[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...]
Jamaica: Garth Rattray | Fast-Track Support Systems For Telemedicine – Pt 2
[Reprinted: The Gleaner, 7/13/2020] Under the current Pharmacy Act, if an asthmatic patient travels to Trelawny but does not have the usual rescue inhaler that is urgently needed to abort an oncoming asthma attack; and if his/her physician is in St Andrew, the physician is prevented from calling in or otherwise sending in a prescription for the life-saving medication unless there is a certainty … [Read more...]
Coronavirus cases in the Caribbean to date: 71,825
[Reprinted: Loop Caribbean News, 7-17-2020] Confirmed Caribbean coronavirus cases as of today, July 17: Dominican Republic- 48,743 cases, 941 deaths, 23,636 recovered Haiti- 6948 cases, 145 deaths, 3606 recovered French Guiana- 6393 cases, 34 deaths, 3818 recovered Puerto Rico- 3272 cases, 177 deaths Cuba- 2444 cases, 87 deaths, 2300 recovered Suriname -919 cases, 19 deaths, … [Read more...]
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