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It is a well-documented fact that telehealth use exploded across the country in 2020, spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic. But several hurdles quickly emerged, including the question of how best to ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic hurdles us to the breaking point of our medical system in various hot spots across the country, we are being forced to face our faults and our fears in the raw. As a first ...

UCLA Health is creating telehealth-specific triage protocols to help providers determine when it is appropriate to deliver care to patients via a virtual approach, according to a Dec. 30 NEJM Catalyst ...

At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, I shared my insights about how Emergency Department (ED) design could respond to the needs of the patients, families, and healthcare workers on the frontlines of ...

When people enter a hospital emergency room with symptoms of COVID-19, they are immediately assessed by a physician who decides if they meet the criteria to be tested and if they should be admitted to ...

A Swansea University study has uncovered the intense emotional and operational strain experienced by emergency ambulance ...

A new paper suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols. When COVID-19 ...

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources. However, ...

The recent outbreaks of avian influenza (H5N1) around the world have placed a renewed emphasis on preparing for an influenza pandemic in humans. As we saw with SARS, any catastrophic outbreak of ...

"A lot of people were affected by September 11th -- New York, Pennsylvania," he noted. "This is affecting the entire world. Everyone is getting hit hard." Another difference, Reid noted, is the ...