Quality and Safety

During FutureMed 2020, Sweden's state epidemiologist Dr. Anders Tegnell said he supports the country's decision to keep schools open with social distancing guidance in place.

A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association points to the dissemination of "under-developed and potentially biased models" in response to the novel coronavirus.

The initiative will use a mental health monitoring tool,= developed by Johns Hopkins tech startup Rose to track stress levels among staff and identify triggers.

In an open letter to the Urban Institute, the organizations stressed the importance of asking end users about high-risk functionalities.

Panelists at the ONC Tech Forum on Monday advised mapping the functions of health information exchanges to "confidentiality, integrity and availability."

While it remains "committed to bringing staff back," the company told workers over the weekend that they wouldn't be required to return to campus today. It has also asked Cleveland Clinic and others to assess its reopening plans.

Disinformation and diverging containment strategies have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S., says Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

Frustrated staffers at the Verona campus allege indifference from upper management to the health risks and say there have been efforts to quash dissent. Some say they're looking to unionize in response.

The system, developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, can assess X-ray images and diagnose some conditions, but also appreciates its own limits.