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This app provides information from the 2015 US National Action Plan for combating antibiotic resistance, including details on antimicrobial stewardship, vaccines, surveillance of bacterial pathogens, developing new therapies, international collaboration, and additional multimedia resources. It also features abstracts of the latest research papers from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The app is compatible with Android devices running version 4.0 and up.
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HATS_Medwiser_A
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The selected disease is AidsHIVUsing the Internet, conduct .docx
The selected disease is Aids/HIV
Using the Internet, conduct an independent research on the selected disease. Based on your research and understanding, create a 3- to 4-page report in a Microsoft Word document, which include a public education and disease control plan for your identified disease. Your paper must address the following:
What percentage of population was affected by the disease?
Have there been instances of any historical outbreaks of the disease? How was the disease handled and controlled in your community?
What were the objectives and goals of your public education plan to control this disease?
What initiatives were taken by the government departments to mitigate the impact of the disease?
What measures would you suggest in the plan to actually reduce health risks?
How would the plan allow the public to recognize pathogens are related to the cause of diseases and other health problems?
How would the plan suggest measures to prevent the outbreak of the chosen infectious disease?
You must explain the feasibility of each specific part of your plan.
Submission Details:
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
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Get better social 2.4
getbetter! is a breakthrough location-based social mobile app for chronic patients and their caregivers which:
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-solves common non-critical problems
-offers support between patients with chronic illnesses
-cuts down expenses on doctors
-provides a network for caregivers to exchange experiences
Get better social 2.4.pdf
The document proposes a location-based social mobile app to help the over 1 billion people globally who live with chronic diseases. By connecting chronic patients locally, the app aims to help them easily establish online communities to share support, advice, and solutions. This could help chronic patients feel less lonely and isolated while cutting expenses associated with doctors. If successful, the app could generate revenue from micro-payments from patients and partnerships with healthcare organizations. The founders have experience developing a large physicians network and believe this app can make life easier for chronic patients while reducing their treatment costs.
Little Healthcare
Top 20 team in the 2019 High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge at the University of Utah. https://lassonde.utah.edu/hsuec
Little Healthcare
Top 20 team in the 2019 High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge at the University of Utah. https://lassonde.utah.edu/hsuec
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Health 20 And Participatory Health
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- Key aspects of Health 2.0 include personalized search/information, online communities for support/knowledge sharing, and new tools that unlock health data and enable transactions.
- Participatory health involves patients partnering with providers to reform healthcare delivery through continuous involvement in care, supported by online/mobile resources.
Healthcare Social Media: The Conversation That Is Defining Your Brand
NM Incite’s Melissa Davies (Strategic Account Director, Healthcare) presented a webinar with the American Marketing Association on Healthcare Social Media.
As part of the presentation, Melissa shared some new benchmarking data related to online conversations within the healthcare space. “We have always looked at total volume of online discussion, and that is still important,” Melissa said. “But we are also looking at new ways to understand engagement with social media and how that differs across therapeutic areas. Our new data plots the volume of online discussion against disease prevalence as one way to measure that engagement.”
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Running Head Hyper mode emergency notification system .docx
Running Head: Hyper mode emergency notification system 1
Johnathan Donnelly
Hyper mode emergency notification system:
10/24/2106
· Week 1: System or Application Overview
· Week 1: Requirements Specification
· Week 2: System or Application Design
· Week 3: Test and Quality Assurance Plan
· Week 4: Development Strategy
· Week 5: Integration and Deployment Plan
Hyper Mode Emergency notification
System application overview
This is a system that is used in business to increase efficiency through tools that ensure communication. The information system is applied to deliver messages to the particular people through their devices successfully around different organizations on a fast moving crisis. In this case, the intended stakeholders are individuals, groups, and society that have running institutions or business out there ("Emergency Notification System Emergency App," 2016). The primary sponsor of the project is a mechatronic engineering professional solutions company that deal with technology and programming.
Requirements specification
The goals and objectives of emergency notification system are;
-The introduction of the new technology to the existing market so as to find other opportunities.
-Reduce the risks of running a business while away.
-Maintain the intact of the owner and the business running. Lessen the cost of regular
-reducing the manual method of notification, therefore, covering overtime expenses.
-maintain security at high degree since it saves time.
- work and develop skills of the individuals who will be involved in the system.
The requirement of hyper mode notification includes high technology automation features, excellent responsive message delivery so as to run convenient sending and receiving alerts. OSHA and NEPA laws should be observed. The system should be able to hold a mass variety of the notifications ("Emergency Notification System Emergency App," 2016).
The functional requirements should be intelligent automation, have advanced parameters, have a detailed audit log, allow mobile messaging, able to maintain two-way communication and be able to track delivery status and also the feedback.
The non-functional are, poor in GIS mapping thus not able to draw the required simple maps. Poor on voice alert and only rely on text speech, poor support of divisions and organizations, unable to help different audiences of language customization.
Assumption of the projects is;
The system notification works through all series of Android kits.
The system is compatible to emails notification and messaging.
The hosting channel will work around 95% correctly. The system can operate at any range of distance, therefore, initiating alerts at any corner.
Reference
Emergency Notification System Emergency App. (2016). Missionmode.com. Retrieved 20 October 2016, from http://www.missionmode.com/solutions/module/emergency-mass-notification-syste ...
Platforms for Chronic Disease Management at Health 2.0
There are approximately 117M Americans living with chronic disease. Chronic medical conditions took 85% of all healthcare spending in 2010, and are responsible for 7 of 10 deaths each year.
During Health 2.0's 10th annual conference, DrBonnie360 brings her unique, digital health and chronic disease insight to lead a panel of innovators leading in chronic disease management.
GetBetter_social_3.7
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The passing of some legendary figures in 2020 such as Jeopardy host, Alex Trebek, and Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, serves as a reminder of how far we have yet to go in the fight against pancreatic cancer. This disease is estimated to be the second-leading cause of cancer deaths by 2030. This quick primer is for anyone unfamiliar with the condition to serve as a starting point for his or her research. Strength and peace!
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Sources:
1. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/ataglance.html)
2. World Health Organization
3. Los Angeles Times
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