What You Need to Know:
- To limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Rimidi has developed a Coronavirus (COVID-19) screening application for health systems to identify at-risk patients and direct them to appropriate locations.
- The EHR-integrated app is one of the first designed specifically to flag patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms, enabling health systems to mitigate the spread and optimize treatment.
Rimidi, a cloud-based
software platform, today announced
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Public Health
Coronavirus Forces Cancellation of 2020 HIMSS Conference: 6 Things to Know
What You Need to Know:
- Amidst growing fears of exposure to the COVID-19 Coronavirus HIMSS announced the cancellation of the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, marking the first cancellation in 58 years.
- The advisory panel recognized that industry understanding of the potential reach of the COVID-19 Coronavirus h has changed significantly in the last 24 hours.
- Over the last week, COVID-19 Coronavirus has become a global topic of concern. Gov. Ron DeSantis
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Amwell Launches National Coronavirus (COVID-19) Telehealth Response Program
What You Need to Know:
- Amwell launches a national Coronavirus (COVID-19) telehealth response program to help hospitals, health systems, and health plans manage and mitigate coronavirus spread.
- Telehealth can serve as a force multiplier in the public health response to the COVID-19 outbreak, improving access to care directly from the home.
- Amwell has established an always-on-call infection control officer, COVID-19 specific workflows to guide clinical operations and quality, and
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Due to Coronavirus Outbreak, Medicomp Systems Pulls Out of HIMSS20
What You
Need to Know:
Medicomp Systems cancels its participation in the HIMSS 2020 conference due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak posing an unacceptable health risk for its staff.
Medicomp Systems, a Washington, D.C.-based provider
of clinician-driven, point-of-care solutions that fix EHRs, announced today that the company is
canceling its participation in the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference &
Exhibition, March 9–13, 2020 in Orlando to protect the health and safety of
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4 Hospitals Leveraging Social Media to Improve Patient Engagement
Social media is an essential online marketing and outreach
tool for any organization that wants to connect to the largest audience
possible. However, health organizations — like
hospitals — can face unique challenges in managing social media,
which can make effectively leveraging these tools less straightforward.
Many large hospitals have been successful in making social media work for them. As a result, they've provided a template that other healthcare
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HHS Issues Strategies & Recommendations to Mitigate EHR-Related Clinician Burden
- HHS issues new report outlining the key sources of EHR-related burden, as well as strategies and recommendations to achieve burden reduction goals for healthcare providers.
- The HHS report reflects additional input from the more than 200 comments submitted in response to the draft strategy and recommendations.
As part of the
ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between patients and their
doctors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) issued
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Black History Month: Social Determinants of Health, The African American Experience
For the sake of history and, the auspices of a bountiful potential of a great people of a Great Nation may there be boldness and courage in the noble battle waged to address social determinants of health within US healthcare? History has revealed the health and well being of a Nation and its people is as important as matters of national security.
Thus, stands the profound import of equitable access to good health and wellness within the United States of America and Nations around the world.
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NYC Health + Hospitals Launches $4.3M SDoH Programs to Address Food & Housing Insecurities
- OneCity Health is the NYC Health + Hospitals-sponsored Performing Provider System (PPS) launches two new programs worth $4.3M in total to address food and housing insecurities among patients of the City’s public health system.
- As part of the initiative, OneCity Health will partner with NowPow to utilize their personalized community referral platform to enable community-based organizations to connect patients to available services that are traditionally fragmented and difficult to
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Research: Connected Inhalers Link Ozone Exposure to Asthma Symptoms
- Today, UCSF, CommonSpirit Health, UC Berkeley and Propeller announced research that uses data from connected inhalers to show that exposure to ozone in the air leads to more frequent asthma symptoms.
- This is the first study to use a digital health platform to study the impact of ozone on respiratory disease. By attaching sensors to the inhalers of 287 people with asthma in California, researchers were able to track their medication use.
- When ozone concentrations in the air
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Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center Uses Wearable Sensors to Combat Spread of Coronavirus in China
- Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center uses VivaLNK continuous temperature wearable sensors to combat the spread of Coronavirus in China.- While quarantining patients may limit patient-to-patient contact, contact between caregivers and patients can also be avoided with technology.VivaLNK, a Campbell, CA-based provider of connected healthcare solutions, today announces Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (SPHCC) is using VivaLNK's continuous temperature sensor to combat the spread of
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