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Given the surge in the use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic - and expectations for continued growth - the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council has unveiled guidance on safeguarding patient data during remote care encounters.
The recommendations include implementing encryption, enhancing monitoring capabilities and using privileged account management tools.
FAIR Health, a nonprofit organization that tracks health insurance claims data, found that telehealth claims to private insurers grew 4,347% from 2019 to 2020 as a result of remote care during the pandemic, HSCC notes.
And the research firm Frost & Sullivan projects a sevenfold growth of telehealth by 2025.
Maryland has launched a website designed to be helpful in the most unfortunate circumstances. Its purpose is to help schools, homes, houses of worship and businesses prepare for a potential active assailant incident.
The website is a product of Maryland’s Active Assailant Interdisciplinary Work Group, which convened following the Washington Navy Yard shooting in September 2013. The website aims to provide advice from experts on preparedness.
For example, the section on businesses and employees identifies specific behaviors of concern that employers or co-workers might recognize as signaling a potential problem. It also features potential intervention strategies. And in a worst-case scenario, it identifies survival strategies.
America’s low-tech vaccine rollout
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THE VACCINE ROLLOUT S NEW TECH HURDLE: The coronavirus vaccine drive is in disarray and there’s another challenge not garnering a lot of attention: getting patients to take their second shot.
In many cases, the solution is surprisingly low-tech: just a piece of paper to remind people to get their booster three or four weeks later, depending on the shot.
Millions of patients will need to receive their second dose in the coming weeks. But getting patients to the second stage of any medical process is highly difficult, warned Mark Fendrick, a University of Michigan doctor