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As pressure mounts to return employees back to the workplace, even as COVID-19 continues to spread, healthcare organizations need to implement data-driven guidelines and testing processes to help ensure safety.
Rapid Supplier Connect is designed to help health systems and government agencies identify and onboard alternative vendors when certain supplies and PPE are in shortage.
Guard Sanitizing Gate is a walk-through offering that features an automatic 360-degree disinfection barrier that reportedly kills 99.9% of germs and viruses.
A proposal: Create a Federal Reserve-type structure for supply chain management of protective equipment, powered by distributed ledger technology.
In a HIMSS20 Digital session, they cover the human element to IT, some panic, disaster recovery plans, CIOs supporting employees and more.
What’s more, at Peconic Bay Medical Center, the point-of-care tech for physicians led to a 13.5% boost in charge codes captured and a whopping 490% jump in patient satisfaction.
Preparedness, communication and a willingness to innovate are some ways in which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have adapted their healthcare systems in response to COVID-19.
The current crisis has been called a 'once in a career opportunity to transform the NHS.' Instead, perhaps we should call it 'a once in a career opportunity to reduce health inequalities and discrimination.
A new report also finds that because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 18% of physicians plan to retire, temporarily close their practices or opt out of patient care completely.