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

Healthcare It News

Lab kits delivered by Uber for preventive care Portland, Oregon-based Reperio Health startup, which offers test kits by delivery, signed an agreement with Uber to deliver a kit to a person’s home within an hour of ordering it, GreekWire reported this month.

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CDC COCA Call Today: What Clinicians Need to Know About Monkeypox + CDC Advisory 

Briggs Healthcare

Public Health Service Medical Officer, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Webinar ID : 160 186 1381. PRESENTERS. Agam Rao, MD, FIDSA CAPT, U.S. Brett Petersen, MD, MPH CAPT, U.S.

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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. Their mission is to help every individual in San Mateo County live longer and healthier lives.

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Information Blocking Rule: 6 Key Takeaways Since Meaningful Use

HIT Consultant

The first class of exceptions contains those that reflect a decision or inability to not fulfill requests to access, exchange or use EHI: the Preventing Harm, Privacy, Security, Infeasibility, and Health IT Performance Exceptions. Update your information exchange strategy.

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Recovering Routine Immunization Rates — State Strategies to Move beyond COVID-19 

NASHP

In the United States, new data indicate that nearly 27 percent of surveyed households had at least one or more children who missed or delayed a preventive visit because of the pandemic. New strategies are needed to identify and catch-up children who have missed routine immunizations to prevent future outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.

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State-Level Strategies for Supporting Community-Level Harm Reduction: Case Studies from Georgia, Maryland, Utah, and Vermont

NASHP

Harm reduction strategies — or interventions intended to prevent overdoses and reduce negative outcomes related to drug use — are backed by research and have been operational in the U.S. However, access to legally sanctioned and publicly funded harm reduction services has varied in practice. for decades.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: About This Toolkit and Our Framework

NASHP

As state and local governments took increasing responsibility for public health in the 20th century, public health achievements such as vaccinations, workplace protections, and flouridation of drinking water have contributed to dramatic increases in life expectancy.