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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

Healthcare It News

Improvements in public health case administration, faster prior authorizations for specialty medications and rideshare delivery of lab kits for wellness are just a few interesting goals making vendor news in April.

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South Metropolitan Health Service digitises its pre-surgery program

Healthcare It News

WHY IT MATTERS SMHS, which provides hospital and community-based public health care services in southern metropolitan Perth, started the LifeFit SurgFit in 2020-2021 as a "holistic approach" to preparing patients for surgery.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: About This Toolkit and Our Framework

NASHP

Although efforts to modernize public health systems predate the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned from successful community and cross-sector partnerships in pandemic response (see Lessons Learned on Public Health-Health System Collaboration during the COVID-19 Pandemic ) underscore the need to further integrate these systems toward common goals.

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How IVAs is Helping Care Providers and Patients Deal with Delta Variant

HIT Consultant

While IVAs can be customized, many come pre-configured with tasks that easily integrate with back-end systems and patient databases, which makes it easy to quickly launch and update them as needed. This can be done for individual outreach or to share an alert with thousands of patients.

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Improving the pace of vaccine distribution through technology

Cloud Blogs

As part of the overall service, System C, hosted and managed the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) on Azure, also integrating with Primary Care and National Health Systems (NHS) nationally, using Power BI for reporting. is built via an Azure web form and hosted on Azure.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: Key Commitments, Priorities, and Strategies to Advance Collaboration between Public Health and Health Systems

NASHP

Funding for state and local health departments decreased 17 percent between 2009 and 2019, while experts estimate that an additional $4.5 billion per year is necessary to ensure access to basic public health services.[1] billion per year is necessary to ensure access to basic public health services.”

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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

Bill Of Health

Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) incorporated a fair pricing condition as part of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) between federal laboratories and private manufacturers. In 1989, the U.S.