{"id":68023,"date":"2021-02-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=68023"},"modified":"2021-02-01T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:04:24","slug":"blockit-covid-19-operations-platform-powers-big-city-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/blockit-covid-19-operations-platform-powers-big-city-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockit COVID-19 Operations Platform Powers Big City Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MCKINNEY, Texas, Feb. 2, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Blockit Inc., a leading provider of digital care coordination solutions, has been on the front lines of the pandemic, providing a no-cost adaptation of their deeply integrated and highly sophisticated healthcare scheduling platform to be utilized toward COVID-19 relief efforts. Today, Blockit announced that its vaccine scheduling solution is now being used by over 350 organizations responsible for scheduling over 400,000 vaccines. Notable cities such as the City of Dallas and the City of Houston utilizing the platform experienced peak usage of over 200 vaccination appointments scheduled per minute.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-0918s2p-blockit-logo-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"Blockit\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-0918s2p-blockit-logo-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-0918s2p-blockit-logo-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The solution has facilitated the pre and post-vaccine processes for organizations across the country including large and small healthcare systems, state and county health departments, and pharmacies. As more vaccines get approved, production increases, and distribution happens more easily, Blockit continues to update platform policies and procedures to enhance the patient and provider experience. Blockit\u2019s clients are thinking ahead by incorporating healthcare industry level secure and robust automation to improve patient communication, reduce administrative overhead, and keep providers focused on maximizing vaccinations performed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t be more thankful for the Blockit team\u2019s quick and competent action toward getting our city ready for a mass vaccination effort in record time. It\u2019s working great!\u201d said Stephan J. Lopez Jr., Section Chief of Dallas Fire-Rescue Geospatial Intelligence &amp; Analytics<\/p>\n<p>Blockit\u2019s HIPAA compliant, high-capacity platform and flexible application programming interface (API) enables organizations to create delivery a very simple and friendly experience for patients to easily find, book and register appointments. While ensuring the providers can establish the necessary logic to properly screen, direct, manage and disposition patients very easily. The simple technology makes it easy to scale and adapt to any care setting across existing EHR infrastructures or as stand alone. To include leveraging smart technology to automate second dose notification, reminders and scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince focusing our capabilities on Covid-19 efforts, we\u2019ve had an incredible response from all over the nation,\u201d said Jake McCarley, co-founder and CEO of Blockit. \u201cWe have always been very proud of our unique digital care coordination solutions but we are now especially proud of the positive impact we are making in the fight against this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Providers interested in seamlessly managing vaccination schedules can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockitnow.com\/covidtesting\">https:\/\/www.blockitnow.com\/covidtesting<\/a> and follow the simple five-minute enrollment process.<\/p>\n<p>Blockit is committed to its mission of making the patient journey simple for patients, patient advocates, community members, and healthcare providers. The company will continue to provide updates on the status of testing and vaccine availability to patients as providers enroll. Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockitnow.com\/\">https:\/\/www.blockitnow.com\/<\/a> to keep up with any updates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Blockit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blockit\u2019s focus on simplifying healthcare processes for everyone motivated the company to build technologies that improve patient access and lead to better patient outcomes. By combining advanced technology with expert service and support, Blockit removes the barriers that stand in the way of patient access and care. Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockitnow.com\/\">https:\/\/www.blockitnow.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*LOGO link for media:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/300dpi\/20-0918s2p-blockit-logo-300dpi.jpg\">https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/20-0918s2p-blockit-logo-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCKINNEY, Texas, Feb. 2, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Blockit Inc., a leading provider of digital care coordination solutions, has been on the front lines of the pandemic, providing a no-cost adaptation of their deeply integrated and highly sophisticated healthcare scheduling platform to be utilized toward COVID-19 relief efforts. Today, Blockit announced that its vaccine scheduling solution is now being used by over 350 organizations responsible for scheduling over 400,000 vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8511,"featured_media":63652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,12804,1,940,48,6,5,55],"tags":[14267,15264,314],"class_list":["post-68023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-medical-news","category-ap","category-business-news","category-local-govenment-news","category-government-news","category-software-news","category-technology-news","category-texas-news","tag-digital-care-coordination","tag-healthcare-scheduling-platform","tag-hipaa-compliant","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4079,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}