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VA healthcare slated for modernization; COVID-19 testing required for nursing home staffs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Government & Policy Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: VA healthcare slated for modernization; COVID-19 testing required for nursing home staffs Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Nursing community collaboration on the European COVID-19 front-lines

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Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Lack of testing adds to pressure. are lower than Spain (9.7)

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UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19

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Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Additional details can be found on the UW Medicine COVID-19 Resource Site.

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Nursing home transparency needs more than Covid-19 case-counting

Aging in Place Technology Watch

No understatement, these are very difficult times for nursing homes. million residents of nursing homes were already very frail people, needing help with 3 or more ADLs. Meanwhile, a wave of nursing home ‘transparency’ directives emerges from CMS , the nursing home regulator. So many of the 1.5 Most important?

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

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By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines. More than 1.2

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Client remote monitoring for home care agencies -- why and what?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. But home care agencies can offer private pay RPM services. Passive activity monitoring assists with safety and wellbeing.

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Six Covid-19 Aging and Health Technology blog posts from May 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

We have been incredulous, watching older adults die alone in a nursing home , and then dying in many nursing homes. Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? Nursing homes – consternation, condemnation are words that rule the day. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.