Jacob Jeppson, Director of Analysis, Arch Collaborative, KLAS In a time when it seemed we couldn’t have been further apart, what we needed was to come together — intellectually speaking, that is. At the beginning of the pandemic, before everything shut down, we were fortunate enough to be preparing for our committee meetings with Arch… Read More »
Coronavirus tests are to be carried out on more people in the government’s monitoring programme to get a better idea of the spread of the virus. The Office for National Statistics’ Infection Survey will test 150,000 people a fortnight in England by October, up from 28,000 now. The survey is separate from the mass testing… Read More »
May 8th, 2020 Cici Zhou Cardiology, Medicine VitalConnect announced that it has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization status for use of its VitalPatch to detect changes in the QT interval of hospitalized patients undergoing drug treatment for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, used to treat some COVID-19 patients, are associated with risk of prolonged QT interval that… Read More »
Toilets are currently used for disposing of human waste. But researchers see tremendous value in the metabolic information contained in urine as a source of real-time monitoring of peoples’ health. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research are working on a proof of principle for an integrated “smart toilet” system… Read More »
The State of Maryland is getting new software to collect information about controlled substances dispensed in the state to facilitate better data sharing. The RxGov prescription drug monitoring platform, from NIC, provides near real-time data that will integrate with the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), the state health information exchange. Data also… Read More »
An American who may have been exposed to Ebola while in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Nebraska to be monitored, the medical facility revealed Saturday. (Nebraska Medicine) An American who may have been exposed to the lethal disease Ebola while in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Nebraska to be monitored, the… Read More »