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Vaccinated for Measles?
Even Vaccinated People Can Get the Measles Measles are a serious infectious disease that can cause serious complications, such as ear infections, inflammation of the throat and lungs, pneumonia, swelling of the brain known as encephalitis, and pregnancy problems. Once very common, measles are now rare thanks to vaccinations, but people who have been vaccinated […]
Healthcare or IT Business?
Healthcare is Becoming an Information Technology Business Frank Magliochetti declares that; Health information technology now plays an important role in patient care, payment and research, but it wasn’t always this way. Today’s health information technology represents an evolution in record keeping within the healthcare industry. In 1924, the American College of Surgeons adopted the Minimum […]
Top 3 Challenges in Healthcare in 2020
1. Cybersecurity The medical and healthcare sector collects highly sensitive patient information, which puts the industry in the crosshairs of cybersecurity attacks. There were 2,546 healthcare data breaches involving more than 500 records in the United States between 2009 and 2018, resulting in the in the exposure and theft of 189,945,874 healthcare records – this […]
Fentanyl-Related Overdoses Sweeping the Northeast
Fentanyl-related Overdoses Sweeping the Northeast Fentanyl, which killed music legend Prince, killed more people in Virginia in 2015 than any other prescription painkiller. Legally purchased fentanyl rose only 10 percent from 2007 to 2014, yet annual death rates nearly tripled in that time, rising from 48 to 134 deaths each year. Fentanyl was responsible for 221 deaths […]
Managing Lab Protocols During the Pursuit of a Covid-19 Vaccine
Pursuit of Vaccine and Managing Lab Protocols during the Covid19 Pandemic On April 22, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) said, “To be clear, WHO’s advice is to find and test every suspected case, not every person in a population.” While testing every person is not essential to controlling COVID-19, finding and testing […]