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Victoria sends 1700 people virus text alerts

Victorian health authorities have sent out 1700 text messages to people who arrived in the state from Perth on Sunday. It comes after a security guard working in Western Australia’s hotel quarantine program tested positive for coronavirus, triggering a five-day lockdown across the Perth, Peel and South-West regions. In a statement the Department of Health… Read More »

EMR alerts aid compliance with state law limiting opioid prescribing

Penn Medicine outpatient practices in New Jersey successfully implemented electronic medical record best practice alerts to ensure clinicians complied with a state law limiting opioid prescriptions. Thanks to a “nudge” introduced into the EMR, clinicians at New Jersey ambulatory practices were notified if that limit had been reached. Researchers found that the total amount of… Read More »