Claire Umeda, VP of Marketing at 4iQ
While we may consider health largely a private concern in the United States, our nation depends on the continuity and availability of its healthcare system in a very public way, as evidenced by the current coronavirus outbreak. Our critical healthcare infrastructure is vulnerable at this time, no doubt, but it truly has been inspiring to see doctors, scientists, and other industry professionals from around the world come together to stop the spread of
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Social Distancing: Addiction Recovery Programs Go Virtual for COVID-19
Varun Goyal, Co-Founder and CEO of Illuminate Health
We have been following the social distancing guidelines for two weeks now with more weeks to go. One population that truly needs and is literally prescribed social interaction is that of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). In fact, the 12 step (recovery approach) community, relies on being social wherein attending group meetings to share experience, strength, and hope is a part of the proven philosophy.
Turns out, social distancing while
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How Location Technology Can Ensure the Safety of Healthcare Workers
Mohsen Hekmatyar, VP of Sales, Security Solutions with CenTrak,
Healthcare can be a dangerous industry. Danger may not be what one immediately associates with places of healing and medicine, but consider everything that healthcare workers go through every day. It’s not uncommon for them to find themselves walking into the rooms of patients who are experiencing mental distress or interacting with aggressive visitors searching for an outlet for their emotions.
According to OSHA, the
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Deploying a Telehealth Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr. Betty Rabinowitz, Chief Medical Officer of NextGen Healthcare
Only weeks ago, American doctors’ waiting rooms were bustling with patients of all ages. This was no surprise as it is estimated that in an average year the U.S. healthcare system provided an estimated 278 office-based physician visits per 100 persons, for a total of approximately 883 million visits per year. Chronic conditions were the major reason for 37% of all office-based physician visits, and visits for chronic
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Healthcare Data Infrastructure Security Cannot Be Ignored During a Pandemic
Roberto Ramon Garcia VP of Product Strategy & Engineering at Globalscape
The rapid advancement of technology has inspired hope in the healthcare industry, promising to employ artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based data platforms in life-altering ways. Surgery assisting robots and miraculously accurate AI-based cancer diagnosis methods are a few preliminary examples of what the industry can expect. With all these great technological strides being taken, however, compliance can
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Analysis: Applying AI in the Fight Against The Coronavirus
Dr. Ulrik Kristensen, Senior Market Analyst at Signify Research
Drug discovery is a notoriously long, complex and expensive process requiring the concerted efforts of the world’s brightest minds. The complexity in understanding human physiology and molecular mechanisms is increasing with every new research paper published and for every new compound tested. As the world is facing a new challenge in trying to both adapt to and defend itself against the coronavirus, artificial intelligence is
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Prevent the Oncoming Medical Information Crisis
Kyle Silvestro Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SyTrue
“You only know who is naked when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett famously said of the nation’s businesses when markets tank. For the nation’s information systems, the opposite is true. You see their weaknesses when they are inundated by a tidal wave of data.
A case in point is the information infrastructure of the American healthcare system, which will play a critical role in understanding and battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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6 Benefits of Telemedicine in Managing the Diabetes Epidemic
Dean Smith, MD, Chief Medical Officer for GlobalMed
The American Diabetes Association reveals that 9.4% of the American population has diabetes, and with numbers that high nearly all Americans have a friend or family member with the disease. However, many Americans are not aware that telehealth can enable diabetic patients to manage their condition—treatment that would have otherwise been difficult to come by for rural patients with limited access to care.
With such a high prevalence among
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COVID-19: Why Africa Urgently Needs an Ubuntu Plan
Dr. Victor Oladokun is the Director of Communication and External Relations at the African Development Bank. (PHOTO/AfDB)
One virus has disrupted the whole world in a manner never seen before in history.
Africa urgently needs a globally coordinated Ubuntu Plan in response to COVID-19, a fiscal stimulus that recognizes our shared and connected humanity, as we find ourselves in the midst of an unprecedented crisis.
The world's largest cities are eerily silent. One virus has disrupted
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COVID-19: 5 Steps for Health IT Teams to Accommodate New Demands
Bob Zemke, CISSP CPHIMS, Director of Healthcare Solutions at Extreme NetworksDoug McDonald, FHIMSS CPHIMS, Director of Product Management – Healthcare Vertical at Extreme Networks
The rapid escalation of COVID-19 patient cases has created new challenges for healthcare organizations to scale up testing and care services, while also reducing risk for non-critical patients or care workers. Healthcare IT professionals are being asked to digitally transform overnight, in supporting remote workers,
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