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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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The state’s growing army of contact tracers have contacted roughly 11% of the more than 34,000 Georgians who have tested positive so far for COVID-19, according to an analysis of Department of Public Health numbers. -
The hope is that the shoe-leather work of contact tracing could be supplemented by the use of mobile apps. A few states have already deployed GPS location technology, and an alternate technology is in development.
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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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