[Reprinted: Inside Aging, 7-24-2020] The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risks for seniors who receive in-home elder care. Caregivers use masks, handwashing, and social distancing to increase the safety of home visits, but for many, reducing the frequency of visits can be a valuable piece in the puzzle of pandemic safety protocol. Telemedicine can meet a percentage of service needs while … [Read more...]
Coronavirus cases in the Caribbean to date: 83,821
[Reprinted: Loop Caribbean News, 7-24-2020] Confirmed Caribbean coronavirus cases as of today, July 24: Dominican Republic- 57,615 cases, 1006 deaths, 26,905 recovered Haiti- 7197 cases, 154 deaths, 4236 recovered French Guiana- 7086 cases, 40 deaths, 5376 recovered Puerto Rico- 4794 cases, 191 deaths Cuba- 2466 cases, 87 deaths, 2339 recovered Suriname … [Read more...]
Study Shows Electronic Health Records Improving But Safety Concerns Remain
[Reprinted: Pew Research Center, 6-11-2020] Clinical support tools still miss medication errors nearly a third of the time! Despite a decade of efforts to improve the performance of electronic health record (EHR) systems, clinicians’ use of some functions still frequently result in errors that can put patients at risk of unnecessary harm, according to a study recently published in the Journal … [Read more...]
Banner Health’s New Telemedicine Platform Enables In-Patient Monitoring
[Reprinted: mHealth Intelligence, 7-20-2020] Caught in the throes of one of the current coronavirus hotspots, Arizona’s Banner Health is using telemedicine technology to transform televisions into remote monitoring platforms to care for patients infected with COVID-19. Using technology from Intel and VeeMed, nearly 1,000 TVs have been modified to allow hospital staff to check on patients … [Read more...]
COVID-19 in Caribbean small island states: lessons learnt from extreme weather events
[Reprinted: The Lancet Global Health, 7/2/2020] The UN recognises 58 small island developing states, with 29 in the Caribbean. The World Bank classifies most of the Caribbean islands as middle-income or high-income countries, and the UN Human Development Index is generally categorised as high across the region (2018 values range between 0·7 and 0·8). Despite these positive development … [Read more...]
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