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As Health and Life Sciences moves forward with a regular rhythm for our Modern Workplace Fire Away Friday's we want to make sure that content we deliver matches your needs. To that end we would love to have you submit your requests here for content in the collaboration area. Looking for Teams best practices? Let us know. Looking for new ways to aggregate and visual data for your org? Let us know. We look forward to your requests and then we will see you online...live!Development of Health Care Strategy
I have started a new career with Home Health Care organisation that is engaged in: Working for the community of the vulnerable aged and pensioners Enhancing Later life Health of people Fitness for the future In current circumstances of Coronavirus pandemic, my job will be very challenging. It involves developing strategies for avoiding the virus and curing those who are sick due to the virus. The aged are most at risk and need special care and attention, almost like intensive care of patients at home. Dementia care strategy - focus on people living with dementia, people not living with dementia, families and friends of people living with dementia, colleagues and volunteers. Hand Hygiene strategy - ensuring care and safety of every individual from the attacks of micro-organisms, bacteria, chain of infection and the good health of the hands. Diabetes care strategy - focus on people who are suffering from Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes, managing diabetes by medication and blood glucose monitoring, administering and injecting insulin, elderly diabetics, diet and weight management. A check-list of the following procedures may be followed in Hand Hygiene as a matter of great emergency today: - Train and educate everyone in hand washing correctly. Many presentations have been illustrated by government agencies, including posters published by WHO. - Use of soaps for washing and bathing the hands, face, feet and other parts of the skin that are exposed. The infection is spread by physical touch and by coughing and sneezing when droplets touch other people within a very short distance. - Proper hand and face drying. Wet towels and tissues may carry the viral bacteria, they must not be touched and must be put in washing machine and dryer. Hot air drying may be the safe method. - Skin related problems. Care must be taken when treating skin that shows rash, inflammation, burns, sores and pores. Water may attract more bacteria and micro-organisms. An antiseptic soap and cream may be useful. - Frequently unwashed parts of the hands. Water should not be run over or splashed in high volume, as that will leave unwashed and dry parts. Best way to clean is that which shows shinning by rubbing and massaging all over gently. This will ensure that treated water goes beyond the hair and cleans the skin thoroughly. - Home care and hand hygiene. Ensure that the surface of everything is sparkling clean, washed and shinning. Take care of glass, door and window handles, pots and pans and other utensils, wash up all the dishes, cups, saucers, tumblers put in the sink or left on tables and worktops, clean up also the mobile phones, laptops and computer keyboards and screens, chairs, settee and furnishing. - Disposable gloves. Wear them properly and ensure they are fit and new, dispose of them properly and carefully after use so that nobody touches them and they don't touch surface of things. It is better to wash the hands with soap after removing the disposable gloves.
Vocera Teams Integration
https://www.vocera.com is a complete mobile communications device used by many healthcare organizations and professionals around the world. Integrating Vocera and Teams could further enable and enhance care. Enabling everyone to do more, faster and easier. My customer currently uses this in their hospitals.How Emerging Opportunities team at Microsoft uses Azure DevOps for project management
We want to share how we created a project management system with Scrum practices based on Azure DevOps. We chose the Scrum template from Azure DevOps that supports Work Items - Epics, Features, Product Backlog Items (PBIs) and Tasks as shown below. Epic represents the overall Project. Features are used to organize specific objectives within the project. To build the features, we need User Stories that group work into logical collections of activities. Tasks captures the actual work that needs to be done to satisfy the User story. During the planning of Sprint, each PBI in the current Sprint is given an estimated effort. Effort is defined as a relative estimate of the amount of work required to fully implement a PBI. To set the effort, you can use any numeric unit of measurement. e.g., powers of 2 (1, 2, 4, 😎 and the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.). How do we know we are progressing in a Sprint and Sprint-over-Sprint? Sprint Burndown - By reviewing a sprint burndown report, we can monitor how much work remains in a sprint backlog, understand how quickly our team has completed tasks, and predict when our team will achieve the goals of the sprint. We defined it by the number of Tasks under each PBI. To achieve this, the measurement to do a task should be consistent. In our case, Task should be a work that can be completed in a day or less. If a Task, was not marked as Done in 3 days, it was classified as a blocker. This enabled us to easily find any blockers and focus on resolving them to keep the project moving forward. Velocity - We track the velocity to determine how much work we can perform sprint-over-sprint. Velocity provides an indication of how much work a team can complete during a sprint based either on a count of work items completed or the sum of estimates made to Effort (PBIs). By using Azure DevOps for project management, the built-in reporting for burndown charts and Sprint planning allows us to analyze progress, have reasonable expectations from the team, focus on prioritizing and keep everyone fully informed. Resources: Implement Scrum, track work in sprints - Azure Boards | Microsoft DocsMicrosoft Teams COVID-19 Response Bot
Microsoft Teams COVID-19 Response Bot Using an Information BOT to enable companies to build out a knowledge base and FAQ to interact and communicate to their employees. Target Audience: COVID-19 Company Response Teams Every group who is reacting to an unforeseen situation like: Communications, Help Desk, Human Resources, and Operations teams. Technical Requirements: Azure subscription; QnA Maker account; No experience with coding required. The Problem: Many companies have been struggling to provide communications and resources in an automated way. Microsoft Teams COVID-19 Response Bot adds value! In a pandemic situation, many companies that have not completed or started their digital transformation tend to struggle with high volume of inquiries being directed to their front line response teams. Azure Web Bot services can help reduce the overhead of the front-line response teams by inserting an automated layer and interactive for employees to engage your resources. We will show you below how to create a COVID-19 response bot and connect it to Microsoft Teams, a website (Intranet / Internet), and as an email responder in 12 easy steps that does not require any previous coding experience. Microsoft Teams: Employees want an interactive experience to communicate in a chat and ask questions about company resources and frequently asked questions. Intranet / Internet Communication: Employees are expecting crisis communication and interaction on the home page of the intranet to feel connected. Providing a real-time chat bot to allow employees to get company-specific information immediately. Bot used as an Email Responder: Companies can create a mailbox for crisis communication that provides valuable and relevant automated responses. Deploy Microsoft Teams COVID-19 Response Bot: Open Edge and navigate to https://qnamaker.ai on the top right corner click “Sign in” and sign in using your Microsoft Account. Once you have signed into your account, click on “Create a knowledge base” from the top menu. Once you clicked on Create a knowledge base, you will be required to create a QnA service in Microsoft Azure, click on the blue button that says “Create a QnA service". This will redirect you to your Azure portal and directly into Cognitive Services (QnA Maker). Fill the form and click on “Create” at the bottom: Once your deployment has been successfully implemented, go back to QnA Maker portal and click on “Refresh” and select the correct Azure QnA service from the drop downs. It is time to select a name for your Knowledge Base. Now it is time for us to populate the content for our bot, we will choose the URL for the FAQ the CDC has available (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html) and we will enable multi-turn, which will allow to present multiple potential matches for a single question, and for personality we will choose professional. Once you have the form filled, click on “Create your KB” this will take few minutes to parse all the questions on your FAQ URL or files (if you uploaded any). Once you are redirected to your knowledge base, click on “PUBLISH” to continue creating the bot A New page will be displayed, you will need to click on “Publish” at the bottom to be able to use this knowledge base to your bot in Azure. Once this task is completed, it will redirect you to the last page we need in QnAMaker.ai, which has a button to “Create bot”, this will redirect you to your Azure Portal again to create a bot. On the Web App Bot section of Azure, verify all the information has been filled and click “Create”, once the task is completed, your bot is live and ready to be used by deploying it on the channel of your preference (Teams, Email, Facebook, GroupMe, Kik, LINE, Skype, Slack, Telegram, Twilio, Cortana, Web Chat, and Direct Line). Deploying your bot on Microsoft Teams Go to your bot and click on "Channels". Click on the Microsoft Teams icon in the center of the page. Click Save and your bot will be ready to be used on Teams. Deploying your bot on a web site Go to your bot and click on "Channels". By default Web Chat is always enabled, click on "Edit" on the far right side. Copy the HTML code into the page you are going to implement the bot by clicking “Copy” in the “Embed code” section, and your bot will be available in the URL you pasted the code. Deploying your bot on an email: Go to your bot and click on "Channels". Click on "Email". Enter your Office 365 email credentials for the mailbox the bot is going to use and hit "Save", and your bot will be able to respond email messages that arrive to that specific mailbox. Bot Solutions Going Forward: HR Benefits, Help Desk, Office 365 Journey Advisor, Adoption Projects, Company branding materials, On-boarding mentor, and more. Contributors: Michelle Gilbert michellegilbert Daniel Lopez DanLopezPart 11 Compliance guide for Dynamics or Dynamics 365
Hello, i wanted to ask if there any compliance guides from Microsoft or other organizations, for FDA Part 11 compliance specifically for Dynamics or Dynamics 365. I have seen some Part 11 Compliance docs for Office 365, Azure, and SharePoint specifically, but nothing for Dynamics or Dynamics 365. I wasn't sure if something existed or not. thank you, markCan Remote Patient Monitoring address many challenges in healthcare?
People who are old might need medical care and observation more often than younger people. That is to be expected as seniors are more prone to diseases and physical injury. Regular diseases aside, elders are also prone to long-term illnesses like dementia or Parkinson's disease. Moreover, lots of them even find it difficult to drive to a clinic or use smartphone applications to order a cab. It is estimated that the end of this decade will see tens of millions of people reach or surpass eighty years of age. The frailty increases drastically as one crosses eighty and they need constant support and care. Experts have warned that the United States is about to reach a tipping point in the area of eldercare, and the country is grossly unprepared. That is mainly because of the rapidly increasing cost of care, coupled with a dearth of home caregivers. In light of this looming problem, remote patient monitoring technology has been touted as a promising solution to address the problem of senior care. As the name suggests, remote patient monitoring systems enable caregivers and providers to monitor a patient’s health situation outside clinical settings. The idea of a remote patient monitoring software based device is to collect the health information of a patient in real-time and transmit it to a physician. The physician can view the health vitals and know about the patient’s health situation. In other words, the doctor and patient need not even be in the same city. If the doctor sees abnormal health data, he or she can immediately notify the patient about it and have an in-person visit arranged. This is an excellent way for a single physician to observe the health vitals of multiple seniors from a remote location and ensure timely care. Recent innovations in remote healthcare monitoring have given immense hope to many physicians and people alike. Let’s look at some innovative remote health monitoring systems that help with senior care - Fall Detector As mentioned earlier, seniors who are of 80 years and above are frail and are at greater risk of accidents and physical injury. A little slip and fall could have catastrophic results. So, a fall detector installed at home alleviates this risk and allows family members to breathe easy. A fall detector is like a camera but without the usual video feed. It detects movement patterns of people in the room and knows if someone fell. It is powered by an advanced artificial intelligence algorithm and knows the difference between a person who fell, and someone who performs activities like bending over, squatting, or anything else. If it detects a fall, it automatically notifies people from a pre-determined list through push notifications or alerts. Moreover, since it doesn’t have a regular video feed, it ascertains privacy for the person being observed. This type of home health monitoring system also ensures peace of mind to the families of elders who might not live with them. Wearable Diagnostic Band This is a band to be worn on the wrist. It detects vitals like body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and electrocardiogram at regular intervals throughout the day. In case of deviation from established benchmarks of normalcy, the device automatically notifies the families of the user and also a designated caregiver. This type of patient monitoring software is excellent for seniors who can’t afford home care, and whose family doesn’t live with them. This device could also work as a kind of hospital monitoring system and enable physicians to track patient health in real-time.Digital Transformation in Life Science
Digital transformation is a hot topic across all industries but Life Science has a massive barrier for achieving success. The need for enhanced customer experiences, broadened customer reach, expedited clinical trials, quality & secure data management, faster time to market, and regulatory demand are on the rise and digital solutions are able to impact these initiatives. At the end of the day, change management must be brought into the equation early & often. Organizations that consider change management to be communication & training exercises will miss the mark. Change management is so much more than a single project, a moment in time, but a journey that will inspire innovation, embrace new technologies and build an agile and competitive and alluring culture.
