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Health Catalyst Expands COVID-19 Response Support and Provides Infrastructure to Enable Readiness for Future Demands
SALT LAKE CITY, March 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst," Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology
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[{"type":"text","content":"SALT LAKE CITY, March 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, Inc. (\"Health Catalyst,\" Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, today announced that multiple client sites are already using its new COVID-19 Solutions announced last week, well ahead of the anticipated March 31 launch. Additionally, a growing number of its health system clients are using the company's agile, adaptable, open Data Operating System's (DOS) ingestion, warehousing, analytics and services capabilities to meet evolving COVID-19-driven demands. More capabilities and solution refinements are surfacing and becoming available, including public health surveillance reporting for seven states and longer-term infrastructure planning for the anticipated next wave of COVID-19 and other novel viruses, with this future readiness enabled by DOS.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThe COVID-19 Solutions, which include Patient & Staff Tracker, Public Health Surveillance, and Staff Augmentation Support, are being refined and repurposed with real time input from clients. Expanded capabilities and offerings now include additional customization of Analytic Accelerators for greater practice and staff management, including Patient Access, Readmissions Explorer, Blood Utilization, Supply Chain Explorer and Infection-related Analytics. Health Catalyst team members with analytics, data science and other domain-specific expertise are also contributing to the support and augmentation of client staff as increased resource demands occur.\n\"Our growing suite of COVID-19 Solutions capabilities includes identifying the location of patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 as well as other patient, clinician and staff interactions and exposures to allow for infectious disease surveillance and automated monitoring for \"hot-spots\" using local geo-mapping and more,\" said Holly Rimmasch, Chief Clinical Officer at Health Catalyst. \"Data-informed surveillance and containment strategies can enhance COVID-19 detection, reduce transmission and help our nation's hospitals and healthcare systems manage capacity and supplies to limit risk of system-overwhelm and improve patient, caregiver and community outcomes.\"\nHealth Catalyst is also demonstrating its commitment to supporting public health efforts by providing its Health ...