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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 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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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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COVID-19 and digital transformation

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Despite the significant pressures on services across the NHS associated with our COVID-19 response, and indeed because of them, there has been a significant acceleration of digital transformation across many areas of health in the UK. Looking beyond COVID-19.

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A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape

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Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

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Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

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To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients.