Baptist Health digital overhaul hitting high gear
Baptist Health South Florida’s $100 million digital overhaul continues, now with a new tech leader at the helm whose prior work for a massive media and entertainment conglomerate will inform…
Miami-Dade prods state to add teachers, police to Covid-19 vaccine list
Florida should expand its next round of Covid-19 vaccines to include police, firefighters, teachers, school staff, and other essential frontline workers listed by a CDC immunization advisory committee, Miami-Dade commissioners…
Telemedicine improvements to live after Covid-19 dies
With vaccine distribution underway there may be a light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel, but local hospital leaders say the improvements in teleworking and telemedicine accelerated by the…
Miami-Dade explores self-testing kits for Covid-19
By mid-January, Miami-Dade could gain another useful tool in battling the spread of Covid-19: at-home tests. Commissioners last month directed Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s administration to explore the possibility…
County clears Jackson Health workers for hazard pay
Employees at Jackson Health System who worked near patients confirmed or suspected of having Covid-19 are again cleared to receive hazard pay. Miami-Dade commissioners this month approved twin items directing…
50,000 in Miami-Dade could get first round of Pfizer vaccine
By Jesse Scheckner Fifty thousand Miami-Dade residents could receive the first round of Pfizer’s new Covid-19 vaccine, Jackson Health System CEO Carlos Migoya said Tuesday. Guidance from the state will…
Fewer than 1% download Covid contact tracing app
It’s been more than a month since Miami-Dade unveiled its mobile contact-tracing app. So far, despite promotional efforts by the county and the app’s potential to help stem the spread…
78% in area feel mental health impacts from coronavirus
More than three-quarters of South Florida residents feel that Covid-19 and related concerns such as rising unemployment and social isolation have impacted their mental health, with nearly half resorting to…
Federally funded Covid-19 vaccine tested at University of Miami
Moderna, the biotechnology company behind mRNA-1273, the Covid vaccine currently being tested at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, is one of multiple companies to receive funding from…
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