirus symptoms or have tested positive for the virus.Beaumont Health, Michigan’s largest health care system with 38,000 employees, has about 1,500 staff members staying home because they have symptoms consistent with Covid-19. In addition, Henry Ford Health System, a Detroit-based health care system with …
National Accounts Today – Episode 7 – John Bardis
John Bardis, former Assistant Secretary of Administration for Health and Human Services (HHS), and the founder and former CEO of MedAssets, joins the podcast during the height of the COVID 19 pandemic. John discusses the strength of collaboration between the public and private sectors in the fight against the virus, as well as his insights …
Desperate lawmakers hunt for medical supplies as Trump takes hands-off approach
Democrats and Republicans across the country say they’re desperately trying to acquire masks, gloves and ventilators for the most at-risk health care workers in their districts — a crisis that, for now, can’t be solved with simply more cash. The Michigan Republican said he’s been surveying hospitals and health centers in his district about their …
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China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says
Bloomberg reports that the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials, that China concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths. The unidentified officials said the thrust is China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally …
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