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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 course, which is open to anyone who wants to take it for free, is six hours long, and it’s being offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Hundreds have already enrolled.
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The scientific community is churning out vast quantities of research about the coronavirus pandemic – far too much for researchers to absorb. An AI system aims to do the heavy lifting for them.
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Some privacy and security experts have expressed cautious optimism that new private-sector efforts could be potentially useful tools to aid public health contact tracers while protecting privacy.
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Modern 911 dispatch centers are relying on new technologies to bridge the information gaps typical of landline telephone calls. Now, dispatchers and first responders are pulling data with new tools to improve public safety.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exacerbate issues of mental and behavioral health across the country, it is also constraining the abilities of those whose job is to provide treatment for them.
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Per a state mandate from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, every local library is physically closed, said Marilyn Jenkins, executive director of the Allegheny County Library Association.
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In the midst of the crisis, many health-care providers are seeing patients online to minimize person-to-person. The looming question for the industry is to what extent telemedicine has taken root since mid-March.
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Across the globe, medical and health tech startups are pivoting to face masks and other COVID-19-related products such as testing kits as the new coronavirus puts a spotlight on health-care innovation.
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Plus, IBM’s Call for Code content has now named three winners with projects related to the crisis, a new economic tracker is visualizing the impact of the ongoing crisis in real time, and more.
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Hewlett Packard’s Cray Sentinel supercomputer is being used in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Similar supercomputers have been used in drug discovery in the past by modeling how a given compound might affect viruses.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended an order allowing governments and other public bodies to meet digitally as the coronavirus pandemic continues. The provisions will remain in place through June 30.
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The state’s secretary of digital information says Oklahoma is prepared to handle hundreds of thousands of claims and billions of state and federal dollars through Granicus’ digital services platform.
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SponsoredAs this pandemic unfolds, health-care workers may be putting themselves at higher risk of severe disease just by doing their jobs during a time when protective equipment is in short supply.
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Armed with a cellphone and laptop, one school nurse makes calls to county residents who have tested positive for the virus, and she is one of 16 school nurses in Maryland redeployed to help during the pandemic.
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Timely and consistent interactions between patient and doctor foster a long-term relationship and build continuity of care – a simple, yet an often-overlooked aspect of our nation's health-care system.
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Some experts believe that the temporary expansion of telehealth services will have lasting effects and that offerings will remain as a widely available option long after the novel coronavirus pandemic ends.
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The lawsuit filed by a group of 911 dispatchers at about a dozen suburban emergency departments in Illinois to share the location of novel coronavirus patients was blocked by a Cook County judge Friday.
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The goal of taking daily attendance isn’t to crack down on absentees, but to monitor that students are faring well through the pandemic, say Pennsylvania school officials working to keep students engaged.
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