It Looks Like The COVIDSafe App Is Still To Really Make A Difference.
This appeared last week: COVIDSafe app didn ’t find contacts Chris Griffith · 2:00AM January 19, 2021 The federal government ’s COVIDSafe app did not uncover contacts of COVID-19 cases in the recent holiday outbreaks. This period includes the South Australian Parafield outbreak starting in mid November, clusters in NSW on the Northern Beaches and Berala, and community transmission cases in Victoria. The Australian conta cted each state and territory to find out the usage of the app. In NSW a health spokesperson said experience to date in NSW had shown that the COVIDSafe ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 28, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
8 Ways Robots Can Enhance Healthcare
Science fiction movies are filled with depictions of medical robots as integral parts of the healthcare system. From Anakin Skywalker’s surgery by autonomous robots to Big Hero 6’s healthcare robot Baymax, these mechanical staffers stayed only within the realm of sci-fi movies and one’s imagination for a long time; but not for much longer. Indeed, as we exemplify in this article, they are steadily making their way into healthcare institutions. The healthcare industry is betting on those potentials as well, with the global medical robot expenditures expected to rise by about 20% by 2025 to reach $24.6 billion.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - January 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Covid-19 Healthcare Design Medical Education Robotics future Hospital Innovation Surgery technology gc4 drones drone delivery robots InTouch Health Veebot Pepper Big Hero 6 UVD Robots Xenex social robots Zipline A Source Type: blogs
When Will Coronavirus Be Over – 2021 Update
2020 has brought previously unseen challenges upon humankind. A virus that, due to globalisation, spread at an unprecedented speed, stormed the entire planet and there is only one thing that can stop it as it is now: a vaccine. And as I wrote in The Medical Futurist vaccine pledge, if you worry about the long-term consequences (which no data indicate for now after having tested the vaccine on tens of thousands of people and vaccinating already millions), you might want to wait out. But then we’ll be in lockdown for years.
Over the past year several lockdowns have taken place. We adopted new habits, learned and worked ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones ptsd healthcare systems data privacy tracking coronavirus covid19 immunity passport vaccine research lockdown Source Type: blogs
When Will COVID-19 Be Over – 2021 Update
2020 has brought previously unseen challenges upon humankind. A virus that, due to globalisation, spread at an unprecedented speed, stormed the entire planet and there is only one thing that can stop it as it is now: a vaccine. And as I wrote in The Medical Futurist vaccine pledge, if you worry about the long-term consequences (which no data indicate for now after having tested the vaccine on tens of thousands of people and vaccinating already millions), you might want to wait out. But then we’ll be in lockdown for years.
Over the past year several lockdowns have taken place. We adopted new habits, learned and worked ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones ptsd healthcare systems data privacy tracking coronavirus covid19 immunity passport vaccine research lockdown Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 25 January, 2021.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. General Comment ----- More activity this week and the flow of news has been improving. Wait another week or so for full return to normal I reckon. ----- https://www.croakey.org/telehealth-consultations-booming-and-here-to-stay-researchers-say/ Telehealth consultations booming and here to stay, researchers say Editor: Nicole MacKee Author: Fran Mollo...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 25, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Animal-Based Medical Diagnostics: A Regulatory Problem
Matthew Avery, Makenzi Galvan, Animal-Based Medical Diagnostics: A Regulatory Problem, Food& Drug L. J. (2020): Fears of global pandemics due to outbreaks of highly virulent diseases like the novel Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) have boosted interest in rapid... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 23, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Global Supply Chains and Economic “Resilience”: (More) Evidence from the Pandemic
Scott LincicomeThe last few months have providedseveralcounterexamples to the trendy claim that “re‐nationalizing” global supply chains for essential goods would have bolstered the United States’ economic “resilience” during the pandemic (and thus is a necessity in the future). As I explain in a forthcoming paper on trade, manufacturing, and national security, these claims ne ver made much sense: “greater trade and investment openness might make an economy more vulnerable to external supply or demand shocks, but it also helps reduce a nation’s vulnerability to (and improve its recovery from) domestic...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
President Trump Reduced Legal Immigration. He Did Not Reduce Illegal Immigration
Alex NowrastehPresident Trump entered the White House with the goal of reducing legal immigration by63 percent. Trump was wildly successful in reducing legal immigration. By November 2020, the Trump administration reduced the number of green cards issued to people abroad by at least 418,453 and the number of non ‐immigrant visas by at least 11,178,668 during his first term through November 2020. President Trump also entered the White House with the goal of eliminating illegal immigration but Trump oversaw a virtual collapse in interior immigration enforcement and the stabilization of the illegal immig rant population...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
How Do They Hack Hospitals? – Cyberthreats In The Digital Health Era
Discussion about cyberthreats is and will increasingly be crucial in the medical field so as to better address and prevent them. This issue is particularly concerning as the world is increasingly turning to digital solutions to access healthcare while we must limit physical visits.
However, these discussions should not revolve only around strengthening the IT infrastructure with anti-malwares. This won’t cut it as, in addition to the technological component, there’s very much a social component in hacking into healthcare facilities. Let’s decrypt how this is the case; and consider additional measures that all of u...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 19, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Healthcare Policy Security & Privacy Hospital data security cybercrime cybersecurity wannacry ransomware data breach hipaa virus NHS cyberattack Acronis Mandiant social hacking Kevin Mitnick Rapid7 social eng Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: New Study Reports First-Hand Accounts of 1955 Hospital Outbreak
By David Tuller, DrPH The name myalgic encephalomyelitis is inextricably linked with an outbreak of what appeared by all accounts to be a viral illness at London’s Royal Free Hospital in the second half of 1955. More than 200 people, most of them female staff and students, fell ill. Some reported long-term complications. Although no […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 15, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
All you need to know about waterborne diseases
Waterborne diseases are contracted through exposure to contaminated water including drinking water, water used in food preparation, and swimming water.
They can be caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Below is a partial list of waterborne disease pathogens, their microbial classification, and their resulting illnesses.
Classification
Microorganism
Disease
Bacterium
Campylobacter spp.
Campylobacteriosis
Bacterium
Escherichia coli
E. Coli Diarrhea
Bacterium
Legionella pneumophila
Legionnaires’ Disease
Bacterium
Salmonella enterica
Salmonellosis
Bacterium
Salmonella typhi
Typhoid fever
...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 14, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Microbiology News Tips Source Type: blogs
How Will We Finally End COVID-19? – The Pledge
In 2020, we all suffered a blow. No matter where you live or what industry you work in, you got hit by the pandemic. Out of nowhere, our everyday lives have significantly changed. Most of us tried to pull it together and find out how to move forward; and ultimately it turned out that the only reliable answer to this global challenge for all of us is science.
For what is clear for me as a doctor, a scientist and as a human being, is that we could only move forward with an efficient vaccine,and if everyone around the globe lets vaccinate themselves.
That is when the period of hope can begin
Long before the summer, I...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 14, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy fda fake news WHO lockdown vaccine Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker The New York Times misonformation EMEA Source Type: blogs
How Will We Finally End COVID-19? – The Medical Futurist Pledge On Vaccination
In 2020, we all suffered a blow. No matter where you live or what industry you work in, you got hit by the pandemic. Out of nowhere, our everyday lives have significantly changed. Most of us tried to pull it together and find out how to move forward; and ultimately it turned out that the only reliable answer to this global challenge for all of us is science.
For what is clear for me as a doctor, a scientist and as a human being, is that we could only move forward with an efficient vaccine,and if everyone around the globe lets vaccinate themselves.
That is when the period of hope can begin
Long before the summer, I...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 14, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy fda fake news WHO lockdown vaccine Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker The New York Times misonformation EMEA Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 9: The AAA
George SelginHaving devoted thelasttwo posts inmy New Deal series to the NRA, I may have given readers the impression that I had nothing to say about the consequences of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) passed more than a month before the National Recovery Act. As this series is about the New Deal's contribution to economic recovery, you perhaps assumed that I skipped the AAA because it was a farm relief and reform measure only, and not an important part of FDR's recovery strategy.If so, you were mistaken, for I realize that FDR saw the AAA and NRA as twin pillars of his recovery plan. The NRA was supposed to boost ma...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 11, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
A resident ’s perspective on personal loss and patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic
The day before the United States border with Canada shut down to non-essential travelers, my mother left Chicago to take care of my grandparents who lived by themselves in Ottawa, Canada. With the COVID outbreaks at nursing homes, she took it upon herself to stay with them as long as they needed her. During the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/suzy-oskouie" rel="tag" > Suzy Oskouie, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
