After pivoting to virtual for its spring CV TransForum, MedAxiom has decided to also hold its fall conference online—complete with opportunities for leaders and industry innovators to connect and exchange ideas and solutions for transforming cardiovascular care.

The unprecedented challenges facing healthcare organizations have put a spotlight on value-based care as a key factor to financially surviving the global COVID-19 pandemic—thanks to more stable revenue streams, as well as care coordination and data analysis capabilities.

Client partners continue to pioneer new ways of fighting COVID-19 with Brigham and Women’s in Boston testing a robot built by MIT to monitor vital signs, and researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital developing an AI-based tool to help triage patients. Plus, more stories about innovation from RWJBarnabas, UCLA Health, Stanford Health Care, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Enhanced interoperability is key to containing COVID-19, according to a report from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, which has a list of recommendations for providers, clinical laboratories, and healthcare IT developers to improve patient data exchange and compatibility of disparate hospital systems.

A strict masking policy resulted in markedly lower COVID-19 rates among healthcare workers, according to a new paper published in JAMA.

Researchers tracked infection rates at Boston’s Mass General Brigham health system after a plan to require surgical masks was announced in March 2020.

In recent COVID-19 developments, Brigham and Women’s has aided MIT in the development of an easy-to-sterilize silicone mask that’s as good as the N95, Tenet is reporting a dramatic rebound in patient volume, and UCHealth is offering up its expertise to the public amid the ongoing pandemic. Keep reading for these and other examples of client partners in the spotlight.

Even as there is a resurgence in the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States and governors walk back plans for reopening, hospital administrators and service line leaders are looking ahead to a time when volumes will return to pre-pandemic levels.

This month in client partner news, Mass General Brigham wrangles data for COVID-19 research, AI helps lung scans detect the coronavirus at Mount Sinai, Baptist Health is equipping its hospitals with UV light disinfection technology, and more. Read on for these stories and other dispatches from clients including HCA Healthcare, Bon Secours Mercy Health, and ChristianaCare.

In order to study the relationship between COVID-19 and heart disease, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) announced recently that it will start using two data registries to monitor how the virus affects patients who suffer a variety of major cardiac events or medical procedures.

If there is a silver lining to the dark cloud that is a global pandemic, it’s that healthcare providers have emerged as heroes and the industry has been innovating up a storm since the COVID-19 threat emerged. Read on for news about some of our client partners stepping up in this time of crisis.