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Health Catalyst Plans to Support Health System Clients' COVID-19 Response with Three Initial Solutions Focused on Patient Tracking, Public Health Surveillance and Staff Augmentation Support
SALT LAKE CITY, March 17, 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 17, 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, after dozens of conversations with health system clients, the company will initially be offering three COVID-19 Solutions to its domestic clients, with the first of these solutions becoming available to pilot clients by the end of March. The technology associated with these solutions will be offered to all clients at no incremental cost through the end of 2020. In the days and weeks ahead, Health Catalyst will continue to explore with clients additional potential analytics solutions helpful in addressing the COVID-19 situation. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThe first solution, Patient & Staff Tracker, is a tailored module of Health Catalyst's Patient Flow Analytics Accelerator, that offers health system clients the ability to track where patients who test positive for COVID-19 have been within the health system setting, and which staff members have interacted with these patients, to inform capacity management, testing, quarantine, and decontamination activities. Many health systems are compiling this information manually today. This solution automates the process and produces a straightforward and actionable report. Health Catalyst is making this technology module available to all health system clients at no incremental cost, with any associated additional services offered at a discounted rate through the end of 2020.\nThe second solution, Public Health Surveillance, is a tailored module of Health Catalyst's Patient Safety Monitor Application Suite, which identifies unusual patterns of symptoms and clinical tests that could represent illness, with the aim of flagging these events of significance in a timely manner to aid in an effective public health response and management of infectious agents. A distinct advantage of the capabilities of the Public Health Surveillance module is to enable clients' hospital epidemiologists and infection control personnel to perform local, rapid and preliminary assessments of patient-level clinical data and determine whether or not that information is significant to their healthcare system's bio surveillance programs. The Public Health Surveillance module leverages Health Catalyst's...