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Tuesday, July 13, 2021, Microsoft will host several first- and second-level Microsoft Teams training sessions for University of Utah community members. The training is being made available in advance of the university s migration from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams this fall.
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The training is free; however, registration will be required. To register for a specific session, please visit this IT Knowledge Base article, where the links will be posted as soon as they are available. Dates and times (MDT) are below.
Note: Microsoft will also hold training sessions for human resources staff, finance staff, directors/managers and project managers. Those employees will receive a separate announcement with training dates and times.
Rick Egan
Don’t look for Utah to impose another mask mandate or other restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 despite a rise in cases spurred by the new delta variant of the virus, Gov. Spencer Cox said, although the state may offer incentives to encourage more vaccinations.
“Absolutely not. We’re pleading for a return to sanity and asking people to get their vaccines,” the governor said Thursday when asked about the possibility of new restrictions during his regular COVID-19 briefing at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City.
“It won’t make a difference. It just won’t. We’re not doing that. Again, we have the answer to all of this and the answer isn’t restrictions. The answer isn’t to destroy people’s jobs. The answer isn’t to force people to wear masks. The answer is to get vaccinated,” Cox said.
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June 30, 2021
Virtual health care is here to stay. Many believe the era of telehealth was launched by the coronavirus pandemic. It wasn t, but the health crisis certainly accelerated it. Prior to the pandemic, two percent of University of Utah Health providers had seen patients virtually now, 90 percent have. From March 2020 to March 2021, our providers held 400,000 virtual telehealth sessions. That amounts to between 6,000 and 8,000 sessions a week.
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Telehealth will continue to evolve. It already involves more than live transmission of a patient s face onto a provider s device while the patient describes his or her state of health and asks questions. As diagnostics continue to improve, patients will be able to do more within their own homes. Wearable medical devices are increasingly integrated with remote care delivery. Remote labs continue to emerge, changing how patients monito
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