A Harvard immunologist said current vaccines appear to be effective enough to end the pandemic, despite growing concerns that more infectious COVID-19 variants would severely blunt the effectiveness of the preventative treatments and set the nation back in its fight against the disease. Galit Alter, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Ragon… Read More »
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that policy experts underestimated the impact of widespread electronic health record use on clinician burnout at the time of the HITECH Act’s passage in 2009. The retrospective look examined the discussions at the AMIA’s 2009 Annual Health Policy Meeting,… Read More »
When Novo Nordisk was developing its digital concierge chatbot Sophia, it noticed something: late-night spikes in online visits to Novo’s Cornerstones for Care website. The team realized that behind those late-night 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. spikes were people who finally had time to do self care. Maybe they could finally focus after putting the kids to bed, or… Read More »