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How Data is Driving Patient-First, Empathetic Approaches to Healthcare
This year, June 9 is host to World Empathy Day; on this day, the promotion of empathetic practices and attitudes is encouraged, and because empathy is a skill that can be taught, days like this that highlight the importance of learning how to be more empathetic hold significant value. In the healthcare industry, empathy is needed now more than ever.
A Catalyst for Collaboration: How the Pandemic is Changing Healthcare
The coronavirus pandemic has presented unprecedented circumstances for all industries. In healthcare, professionals are working to adapt and overcome various challenges as they arrive. While the pandemic has brought fear, panic, isolation, and hardship, it has also begun to serve as a catalyst for much-needed collaboration and innovation within the healthcare industry.
How Consumer Grade Technology Can Play a Part in Fighting the Coronavirus
From the perspectives of medical professionals and scientific researchers alike, there is much that is still unknown about the coronavirus (COVID-19). In order to gain more knowledge, the scientific and medical communities are turning to technology to help them obtain data in mass amounts so that they can better diagnose, treat, and contain the virus.
How Data Can Help Identify Ways to Flatten the Curve of the COVID-19 Outbreak
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to threaten the welfare of individuals, markets, and governmental systems around the world. In conversations relating to this virus, one of the most pressing tactics experts encourage is that of flattening the curve. By taking measures to do so, it is believed that the spread of the virus will be better contained, and this belief is supported by existing data and expert opinions.
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