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U.S. public health departments could have updated technology for communication/distribution and improved data standards

By Hicbd
Mon May 3 2021 11:56 am

"As hard as the United States works to control coronavirus, it keeps running into problems caused by its fragmented health system, a jumble of old and new technology, and data standards that don’t meet epidemiologists’ needs...Health departments track the virus’s spread with a distinctly American patchwork: a reporting system in which some test results arrive via smooth data feeds but others come by phone, email, physical mail or fax, a technology retained because it complies with digital privacy standards for health information."

URL:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/upshot/coronavirus-response-fax-machines.html
https://healthitsecurity.com/news/90-healthcare-providers-still-rely-on-fax-machines-posing-privacy-risk
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/10/30/16228054/american-medical-system-fax-machines-why

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Healthcare U.S. Healthcare Business / Invention Idea U.S. Public Health Software U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pandemics / Epidemics Government IT / Technology

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