Articles Tagged With: pandemic
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As COVID-19 Pandemic Enters Second Phase, At-Risk Populations Remain Vulnerable
Case managers faced many challenges in helping patients during the COVID-19 crisis, including connecting homeless patients to care and resources.
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Improve Access to Family Planning Services as Pandemic Wears On
Family planning clinics and other reproductive health providers have discovered creative ways to continue to provide contraception services to women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth is one of the most important methods, although each facility has its own way of using remote services.
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What Happens to Human Research in the New Pandemic Era?
The big question in the clinical research world is how things will look when the COVID-19 pandemic has ended. Will everything go back to the way it was? If not, what changes will remain?
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Telehealth Rules Eased, but Oversight Still Needed
The federal government acted quickly to make telehealth services more accessible in the COVID-19 pandemic, but risk managers must fully understand the changes to avoid creating liability risks. Some telehealth changes are aimed at making the service reimbursable, and therefore available to more patients. But there also are compliance issues.
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Scientists Warn Pandemic May Not Decline in Warmer Weather
Seasonal influenza and common human coronaviruses typically fall off in warmer seasons, as heat and humidity diminish transmission sharply. There has been some hope that this will happen with COVID-19, giving the United States a summer respite against a relentlessly accelerating pandemic.
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The Forecast Calls for Pain
There is the proverbial glass half-full or half-empty — and then there is the cold shot of despair that comes with considering how much of the planet COVID-19 has yet to hit.
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The Global COVID-19 Pandemic Was Predicted and Ignored
The human population explosion, international travel and migration, urbanization, and environmental exploitation set the stage for pandemics, and the trend likely will continue and intensify.
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Telehealth Intervention Provides Solutions for Era of Social Distancing
A recent study revealed how healthcare organizations can design a telehealth pilot program for elderly and at-risk populations with long-term health conditions. Researchers found that using the Model for Developing Complex Interventions in Nursing, healthcare providers could design a multifaceted telehealth intervention to minimize reinstitutionalization of people with multiple chronic conditions.
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COVID-19 Devastates At-Risk Populations
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have a devastating effect on people with chronic diseases or who are immunosuppressed, are older, or obese. In other words, the people most at risk of serious illness from the disease are the same people case managers help each day. Case managers should focus more on remote case management, taking the pandemic into account as they contact and monitor patients.
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Crossing the Fine Line Between Fear and Courage
A truism that has been observed in various forms is the only time one can show courage is when one acts in the face of fear. This is what healthcare workers responding to the coronavirus pandemic are essentially doing, one expert says.