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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

Healthcare It News

Improvements in public health case administration, faster prior authorizations for specialty medications and rideshare delivery of lab kits for wellness are just a few interesting goals making vendor news in April.

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How a simple QR code can avoid 2,000 ED admissions

Healthcare It News

Gold Coast Health, a public health service in Queensland, has recently introduced a new digital front door for chronic disease patients. The General Medicine-Rapid Access Service (G-RAS) offers an alternative pathway for patient management.

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South Metropolitan Health Service digitises its pre-surgery program

Healthcare It News

WHY IT MATTERS SMHS, which provides hospital and community-based public health care services in southern metropolitan Perth, started the LifeFit SurgFit in 2020-2021 as a "holistic approach" to preparing patients for surgery.

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San Mateo County Health Selects Innovaccer’s Healthcare AI Platform

HIT Consultant

It provides healthcare services in the county through eleven divisions, nine of which provide a wide range of clinical care, family and adult social services, and regulatory oversight and public health services.

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HHS Announces Updates to Policies on Research Misconduct

HKLaw

HHS Office of Research Integrity released Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct to respond to technological changes and clarify requirements for addressing research misconduct.

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How IVAs is Helping Care Providers and Patients Deal with Delta Variant

HIT Consultant

While IVAs can be customized, many come pre-configured with tasks that easily integrate with back-end systems and patient databases, which makes it easy to quickly launch and update them as needed. This can be done for individual outreach or to share an alert with thousands of patients.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: About This Toolkit and Our Framework

NASHP

Although efforts to modernize public health systems predate the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned from successful community and cross-sector partnerships in pandemic response (see Lessons Learned on Public Health-Health System Collaboration during the COVID-19 Pandemic ) underscore the need to further integrate these systems toward common goals.