In part one of the untold story of COVID-19’s impact on healthcare quality, we looked at the negative effect COVID-19 has had on the U.S. healthcare system.

The pre-pandemic world feels like a distant memory when it comes to healthcare.

I look at my 14-year-old boy every day and think how much I love this guy.

On March 11 of last year, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic.

Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium and phosphate.

With the recent good news regarding potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, I thought it would be helpful to blog about the vaccine development process and how that process has evolved during the ongoing pandemic.

To keep up with the sheer quantity of SARS-CoV-2 testing and the lack of reagent during the pandemic, laboratories have begun to use the “pooling method.”

Amid the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, the HDD team created several new value sets collecting the relevant standard codes, to be provided free to anyone who may find them useful in data identification in relation to the crisis.

Like the change of the seasons, new LOINC versions always come around. LOINC 2.68 is out and available.

It has been 20 weeks since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020.