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By Jeff Lagasse | 12:02 pm | February 26, 2020
Microscopic changes in the transmission rate trigger macroscopic jumps in the expected epidemic size, research found.
By Jeff Lagasse | 12:28 pm | February 25, 2020
China is the world's largest supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and the outbreak could be throwing a wrench into global API distribution.
By HIMSSCast: Technology, policy and COVID-19 | 05:24 pm | February 21, 2020
HIMSS Media editors discuss health tech's role in the world's response to the coronavirus.
By Jeff Lagasse | 02:13 pm | February 21, 2020
Care staff is often required to shift time and resources away from other patients to treat those with a life-threatening need for dialysis treatment.
By Jeff Lagasse | 11:31 am | February 20, 2020
Study shows MFA could realize $450 billion in savings and prevent 68,000 deaths per year, though implementation costs would be high.
By Jeff Lagasse | 03:17 pm | February 18, 2020
The COVID-19 virus may be at least as transmissible as SARS; WHO officials cautioned it's too early to tell if the spread will keep slowing.
By Susan Morse | 02:31 pm | February 18, 2020
World Health Organization says it hopes to have a candidate vaccine in 16 weeks.
By Susan Morse | 05:03 pm | February 17, 2020
In Orlando, health IT professionals will get an update on what FHIR currently can and can't do - and what to expect from it going forward.
By Jeff Lagasse | 01:57 pm | February 14, 2020
For the second year in a row, residents say making sure people with mental health problems can get treatment is their top healthcare priority.
By Jeff Lagasse | 01:29 pm | February 12, 2020
At HIMSS20, one physician association will show how data-driven care management, with prompt patient outreach, helped decrease ED use by 8%.