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How Microsoft can transform healthcare delivery
Microsoft’s latest eBook offers a look at how technology can help organizations meet patients’ changing expectations and provide personalized care.
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It’s been just over one year since the Covid-19 public health crisis took hold in the US and the crisis has transformed how providers deliver and, as importantly, how patients access care. Healthcare organizations demonstrated amazing resilience, agility and innovation to focus attention on how best to engage diverse patient populations, according to their preferences and needs, as well as how best to deliver care.
Healthcare organizations quickly turned to the power of the cloud to expand critical care and improve care continuum, all while minimizing exposure to risk for staff and patients. Connecting with the right patients at the right time is critical and technology is vital to helping care providers respond to the evolving demands while providing ac
The shift to home care: Another new normal resulting from Covid-19
Covid-19 has highlighted the critical importance of increased communication and transparency between acute and post-acute providers, and the immediate need for more diverse acute and post-acute care options.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has magnified critical issues in the United States healthcare system, and has made significant, potentially long-lasting impacts on care transitions, referral patterns and care delivery across the acute and post-acute settings. In what may be our new normal at the post-acute level, many hospitals, patients and families continue to opt for in-home care over institutional care settings such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). This marked shift in care delivery preferences can be explained by several factors, whether it’s a patient or family’s fear surrounding SNF stays during the Covid-19 pandemic, families that worry they will be restricted from visiting a patient in a SNF, o
By WHAV Staff |
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and Gov. Charlie Baker. (Photograph by Matt Stone/Boston Herald/Pool.)
Methuen, Lawrence and Andover are among 125 communities across the state receiving state money to support downtowns after the impact of COVID-19 on businesses.
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and Housing and Community Development Undersecretary Jennifer Maddox said Tuesday communities will partner with consultants to pursue “locally-driven, actionable strategies to support downtown and commercial districts.”
“As we continue to navigate the pandemic and work toward recovery, our administration remains committed to collaborating with the local officials that know their communities best to address their unique challenges,” said Polito.
Mar 11, 2021
There are lots of questions about the process that led to awarding a giant federal government contract to a Wisconsin-based company rather than to a company with ties to the Mahoning Valley.
The U.S. Postal Service vehicle contract worth billions of dollars will be publicly funded, and Americans deserve to hear the answers.
It came to light this week that millions of dollars in Oshkosh Corp. stock was purchased one day before a division of the Wisconsin-based company was awarded the contract to build the U.S. Postal Service’s next-gen delivery vehicles.
The stock’s price rose significantly one day before the contract was announced, raising questions about whether details of the announcement were leaked before the public announcement.