Tag Archives: First

‘We are hurting’: First NYPD detective dies from coronavirus, three employees now dead with hundreds sick

A deputy with the New York Police Department has died from the coronavirus as the department struggles with staff shortages and hundreds of infected officers. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced Saturday that Detective Cedric Dixon, who worked for the NYPD for 23 years, has died. The officer, who had underlying health conditions, was hospitalized three… Read More »

House panel to hold hearing on VA delay of first EHR go-live

The chair of the House subcommittee charged with legislative oversight of the VA’s Cerner electronic health record implementation is concerned about the agency’s decision to delay the EHR’s initial go-live. “I’m concerned that as we’ve moved closer to the go-live date, we have been told repeatedly that there were no showstoppers in the implementation, that… Read More »

First Global Launch of RS2’s new Direct Acquiring business in Latin America in partnership with Colombia’s MOViiRED

Launch follows three years of strategic development and is the first of a global roll out to include Europe and North America FRANKFURT/BOGOTA, 07 FEBRUARY 2020 – RS2 Group, the global payments processing and technology provider, has entered into a partnership agreement with MOViiRED Colombia. As part of this partnership, RS2 will launch its new… Read More »

Ironically, our first assigned patient encounter as medical students would be a corpse

“Death comes for all of us. It is our fate as living, breathing, metabolizing organisms. Dealing with the fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”– Paul Kalanithi, MD Recently, first-year students of the medical and physician’s assistant classes completed their seventh and final practical exam in clinical anatomy. Through… Read More »

Wuhan Coronavirus: C.D.C. Identifies First U.S. Case in Washington State

A man in his 30s in Washington State is infected with the Wuhan coronavirus, the first confirmed case in the United States of a mysterious respiratory infection that has killed at least six people and sickened hundreds more in Asia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday. Federal officials also announced expanded… Read More »