July 30, 2020 - Premier Inc. (Charlotte, NC) announced a data licensing agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The agreement grants researchers in the Critical Care Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center access to the Premier Healthcare Database (PHD) to conduct research on the impact of COVID-19 on patients across the U.S. Researchers at the NIH … [Read more...]
Premier Inc. technology predicts number of COVID-19 cases in U.S. hospitals in near real time
July 28, 2020 - Premier Inc. (Charlotte, NC) announced enhancements to its crisis forecasting and planning technology. With the enhancements, the technology will now predict the COVID-19 census for any U.S. hospital on a given day. Premier’s tool enables hospitals and health systems across the country to visualize their facilities’ COVID-19-positive census in near real time and … [Read more...]
Kodak announces pandemic plan to start making pharmaceutical ingredients
July 28, 2020 - Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY) received a $765 million loan from the Trump administration under the Defense Production Act, the first of its kind. The loan will be used to launch a business that will make pharmaceutical ingredients to help expedite domestic production of drugs that can treat a variety of medical conditions with the express aim of loosening … [Read more...]
Sysmex launches lab assay service for research on cytokines related to COVID-19
July 27, 2020 - Sysmex Corporation (Kobe, Japan) announced its plans to continue conducting research and development (R&D) with the goal of expanding target parameters for lab assays and providing reagents for research.In preparation for a predicted resurgence of COVID-19, an urgent need exists for efforts to establish diagnostic tests that cover the time period spanning … [Read more...]
Hologic awarded $7.6M federal contract for COVID-19 testing
July 27, 2020 - Hologic Inc. was awarded an undefinitized contract action with a ceiling of $7.6 million from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to expand production of custom sample collection and processing consumables for COVID-19 testing. This investment will increase Hologic's production from 4.8 million COVID-19 … [Read more...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands GlobalAccess Sequencing Program
July 27, 2020 - Thermo Fisher Scientific (Carlsbad, CA) is expanding its GlobalAccess Sequencing Program to include laboratories working in oncology. Originally introduced to accelerate multi-institutional-led studies focused on SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), the expanded program now provides support to “labs facing significant constraints as a result of the … [Read more...]
Baylor Scott & White Research Institute expands efforts in fight against COVID-19
July 24, 2020 - Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, the research and development arm of Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas, TX), announced it is accelerating its pace of bringing clinical trials online for research initiatives to combat COVID-19. “Baylor Scott & White Research Institute continues to mobilize staff and resources, including components needed … [Read more...]
Cardiac, stroke cases still down at Philadelphia area hospitals as patients delay care
July 24, 2020 - Philadelphia area health systems say patients are beginning to return for visits, but critical stroke and cardiac cases are still low. These are emergency events that cannot be curtailed by a pandemic and it concerns hospitals. Strokes and heart conditions must be treated quickly, or patients risk irreversible long-term damage and fewer treatment options. … [Read more...]
Georgia hospitals team up to encourage masking up to save lives
July 23, 2020 - Four hospitals in Central Georgia are teaming up and asking their communities to “mask up to save lives.” Coliseum Medical Centers, Coliseum Northside Hospital, Houston Healthcare, and Navicent Health have launched a public campaign with the help of local celebrities that will be featured on billboards across Central Georgia... Continue Reading … [Read more...]
Hospitals scrambling with new national COVID-19 data reporting system
July 23, 2020 - Hospitals and states are scrambling to adopt a new national COVID-19 data reporting system hastily implemented by the Trump administration last week that has left some, mostly rural, states in the dark about the severity of their own coronavirus outbreaks. The White House last week abruptly instructed all hospitals to stop reporting their COVID-19 data to the … [Read more...]