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How Presbyterian is using digital health tools to address pandemic challenges

How Presbyterian is using digital health tools to address pandemic challenges Timing is everything. In the case of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, its adoption of the Bright.MD platform in 2017 to facilitate telehealth appointments was fortuitous. As hospitals struggled last year to manage COVID-19 and scale telemedicine, Presbyterian Healthcare Services leveraged Bright.MD’s platform to not only conduct virtual visits but also automate charting, order entry, coding, and billing, so that its providers can deliver quality care for hundreds of low-acuity conditions in two minutes or less. To date, Presbyterian has screened more than 20,000 patients for COVID-19 using Online Visits while significantly reducing the potential spread of the virus. Patients who were ill with conditions unrelated to COVID-19 also had a convenient way to get care from home.

All of the Creative Ways Small Businesses Have Stayed Open the Past Year

One-Third of Small Businesses Don't Expect to Survive

Remote Learning Is Here to Stay, Raising Concerns About Teacher Training and Data Privacy

More Remote Possibilities It’s clear that emergency remote instruction over the past year hasn’t been a pleasant experience for most school districts. But continuing it after the emergency ends may have appeal. An appropriately titled RAND Corporation research report, “Remote Learning Is Here to Stay,” finds that one in five U.S. school districts plans to offer fully online learning even after the pandemic ends. The survey, conducted of RAND’s nationally representative American School District Panel from September through November 2020, included more than 375 K-12 public school districts and charter management organizations. RAND researchers found that remote learning, in some form, is likely to outlast the COVID-19 closures. Virtual school or a fully online option is in the to-be-continued cards—either planned or being considered—by 20 percent of districts and charter orgs, and a blended or hybrid model by 10 percent. Seven percent indicated a more generic “remote learning in some form” based on the open-ended responses. Respondents’ answers could be applied to more than one option.

Opinion | Endangering Others by Flouting Covid Guidelines

Endangering Others by Flouting Covid Guidelines “We shouldn’t have to shame ‘those who flout pandemic safety guidance’; we should be able to dial 911,” a reader writes. Dec. 16, 2020 To the Editor: Spencer Bokat-Lindell focuses on the emotional aspects of our pandemic experience: psychological fatigue, anger, shame. Emotions are complicated. Viruses, on the other hand, are simple. They invade and recruit, wherever and whenever the opportunity arises. And opportunity is driven by human behavior. Everywhere that large groups of humans have gotten together in small, enclosed spaces without protective equipment, they have created opportunity, and sure enough, the virus has done what it does. Journalists have done us a tremendous disservice by often failing to clearly distinguish human behavior from virus behavior and who is responsible for what.