Category «Health Care»

Securely Collaborate and Communicate Remotely: A How-To for Lawyers

Via LLRX – Securely Collaborate and Communicate Remotely: A How-To for Lawyers – Attorney and Legal Technology Evangelist Nicole L. Black delves into how collaborating effectively and confidentially has always been an important part of practicing law. The COIV-19 pandemic has significantly increased the focus on identifying and implementing tools and techniques that enable secure …

Subjects: Cybersecurity, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Harvard Researchers Say Some Social Distancing May Be Needed Into 2022

Bloomberg: “People around the world might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022 to stop Covid-19 from surging anew and overwhelming hospital systems, a group of Harvard disease researchers said Tuesday. Lifting social-distancing measures all at once could risk simply delaying the epidemic’s peak and potentially making it more severe, the …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Government Documents, Health Care

How Apple And Google Are Going To Enable Contact Tracing

JOEKENT.NYC: “This post is a technical translation of the contact tracing specification Apple and Google recently released, aimed at folks that are interested in understanding the implications for security, privacy, and usage. If you are not familiar with contact tracing, I suggest you first read this blog post that explains the topic and the various …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Rapid Expert Consultation on the Effectiveness of Fabric Masks for the COVID-19 Pandemic

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Rapid Expert Consultation on the Effectiveness of Fabric Masks for the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 8, 2020). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25776. “In response to a request from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care

SCOTUS to Break Tradition Hold Oral Arguments by Teleconference

“The Court will hear oral arguments by telephone conference on May 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 in a limited number of previously postponed cases.  The following cases will be assigned argument dates after the Clerk’s Office has confirmed the availability of counsel: 18-9526, McGirt v. Oklahoma 19-46, United States Patent and Trademark Office …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads

Free to read / continuously updated – The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and the number of deaths in countries around the world: “The human cost of the coronavirus outbreak has continued to mount, with more than 1.86m cases confirmed globally and more than 110,000 people known to have died from the disease. The …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Behind every data point on a curve or chart is a name and story of the earliest victims

Washington Post – The Pademic’s First Wave – “The Washington Post has been tracking every covid-19 death in the United States, and an in-depth analysis of the first 1,000 who died reveals the breadth of the outbreak’s impact. The virus spreads swiftly and tends to kill in clusters — in families and senior homes, in dense …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

What does ‘recovered from coronavirus’ mean? 4 questions answered about how some survive and what happens next

Via LLRX – What does ‘recovered from coronavirus’ mean? 4 questions answered about how some survive and what happens next – Just as the number of COVID-19 cases grows, so does another number: those who have recovered. In mid-March, the number of patients in the U.S. who had officially recovered from the virus was close …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine