Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offered strategies for optimizing facemask supplies in health care settings where stocks are limited.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) created a COVID-19 training website providing COVID-19 specific training for clinical staff.
To address mounting cases of COVID-19, the Trump administration is considering testing groups of people together, a strategy that would allow health officials to test more people with fewer resources.
Health departments across the United States are struggling to conduct effective contact tracing amid a steep rise in COVID-19 cases. Multiple factors have contributed to the inability of health departments to keep up, among them an inadequate number of trained contact tracers and suspicion and…
In a letter to Congress, the AONL joined 340 stakeholders urging the nation’s leaders to make the telehealth flexibilities authorized during the COVID-19 pandemic permanent.
As telehealth adoption takes off in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research is lacking into telehealth’s ability to improve access, lower costs and effect quality measures such as readmission rates and emergency department use.
In the face of the social and economic threats posed by COVID-19, conventional approaches to innovation are being complemented by a fast approach, which repurposes readily available ideas and technology.