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Grady Health System Using LiveProcess to Manage H1N1 Surge

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 8th, 2009

Facilities like Atlanta, Georgia-based Grady Memorial Hospital are taking extra precautions, including leveraging technology for emergency healthcare management, in anticipation of a H1N1 surge this fall.

Like many hospitals, Grady found the wave of H1N1 cases in the spring manageable. "The number of ER visits we had were minimal - maybe eight a month," said Charlotte S. Clark, CHSP, CHEC-III, emergency management manager. As a regional coordinating hospital (RCH), Grady was also charged with distributing Tamiflu antiviral flu medicine. "As a RCH however, we were heavily impacted by the first wave since the CDC shipped Tamiflu directly to us to roll out to the other...

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