What You Should Know:
– Accenture Federal Services has been awarded a substantial $190 million contract from the U.S. Department of State.
– The company will provide critical data and systems engineering support to the President’s…
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What You Should Know:
– Verily, a precision health technology company, announced a significant expansion of its wastewater surveillance program into the United Kingdom through an exclusive partnership with Bangor University.
– This collaboration will leverage the university’s…
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I haven’t heard much chatter in the informatics community about what the United States Surgeon General recently named as a public health challenge: parent and caregiver stress. Dr. Vivek Murthy called on legislators as…
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Healthcare organizations are high-value targets for bad actors due to the nature of the business: the need to provide continuous patient care while protecting patient data. In fact, of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors…
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What You Should Know:
– Noom, a digital healthcare company, is shaking up the weight loss industry with the launch of Noom GLP-1Rx, an innovative program offers affordable, accessible, and sustainable weight loss by combining…
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AI alert. One of the topics around the public health informatics virtual water cooler this week was about whether Google’s AI Overviews are negatively impacting patients.
Physicians have had a longstanding love / hate…
In pandemic mitigation, strategies such as social distancing and mask-wearing are vital to prevent disease resurgence. Yet, monitoring adherence is challenging, as individuals might be reluctant to share behavioral data with public health authorities….
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SDPR foundation developedThe “landing zone” for the Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR) in New South Wales has been set.
According to eHealth NSW, the landing zone, developed with Epic and Amazon Web Services, is the “secure,…
Background: Mobile health (mHealth) technologies are increasingly used in contact tracing and case finding, enhancing and replacing traditional methods for managing infectious diseases such as Ebola, tuberculosis, COVID-19, and HIV. However, the variations in…
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AllianceChicago is a unique organization. A federally funded health center network of more than 76 community health centers operating in more than 23 states, its work is centered on improving personal, community and public…
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