Employers look at robots, algorithms and wearable devices to make post-Covid workplaces safer.
@karldavidolson “I'm not sure I will have patients who want to return to the office when that time comes. Nearly everybody tells me they will stick with #telehealth indefinitely even when COVID is gone.Most security companies send a technician to your home. SimpliSafe doesn’t. Order online. Set it up in 30 minutes. After that, you’re protected 24/7.A 12-week internal review of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ turbulent digital health record rollout in Spokane, Wash.
The new medical record system, first championed by former White House adviser Jared Kushner, is officially projected to cost $16 billion over a decade — though congressional oversight panels warn it can cost billions more. VA Secretary Denis McDonough said last week the review already has led to unnamed improvements and final decisions over the program’s future are forthcoming.
“However you do it, it will take dollars,” said Allan Coukell, senior vice president of public policy at Civica Rx, a nonprofit generic drug company.of looking overseas for essential medicines. Twenty-nine of 40 critical drugs for treating Covid-19 were in shortage at various points in 2020, including common painkillers, the asthma drug albuterol and medicines used to sedate patients on ventilators, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota.
hands-on hygiene training in rooms inspired by “The Walking Dead,” “Harry Potter” and the board game Scrabble. to start a mobile version in a bus that travels to regional clinics and can simulate an overflow facility when the regular hospital runs out of beds. And the department