Health & Human Services
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Multiple hospitals in rural Minnesota are reporting that Medicare is incorrectly rejecting claims for patient care due to a problem that appears to be related to a system put in place last year. -
The state is modernizing a legacy mainframe, working with federal counterparts and participating in the Child Welfare Technology Incubator initiative from the Administration for Children and Families.
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The hand-held, artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram, or ECG for short, has the ability to process the data as well as the larger machines that the paramedics have in their toolbox.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Wednesday announced the agency is investing $781,127 to provide telemedicine software and equipment to bolster health-care access in central Kansas.
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The dashboard is the result of a collaborative effort between a professor at Brown University, a private software company called Qualtrics, and school officials from districts across the country.
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The app, called "COVID Alert NY," employs Bluetooth technology to record whenever users come within close proximity of each other, but officials say it's anonymous and collects no personal or geographic data.
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Lawrence General Hospital officials are working through the details of exactly what happened during a disruptive cybersecurity incident earlier this month. The 36-hour disruptions forced ambulances to be diverted.
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The school district in Burlington, Iowa, has expanded its COVID-19 data sharing dashboard, reconfiguring it to more closely resemble a previous version before the state issued data sharing guidance.
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The state is set to receive $3.9 million as part of a multistate lawsuit filed against Anthem following a “massive” data breach in 2014, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced Wednesday.
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Once meetings are able to return in-person, some St. Joseph County, Ind., officials say they would like to see local government meetings permanently move to an in-person/virtual hybrid meeting format.
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Within a month, Connecticut residents may be able to access smartphone alerts if they have had possible contact with COVID-19 patients, Gov. Ned Lamont announced as the state reported a spike in positive tests.
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The contact tracing app has been downloaded more than 77,000 times since it was launched for smartphone users Tuesday. The state health department's goal is to reach 100,000 downloads by next week.
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New technology that uses Wi-Fi and bluetooth signals to count people is being used to reduce COVID-19 exposure in high-traffic areas like libraries, gyms and other locations on several campuses.
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The state Department of Health and Human Services launched the SlowCOVIDNC app Tuesday as a way of providing alerts and resources to people believed to have been exposed to the novel coronavirus.
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An investigation into the May cyberattack against University of Missouri Health Care indicates that sensitive personal information — including Social Security numbers — of some patients was compromised.
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The Oregon Health Authority announced its plans to pilot a smartphone-based contact tracing application later this year. The app would allow those potentially exposed to the coronavirus to get notifications.
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County commissioners have approved a contract with Orlando-based Archer First Response Systems LLC for a drone that would deliver life-saving medical supplies at the discretion of emergency dispatchers.
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(TNS) — As the coronavirus pandemic ramped up across the United States early in 2020, Massachusetts officials began to implement a variety of measures aimed at staving off transmission of the viral respiratory infection and protecting the public.
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Texts and emails to more than 6,700 Mecklenburg County residents alerted them to erroneous positive coronavirus tests. County health officials say the messages were the result of a technical glitch.
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The Orangeburg County, S.C., School District has developed a mobile application that can link its students and their families with telehealth services, doing so by partnering with local facilities and nonprofit groups.
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UV disinfection is a proven means of killing pathogens like the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but it's not risk-free.
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