1st shipments of COVID-19 shots to arrive at hospitals as largest vaccination campaign is US history set to begin capitalgazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capitalgazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Epic this past week released statistics showing that health systems using its interoperability platform Care Everywhere had shared more than 221 million patient records in a one-month period this fall.
The jump, said the electronic health records giant, represents a nearly 40% increase from the same period the year before.
Dave Fuhrmann, senior vice president of interoperability at Epic, said the growth reflects the desire for mobility and increasing demand for healthcare services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. With COVID-19, we got to see some of the value of that [interoperability] work at Epic, he said. Particularly as patients sought telehealth treatment, providers having the ability to access records made treatment more seamless and efficient.
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Call it a soft opening. The long-awaited rollout of a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 starts Tuesday morning in New Jersey, as health care workers at University Hospital in Newark roll up their sleeves for the shots.
A shipment of 76,050 doses from Pfizer was on its way to the state Sunday, headed for six hospitals. Their freezers are chilled to South Pole-level temperatures. Their priority staff those considered at the greatest risk of exposure to COVID-19 have been identified. The plans are ready.
“Six weeks from now we will have been able to … get to all of our health care workers with two doses,” as required by the vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna, Gov. Phil Murphy predicted Friday.
Nursing Home Vaccinations May Be Delayed medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.