PRA Health's New Program To Lend Support To Healthcare System
Zacks Investment Research | Mar 22, 2020 10:12PM ET
PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRAH) recently launched the COVID-19 Monitoring Program, which will allow individuals to connect with a healthcare professional without leaving home and thus, maintaining social distancing. The introduction of this innovative monitoring program is likely to give a boost to PRA Health’s Data Solutions segment that offers data, analytics, technology, and consulting solutions to the life sciences market.
Notably, the COVID-19 Monitoring Program is a mobile-app driven, tiered initiative that will enable employers, payers, providers and health systems to track health and wellbeing of individuals who might have been exposed, asymptomatic or diagnosed with COVID-19.
Benefits of the Monitoring Program
The program’s app can be downloaded on personal mobile devices by participants. Through the app, they will be able to report key health metrics like body temperature, heart rate and pulse oximetry associated with COVID-19. It will also help participants report symptoms like shortness of breath, fatigue and changes in coughing.
The program will allow the participants to interact with PRA Health’s nurse-led clinical call center staff who will monitor the information reported through the mobile-app on a daily basis.
Given the aggravation in the coronavirus-induced crisis, the healthcare system and its infrastructure has come under significant pressure. This innovative mobile-app can be a crucial tool during this crisis as it will provide the ability to interact with individuals remotely thereby maintaining the infrastructure and capability of the healthcare system without compromising patient’s safety and business continuity.
It is important to note here that PRA Health is deploying the COVID-19 Monitoring Program and mobile app to healthcare organizations, large employers and is in talks with academic institutions, governmental organizations, health departments and other private businesses to roll out the program.
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