Tech and Politics Collide: Dogtown Media CEO Discusses Telehealth, Wearables, and Medical Data With Capitol Hill Leaders at AppCon 2021 Health and Pandemic Response Week
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What does the future of America look like with telemedicine, wearables, and health data? At AppCon 2021’s Health and Pandemic Response Week, top mobile innovators and preeminent political leaders met to answer this question by examining how these technological paradigms helped the United States during the COVID-19 crisis. Dogtown Media CEO Marc Fischer attended as a representative of California’s 33rd Congressional District.
The great strides that we have created together by utilizing digital transformation in healthcare should be advanced by our government for the greater good of Americans coast to coast. Marc Fischer
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Arcadia Congratulates Micky Tripathi on New Leadership Role as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with the Department of Health and Human Services
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BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Arcadia, the leading population health management and healthcare intelligence platform company, congratulates Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, on his new leadership role as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Most recently, Tripathi served as Arcadia s Chief Alliance Officer and was responsible for developing strategic partnerships between Arcadia and other innovative companies to further accelerate the use of advanced technology to improve healthcare.
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Lab experiments suggest that available vaccines may be less effective against new SARS-CoV-2 variants and that COVID-19 survivors may be reinfected. (
New York Times)
As of 8:00 a.m. ET Thursday, the unofficial U.S. tally stood at 24,439,427 cases and 406,162 deaths reflecting increases of 184,690 and 4,385, respectively, from the previous day.
The hold on one particular batch of Moderna vaccine a precaution taken on Sunday due to allergic reactions has been lifted in California. (
KCRA3)
CDC s Anne Schuchat will be leading a review of all existing COVID-19 guidance under the new CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH.
Practical Strategies for Healthcare Providers to Limit Claims
Involving Alleged Contraction of COVID-19 on Premises
Healthcare companies providing patient care during the pandemic
must be vigilant, not only to prevent the spread of infection on
their premises, but also to avoid lawsuits by patients, employees,
and others who claim they contracted COVID-19 on the premises. This
article describes best practices that healthcare providers should
consider for limiting such claims.
Claims that May Arise Based on Alleged Infection on
Premises
A plaintiff who claims to contract COVID-19 on a healthcare
provider s premises would likely bring some form of negligence
claim, including general negligence, premises liability, and/or