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What Will Make Asynchronous Virtual Care a Common Reality?

People have wholeheartedly embraced asynchronous communication around the globe. In business and social circles, communicating with tools such as text messaging, Google Docs and Slack is now par for the course. So it’s not surprising that the demand for asynchronous healthcare experiences – telemedicine delivered as the store-and-forward transmission of medical images and data over […]

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Amazon confirms nationwide expansion of telehealth services

After months of rumor, Amazon confirmed Wednesday that it would be expanding its Amazon Care app-based services to its employees across the United States this summer.   The announcement also said that Amazon Care would be available this week to serve other companies based in Washington.   Finally, Amazon Care’s in-person service will expand to […]

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PRSB launches vendor scheme to support integrated care

The UK Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has recently launched the Standards Partnership Scheme, a targeted programme to recognise and support vendors across the UK. It will specifically focus on vendors that are implementing professionally endorsed record standards to improve and integrate care through interoperability. The venture is supported by NHS and social care system […]

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Epic, Cerner offer updates on COVID-19 vaccine rollout efforts

Cerner and Epic each announced this past week that they’ve hit milestones in their efforts to assist with COVID-19 vaccinations.   On Friday, Cerner announced that 175 clients across 11 countries had installed its Mass Vaccination solution.   Epic, meanwhile, said on Thursday that it was supporting 100 community-based vaccination locations across the country, with […]

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MIT researchers use AI to find drugs that could be repurposed for COVID-19

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced this week that researchers had used machine learning to identify medications that may be repurposed to fight COVID-19.   “Making new drugs takes forever,” Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society, said in a […]

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New AI model can predict length of COVID-19 hospitalization

A group of Israeli scientists published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week showcasing how a machine learning model can predict the illness trajectory of COVID-19 patients by using individual characteristics.   The model predicts the patient’s disease course in terms of clinical states – moderate, severe or critical – […]

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Mayo Clinic COVID-19 patients likely had better outcomes thanks to RPM

Research published this week in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that COVID-19 patients who received care at Mayo Clinic had favorable outcomes compared to those reported nationally. One factor contributing to those favorable outcomes, said researchers, was the clinic’s remote monitoring capabilities allowing for early detection of complications or clinical deterioration. “By including subject matter experts from […]

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A word of thanks to frontline health workers

As we near the end of a demanding and tumultuous 2020, and on behalf of all Cerner associates, I want to express appreciation for Cerner’s clients and all the frontline health workers around the world who have sacrificed so much in the fight against COVID-19. In a year defined by what will likely be the […]