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COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria

Healthcare It News

In return, the Austrian government loosened public restrictions. Germany has introduced compulsory COVID-19 vaccination limited to all employees in hospitals, nursing homes, facilities for the disabled, emergency services, medical surgeries and maternity facilities which must be applied by mid March. WHY IT MATTERS.

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NEC expands digital elderly care system trial to Chiang Mai

Healthcare It News

NEC Thailand is helping the local government to brace for the impact of an ageing population, particularly the increase in healthcare demand, by digitising care delivery for the elderly. It first tried out the Mimamori (meaning "to watch over and protect" in Japanese) system with a nursing home in Chiang Mai last year.

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Sweet Land of Immunity

Bill of Health

Taffy for the nursing homes, lollipops for the device manufacturers…. for protecting the not-sovereign sovereigns: “governments must have discretion”. (to But in the crisis, immunities rained down, Tossed freely around like candy at a 4th of July parade. Most healthy, smiling faces in the crowd got some. just raise your hand.

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Thammasat University Hospital taps NEC Thailand to digitise elderly care

Healthcare It News

THE LARGER TREND NEC Thailand has been helping local governments brace for the impact of an ageing population. Last year, the company launched a proof of concept trial of NEC's Japan-borne digital elderly care system called Mimamori in a nursing home in Chiang Mai.

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Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work

Bill of Health

spread between nursing homes. These facilities, like most nursing homes, are for-profit businesses that pad their margins by cutting labor costs. In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities. Recall that the first COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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GIS Data Sharing – A Model for Healthcare Data Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

At the micro-level, the lack of data interoperability means that patient data cannot be easily shared between the hospital that the patient visited and the family physician that regularly takes care of them…or between the nursing home and the urgent care clinic. It doesn’t have to be this way. Inspiration From Outside of Healthcare.