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Experts urge surge plan discussions as coronavirus begins spread in U.S.

FierceHealthIT

It's time for U.S. hospitals to dust off their playbooks for dealing with surges of patients, experts said. It's among the considerations providers should be considering as COVID-19 begins spreading around the U.S.

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Have MHD Clients? What Infrastructure should you deploy>

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I am working up a set of decisions around the use of XDS vs XCA vs MHDS. In the past XDS was used when one wanted to create a Document Sharing HIE, and XCA was used to federate XDS Document Sharing HIE and add in EHR based Document publications. Now IHE has the MHDS infrastructure, so the question is likely to come up. Mostly if you have XDS clients, you need to continue to use XDS or XCA. -- Add MHD as an API to enable MHD clients If you have no legacy, then it is possible that MHDS is the righ

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No mean ‘feet’

New Age Healthcare

M ost adults have a gap under the inner aspect of the feet which is called arch. Absence if this arch leads to development of flat foot, also known as pes-planus. It causes the entire sole of the foot, including the inner aspect to touch the ground when standing. A study conducted by doctors at King George’s Medical University orthopedic department (Lucknow, India) revealed that over 90% of overweight or obese kids develop a flat foot.

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