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Medicare began covering telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic and has maintained the popular offering through temporary waivers approved by Congress since. -
Modernizing benefits delivery is no longer a question of “if,” it’s a question of “how well.” Making benefits more easily accessible improves staff workload, increases user satisfaction and improves outcomes.
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Technology that can track whether students, and even college football fans, are feeling symptoms of COVID-19 could be a major part of the plan to reopen Alabama college campuses and stadiums this fall. -
A device originally designed by Northwestern University engineers to record progress in stroke patients has been repurposed to study the effects of COVID-19 as it runs its course through the human body.
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State and local agencies face a host of challenges as they prepare to restart business. With the help of tech, knowing how to plan for short- and long-term needs, post pandemic, can make the difference.
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Though restaurant inspections have begun ramping back up in recent weeks, routine, in-person health inspections have been severely curtailed in Hampton Roads, Va., since the end of March.
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Over the next several weeks and months, courts around the country must figure out how to resume operations in a way that keeps employees and visitors safe, yet also safeguards the constitutional guarantee to a jury trial.
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A group protesting the governor’s stay-home orders at the state’s capitol in late April says the tool meant to observe the spread of the novel coronavirus should not have been used to track their whereabouts.
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Across the nation, untold numbers of employers, employees and others are turning to a slew of sometimes pricey new COVID-19 blood tests as efforts to track and trace the virus factor into reopening plans.
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Since COVID-19 forced people to stay home to mitigate spread of the virus, telehealth practices have rapidly expanded. Health care professionals believe that telehealth will stay even after the end of the pandemic.
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Shair is a real-time, air-quality monitoring tool that measures particulate matter, nitrogen oxide and several other pollutants, subsequently making the findings easily understandable for all users.
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"Scattered Canary" is an agile, sophisticated hacker group that recently made off with millions of dollars stolen from the Washington state unemployment system. It has targeted similar systems across the country.
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SponsoredSince the time of the Antonine Plague, humankind has been endangered by deadly diseases of epic proportions. Today, instead of leaving people’s lives solely to fate, governments manage risks by employing technological tools.
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While Ohio’s stay-at-home order closed non-essential businesses and kept most people indoors, the opioid epidemic did not abate. Stats show drug overdose deaths have remained fairly steady over the past three months.
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Twice in recent weeks, the city council in Norton, Ohio, was forced to cancel public meetings due to technical difficulties. Like others, the council has shifted during the coronavirus crisis to livestreamed meetings.
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Years of research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have produced an airborne substance that can eradicate harmful microorganisms, including COVID-19.
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While the technology has been helpful in connecting doctors to their patients, there are still kinks to be worked out. Spotty Internet access, technological skills gaps and a lack of physical connection remain challenging.
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