Tag: CORONAVIRUS
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Telehealth is an important tool for rural hospitals in treating COVID-19, research shows
Rural hospitals are more likely than urban facilities to have access to telehealth, a once-underused service that now is playing a key role in treating COVID-19 ... -
How One Physician Practice Was Transformed by HR-Embedded Telehealth
As a family medicine practitioner, Dr. Dillon Miller, medical director at Blue Ridge Medical Group in Blue Ridge, Georgia, was faced with challenges erupting from the ... -
Why the pandemic has energized hospital unions
COVID-19 is strengthening the hand of unions looking to organize more healthcare workers. During the pandemic, unions representing nurses and other front-line medical staffers have stepped ... -
WHO Pauses Hydroxychloroquine Clinical Trial
The World Health Organization is halting its human trial of hydroxychloroquine, an antiviral drug used for malaria, due to concerns about lethal side effects, the organization ... -
Putting Patient Experience At The Center Of Care
In the rapidly changing modern healthcare environment, it is no longer tenable to collect patient feedback in an old-fashioned manner. The consumer patient of today is ... -
Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates
After studying global data from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, researchers have discovered a strong correlation between severe vitamin D deficiency and mortality rates. Led by ... -
Researchers Analyse 17.4 Million NHS Patient EHRs In The World’s Largest Study To Date On COVID-19 Deaths
A study on behalf of NHS England analysed the electronic health records (EHRs) of 17.4 million UK adults, to examine the risk factors associated with death ... -
Coronavirus Patient DNA Study Could Tell Us Why Some Fare Worse
Thousands of UK patients who have fallen ill with coronavirus will have their genomes read in a major study to understand how a person’s DNA affects ... -
‘New Mechanism For Stroke?’: Blood clotting in Coronavirus patients has experts looking at role of viruses in causing stroke
A growing body of evidence is painting a grim picture of how coronavirus can wreak havoc from one end of the body to the other. It’s ...