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Mission Children’s Hospital Partnership with Mountain Child Advocacy Center Enhances Care for Babies and Children Who Are Victims of Neglect and Abuse

By Carolyn Comeau The safety and quality of life of Buncombe County’s babies and children are dependent on the adults around them. But sadly, over 4,000 children in Buncombe County alone experience neglect and physical or sexual abuse annually. – 1 in 5 children will experience abuse or neglect.– 50 percent of abuse victims are… Read More »

FDA launches years-in-the-making digital health center

Dive Brief: FDA on Tuesday announced the creation of a digital health center within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health where it will coordinate policy and regulatory approaches tailored for the technologies. Bakul Patel, who has led the agency’s digital health regulatory and scientific efforts for the past decade, was named the center’s first director.… Read More »

New contact center model helped Dana-Farber improve the patient experience

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, recently underwent a change to its contact center to improve how it connects with patients. “One of our goals was to figure out a way to improve the patient experience so that we could really contain and capture all of these different points of contact… Read More »