Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2020

The following is a guest article by Dan O’Connor, SVP, Growth at Ciox Real World Data. With the resurgent spread of COVID-19 through American communities nationwide comes an explosion of COVID-19 data as a byproduct; real-world data (RWD) necessary and useful to accelerate containment, tracing, and treatment solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Hospitals across the country have been slammed with challenges over the course of the past 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the U.S., creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. This latest feature story has a special focus: children's hospitals.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. The end of the PHE means different things for so many different sectors of the healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On February 4 th , 2020, in a hospital in northern California, the first known inpatient diagnosed with COVID-19 died. On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

According to the World Health Organization, more than 11 million people die from sepsis worldwide annually, more than the deaths caused by all cancers combined. hospitals, with total annual costs of treatment and rehabilitation estimated at $62 billion. Before the COVID-19 pandemic , at least 1.7

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wolf With our recent (and continuing) experience of the devastating COVID-19 global pandemic, one might think that our collective appreciation for public health efforts and the people advancing those efforts would be high. Social isolation has led to a mental health crisis. By Leslie E. Shutdowns undoubtedly saved lives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

preventable hospitalizations and emergency department visits related to medication non-adherence cost more than $300 billion a year, according to National Institutes of Health research. eDOT is a World Health Organization-endorsed and U.S. In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 13, 2025

Steve Miff, PhD, President & CEO of PCCI Five years ago this week, the COVID-19 pandemic threw our world into chaos. The government declared a full lockdown of the country thanks to the pernicious COVID-19 outbreak that the World Health Organization had declared a full-blown pandemic.

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Health Law Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2022

A little over one week later, we reported that the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after COVID-19 was detected in eighteen countries, infecting almost 10,000 people and killing more than two hundred. And we have mourned the loss of those that succumbed to the virus.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

remain home for the immediate term, our home economics blur into their personal health economics in the #COVID19 era in several respects: physically, to be sure; fiscally; and emotionally. The physical impact of COVID-19 is the first-line requiring quarantine in the #StayHomeSaveLives mode. As people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

“So close and yet so far” feels like the right phrase to use a year after the World Health Organization used the “P-word,” “pandemic,” to describe the coronavirus’s impact on public health, globally. One year and over 550,000 COVID-related deaths in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

Speeding up Test Development We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants. Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Good hand hygiene protects against sickness and disease such as the flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), COVID-19, and other respiratory illnesses. The World Health Organization (WHO) states the entire hand washing process will take approximately 40-60 seconds.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 21, 2022

As much as we all wish it were otherwise, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives and upset stability around the world. We have seen the incredible strain COVID-19 has put on our healthcare systems and providers including doctors, nurses, and administrators.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2022

That incident saw Biologist Joseph Popp distribute 20,000 floppy disks at the World Health Organization AIDS conference in Stockholm. In 2014, Boston Children’s Hospital suffered a major distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, there was a massive cyberattack on Anthem Inc.

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Total HIPAA

MARCH 17, 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the recent coronavirus outbreak, otherwise known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) , a public health emergency of international concern. On March 11, WHO characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic, detected in 114 countries around the globe as of that date.¹.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

Even three years on, the World Health Organization found that 84% of countries were still experiencing some disruption. By combining AI-enabled decisions with expert judgment, patients can have peace of mind knowing they are supported by fellow humans as they continue to gain trust in AI technology.

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Healthcare Blog

MARCH 16, 2022

The World Health Organization estimates that 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in some 2.6 COVID-19 effects on healthcare workers’ mental health. million deaths. They are: Staffing shortages. www.mcnhealthcare.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2021

According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 When you apply that number to your average local clinic or hospital, […]. The following is a guest article by Joe Duarte, Co-CEO of InnoCaption.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. During the three years prior to her death, she was admitted to the hospital 30 times.

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Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is an especially critical year for bringing global awareness to mental health. It has been more than 18 months since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while life is returning to a sense of normalcy in some areas of the world, others are still experiencing high rates of transmission and hospital admissions.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Among them, was the issue of vaccine hesitancy around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations such as those in Africa.

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Bill of Health

JULY 11, 2024

This is a massive blind spot, as mental health problems are a growing concern worldwide. The experience of COVID-19 is estimated to have led to a 27.6% Low and middle-income countries (LMICs), home to 80% of people with mental illnesses, should prioritize strengthening their mental health systems.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We witnessed just how valuable this function was at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when our understanding of the virus, from prevention to care, was disjointed and changing daily. Centers for Disease Control, World Health Organization, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2021

While physician burnout is not new, the COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly accelerating the many negative repercussions of uncertainty and inadequate support, and the consequences are being felt by patients, physicians, and healthcare systems. Working conditions can be stressful and may lead to emotional exhaustion, or burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Tech inspires these pledges through circular health-care initiatives, telehealth, smart hospitals, AI, and so much more. Hospitals produce more than 29 pounds of waste per bed per day, which requires efficient sorting, composting, and recycling processes. Smart Hospitals. And according to Phillips, 24 percent of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2024

The Imperative for Digitizing Short-Term Rehab According to projections by the World Health Organization, musculoskeletal conditions are the primary drivers behind the increasing rates of disability, particularly among the elderly. These conditions are exacerbated by factors such as long COVID-19 and extended hospital stays.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2020

I’ve enjoyed receiving feedback on the past four days of ABCovid-19 journal shares on my LinkedIn page and Twitter feed @HealthyThinker. That’s public health, for you. Today, I bring you the fifth and last day of sharing my COVID-19 alphabet with you: the letters “U” through “Z.”

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

In health care, right here, right now at the May 2021 #NH4H session, our problems were categorized in four challenge areas; Vaccine education and delivery. Health equity, and. Care settings (think: outside or away from the hospital bed or doctor’s office). Medical Deserts.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

. – According to the World Health Organization, more than 11 million people die from sepsis worldwide annually, more than the deaths caused by all cancers combined. hospitals with annual costs of treatment and rehabilitation estimated at $62 billion. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 1.7

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink. So, what other than advances in diagnostic technology, has the experience of Covid given us? Here are just a few examples. Artificial Intelligence .

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Until recently, some experts claimed that a drink a day could improve health. Only this year did the World Health Organization announce that any level of alcohol consumption is harmful. (My Alcohol has even a more muddled clinical history. My PCP told me starkly, “Alcohol is a toxin.”)

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 7, 2024

Patient safety is a critical concern, with the World Health Organization (WHO) estimating that 1 in 10 patients is harmed while receiving healthcare. Adhering to CMS quality measures, such as reducing hospital readmission rates and improving patient safety protocols, helps maintain high standards of care.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2023

A nursing shortage, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, has been fueled largely by high levels of moral distress, politicization, and lack of support. The effort resulted in safer staffing ratios, 170+ new job positions, and a 19% wage increase. Andy Coville, CEO, Brodeur Partners Alice Holland, Ph.D.,

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Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2023

Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic.

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