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A new COVID-19 wave is coming – how can health systems prepare?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We learned how fragile the supply chain is, particularly for critical items like personal protective equipment and ventilators," Krass continued. "Because of the nature of the virus causing a big increase in ventilated patients, you need a certain number of drugs in order to intubate those patients," Krass said.

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Disabilities and Accessibility in Health IT: The Need Is Constant – Part 1

Healthcare IT Today

Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. Jerome mentioned the experiences of their CTO, who is in a wheelchair and requires a ventilator. The tools are doing better, though.

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Boston Medical Center boosts care for epileptic kids with telehealth-analytics platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message. Another success story Douglass points to is one child who was on a ventilator at home and had increasing seizures with any transportation to the hospital. ” The application also has done more than staff expected.

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Person-First Safe Living in a Pandemic: Part 2: Finding Guidance

Society for Participatory Medicine

What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. What Is a Ventilator? Tagging is further search refinement. Next, let’s talk about metadata (data about data) and tagging. Some platforms use hashtags; some use free form tags; some have internal tags. Medline Plus. Short summary.

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