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Smiths Medical Partners With Parkview Health to Enhance Patient and Clinician Safety

Apr 15, 2021

Smiths Medical, a global medical device manufacturer, announced today that Parkview Health, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana., has integrated its PharmGuard ® Infusion Management System with its electronic health record system to establish bi-directional interoperability across all hospital in its health system. Connected through their Epic electronic health record (EHR), this integration will enable smart pump programming and auto...

E Ink and IntelliCentrics Work Together to Create an Eco-Friendly Smart Badge with ePaper Display as a Medical Credentialing Solution

Apr 13, 2021

BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 12, 2021-- E Ink Holdings, “E Ink” (8069.TW), the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, today announced its partnership with IntelliCentrics, the innovator of the SEC³URE Ethos, SEC³URE Passport, Link & GO!, BioBytes™ and BioBytes™ Visitor, serving healthcare facilities across North America, the United Kingdom, and China, in developing a smart badge with...

Chronic Stress Could Still Affect Mental Health Years After COVID-19

Mar 30, 2021

The American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey has revealed that Americans were under greater stress in 2020 than in previous years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This stress could have an impact for years to come. No one is immune to stress, but certain groups, like Gen Z teens and young adults, have been particularly affected. Connectedness and self-care are important ways we can become more...

New program helps shift unemployed Georgians into allied health careers

Mar 23, 2021

ATLANTA - Lawrenceville resident Mylyn Ho is focused on her new career as an ophthalmic assistant and already has a full-time job lined up with an optometrist after she graduates in April from Ocuprep --an Allied Health training program that combines virtual and socially distant in-person instruction. "It's very exciting for me to enter a new field. I just wanted to get out and try something new after years of working in...

Policies To Improve Health Insurance Coverage as America Recovers From COVID-19

Mar 16, 2021

One year ago this month, the first wave of COVID-19 cases in the United States led to widespread job loss throughout the country. 1 Early in the pandemic, there was serious concern that the impact of these job losses would lead millions of workers to lose job-based health insurance coverage, causing a dramatic spike in uninsurance. Evidence to date suggests that the number of uninsured people has not risen as greatly as...

How nurses, midwives can have a greater impact in the new normal

Mar 11, 2021

COMMENT | Judith Hope Kiconco | It’s already March, the last month of the first quarter of 2021 and we are still in challenging times full of uncertainty due to COVID-19. There is little to cling on as the world keeps moving and waits for no man. Unplanned eventualities such as pandemics, political tension, financial hardships are worsening the already worrying circumstances. Like everyone else, nurses and midwives are...

Study reveals dietary factors associated with mental health

Mar 08, 2021

Although there is a well-established relationship between diet and physical health, the associations between diet and mental health remain largely undiscovered . A team of researchers recently used survey data to investigate the role that diet plays in mental health . Key findings include the associations that mental distress has with caffeine and fast food and the increased mental well-being that comes with higher...

Gaining Knowledge One Database At A Time

Mar 02, 2021

On Feb. 26, Kean’s Nancy Thompson Library Learning Commons (NTLC) held an Allied Health Digital Library Resources Webinar. Kean students were exposed to the many databases on the NTLC website that can help them find health and medical information. The goal of this workshop was to guide students into access to evidence-based healthcare information. The Nancy Thompson Learning Commons is a great...

Loma Linda University students play crucial role in providing COVID-19 vaccines to community

Feb 24, 2021

A Loma Linda University School of Nursing student chats with a community member about what to expect from the COVID-19 vaccine. Loma Linda University health professions students are playing a crucial role in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in San Bernardino County by administering tens of thousands of vaccines to patients from throughout the Inland Empire. Several hundred students from School of Allied Health...

A U.S. program aiming to channel a huge number of vaccines through pharmacies will start soon

Feb 23, 2021

The federal government will send one million vaccine doses to about 6,500 retail pharmacies on Feb. 11, the beginning of a federal program that will deliver vaccines directly to as many as 40,000 drugstores and grocery stores, Jeffrey D. Zients, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, announced on Tuesday. The program’s launch will mark the start of a new stage in the massive vaccination campaign in the United States,...

WSU helping to meet growing demand for pharmacists and technicians

Feb 19, 2021

Vice Dean of External Relations Linda Garrelts MacLean started seeing a growing demand for pharmacy students in April 2020, just two months after the COVID-19 pandemic officially kicked off in the US. First came the requests by public health officials for students to help at COVID-19 testing sites. Soon, the need for student pharmacists and their skills in being able to communicate with patients and knowledge in administering vaccines...

Kroger Health Partners with Gauss to Provide Smartphone-Enabled COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Home Tests

Feb 17, 2021

CINCINNATI, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kroger Health, the health care division of The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR ), today announced plans to offer the first smartphone-enabled, at-home Gauss COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test Kit to patients nationwide, expanding the company's existing portfolio of in-clinic and employer-focused COVID-19 testing solutions. Kroger Health...

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