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HIMSS20: Improving smart contract security in the healthcare supply chain

Healthcare organizations should enter into smart contracts with their eyes open and take steps to ensure the mitigation of risk.

Strategies allow health leaders to plan for critical care surge during coronavirus pandemic

Creative thinking will be needed to carve out the necessary critical care capacity to address the surge in COVID-19 patients.

COVID-19: Shortages of protective equipment, insufficient tests plague hospitals, OIG finds

Various hospital challenges are feeding off each other as three out of four hospitals treat patients with coronavirus symptoms, OIG report says.

Coronavirus is impacting the financial health of nonprofit hospitals, but CFOs have some options

Revenue is tanking while expenses are going up as organizations prepare for big surges in coronavirus cases.

One-year projected costs of coronavirus to the commercial market could hit $251 billion

Consumers will feel these increased costs through higher out-of-pocket expenses and premiums, especially if the federal response is lacking.

Lessons from the Spanish flu: Early restrictions lowered disease, mortality rates

Cities that adopted early, broad isolation and prevention measures had lower disease and mortality rates during the Spanish flu era.

COVID-19: Heart and kidney patients should keep taking their medicines

Foregoing these medications would increase health risks for millions of patients with hypertension and congestive heart failure.

Trump accuses hospitals of hoarding ventilators and other supplies during coronavirus pandemic

With COVID-19 spreading, Trump has suggested that the increase in demand for supplies may not be due solely to the virus.

Mayo Clinic is studying antimalarial drug for COVID-19 treatment

Some of the medications being used to treat COVID-19 are known to increase cardiac risk in some people.

Some COVID-19 patients still have coronavirus after symptoms disappear, possibly endangering health workers

The message is clear: Nurses and physicians should treat asymptomatic patients as carefully as symptomatic patients.