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UK COVID-19 tracing policy lag cost lives says expert on app development team

Mobi Health News

Data privacy will be a key focus as development of the government’s NHS tracing app heads toward testing and review. But with release still unlikely for several weeks, one member of the development team suggests that lost time has already cost lives.

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Industry Voices—4 ways medical technology can help prevent the next pandemic, and even help fight this one

FierceHealthIT

The tools for fighting pandemics are right under our noses. The medical technology to help prevent the spread of future infectious agents, and even to fight the one in our midst, exists now.

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GP Connect introduced to all NHS practices and specialist centres to help during COVID-19

Mobi Health News

NHS 111 staff will be enabled to book appointments for patients at appropriate surgeries in the UK.

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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. First off, many residents have died, and news media organizations are now obsessed with counting and re-counting, totaling up the numbers (more than 10,000 as of today) and then counting some more. So many of the 1.5 million residents of nursing homes were already very frail people, needing help with 3 or more ADLs. 72% of residents are women, most are age 85+, and as noted, 'many also have only a small group of family and frie

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Three Big Changes

Docnotes

Prognosticators offer narratives of what the post-pandemic world will look like, and we see leaders invoke Rahm Emanuel (or was it Winston Churchill? ) in their expressions of how they will “ Gretzky ” this. Here’s my take. None of this is particularly prescient, but I’ve been asked a few times what I think comes next. My real answer?

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