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A Tribute to a Cool Uncle | A Sepsis Awareness Month Story
By: Tommy Hodge September 13th 2021 When you have a small family, losing a piece can leave a very noticeable void in your life. That…
Keep on Playing | A Sepsis Awareness Month Story
By: Natalie Cheng September 8th 2021 September is Sepsis Awareness Month. Sepsis claims 270,000 lives a year in the United States. For every hour that…
What is the Swiss Cheese Model and what does it have to do with sepsis management?
By: Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Natalie Cheng September 1st 2021 Have you heard of the Swiss Cheese model? Just in case you were wondering, it doesn’t…
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Dallas County Achieves Milestone: 500K COVID-19 Shots Administered
By: James Hearn, Jim Cunningham August 30th 2021 Dallas County’s Fair Park Vaccination site recently achieved a major milestone by administering over 500,000 shots. With…
Is Sagitta Right For Your Hospital? | Sepsis Management
By: Natalie Cheng August 23rd 2021 To start, Sagitta is our sepsis workflow accelerator. The tool addresses a major medical emergency: sepsis. According to the…
Identifying Sepsis: The Human Body’s Abnormal and Deadly Response to an Infection
By: Natalie Cheng August 19th 2021 Many people may be talking about COVID right now, but there’s another problem that needs to be addressed alongside…
Do you feel more efficient in your healthcare organization?
By: Natalie Cheng August 2nd 2021 Technology has changed the lives of many and continues to impact every industry. Think about it. Without our current…
Safety First: Making Healthcare Data Security A Priority
By: Natalie Cheng July 26th 2021 Security – it’s a basic human need. In order to move up through Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to achieve…
Turning Healthcare Data into Insight with AI and Machine Learning
By: Natalie Cheng July 19th 2021 “The goal is to turn data into information and information into insight.” – Carly Fiorina, Former Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett Packard…
HL7, FHIR, and eCQM Explained
By: Natalie Cheng July 12th 2021 HL7, FHIR, and eCQM are acronyms used frequently when speaking about interoperability and quality in healthcare. Those that have…
Is it better data or bigger data? – Improving Patient Care with Better Data
By: Natalie Cheng July 6th 2021 Data is king and an integral part of the next generation of technology. With data, organizations are more informed…
To Transform or Not To Transform: The Benefits of Digital Transformation in Healthcare
By: Natalie Cheng June 28th 2021 To transform or not to transform? Under normal circumstances, digital transformation and technological changes would take years. However, due…
Breaking News! Epic sepsis model poorly predicts sepsis, but there’s a solution.
By: Natalie Cheng June 24th 2021 “…Epic sepsis model poorly predicts sepsis.” – JAMA June 21, 2021 This study reports that “the Epic Sepsis Model…
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Luminare Releases New Version of Sepsis Alert and Workflow Management Tool at HIMSS
By: Natalie Cheng Jun 22nd 2021 Sagitta at HIMSS 2021 Press Release Luminare Releases New Version of Sepsis Alert and Workflow Management Tool at HIMSS HOUSTON,…
Healthcare Interoperability: The Phrase of the New Roaring ‘20s
By: Natalie Cheng June 21st 2021 It’s the roaring 20’s….2020s that is, and the topic that many in healthcare and technology are discussing is interoperability.…
The Impact of the 21st Century Cures Act on Innovation
By: Natalie Cheng June 14th 2021 What is the 21st Century Cures Act and why is it so important to healthcare innovation? To start, the…
Why Should Organizations Pursue Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC) Certification?
By: Natalie Cheng June 7th 2021 Hospitals that are looking to build up their stroke centers should look into getting accreditation. The Joint Commission offers…
The Problems with Information Blocking in Healthcare
By: Natalie Cheng June 2nd 2021 What is information blocking in healthcare and why is it hurting health systems? According to HealthIT.gov, information blocking is…
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Case Study: MedStar Brings COVID-19 Vaccines to Underserved with Innoculate by Luminare
By: Natalie Cheng May 25th 2021 When the pandemic hit, MedStar Mobile Healthcare was affected in a couple different areas. As an administrative governmental agency that provides emergency and non-emergency…
Delivering High Quality Patient Care Through Standardization and Healthcare Integration
By: Natalie Cheng May 24th 2021 Delivering high quality healthcare has been magnified under the microscope of the pandemic. Maintaining a high quality of patient…
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How to Bridge the Health Equity Gap with Interoperability, Governance, and Technology
By: Natalie Cheng May 17th 2021 Uncovered. Brought to light. The pandemic has done just this to a variety of issues ranging from racial injustice…
Improving Patient Care With BPCI Advanced
By: Natalie Cheng May 11th 2021 Today, delivering high quality patient care is tougher than ever with a pandemic still going on. Hospitals and healthcare…
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Health Data Privacy in the Age of the COVID Pandemic
By: Natalie Cheng Apr 12th 2021 As an increasing number of people receive vaccines and health care is delivered virtually through telemedicine, one topic that…
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3 Challenges Healthcare Organizations Are Facing with the COVID Vaccine Rollout
By: Natalie Cheng Apr 6th 2021 As if the healthcare industry hasn’t already been dealt enough stress, they are now facing several challenges in administering…
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Population Health Management – Dealing with Vaccine Waitlists and Ensuring that Everyone Gets Vaccinated
By: Natalie Cheng Mar 25th 2021 Signing up for a vaccine should be a simple process. However, people are struggling to find and sign up for…
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Innoculate in Action – A Look at the Vaccine Management Solution in Dallas County
By: Dr. Sarma Velamuri and Jim Cunningham Mar 18th 2021 Since the announcement of the COVID vaccines, our team has been working diligently with many city and…
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COVID Vaccines: What about the underserved communities?
By: Natalie Cheng Mar 4th 2021 Where can I get a COVID vaccine? With the still relative scarcity of the vaccine, the hunt for COVID vaccines…
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Digitize the COVID-19 Vaccine Management Process
By: Natalie Cheng Feb 15th 2021 The problems that cities and counties have faced in trying to manage the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has frustrated many people…
Solving the Fundamental Information Problem in Healthcare with Leonardo
By: Mihir Pethe Feb 3rd 2021 Luminare was initially founded with an eye on sepsis and preventing it from ever happening on a hospital floor. We…
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Five Problems You’ll Face With COVID-19 Vaccine Registrations and a Solution [Part 2]
By: Natalie Cheng Jan 29th 2021 In Part 1, we talked about two problems that you’ll face with the COVID-19 vaccine registration process. Here are three…
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Five Problems You’ll Face With COVID-19 Vaccine Registrations and a Solution [Part 1]
By: Natalie Cheng Jan 28th 2021 With the rollout of the COVID vaccine, the process has become a bit of a headache for many. Issues have come up throughout…
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4 Tips on How to Manage and Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccines
By: Natalie Cheng Jan 20th 2021 Are you a city health official or someone in charge of managing the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine? Maybe…
Luminare Partners with the City of Corpus Christi to Deploy Innoculate — A COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solution
Corpus Christi Innoculate Press Release By: Natalie Cheng Jan 8th 2021 Luminare Partners with the City of Corpus Christi to Deploy Innoculate – A COVID-19 Vaccine…
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Return to Play – Keep Your Athletes Safe and Your Organization Protected from COVID
By: Natalie Cheng, Mike Gilbert Dec 15th 2020 With news of a vaccine that purports 82% efficacy after the first dose, some communities are choosing to resume sports…
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The Unique Challenges of a COVID-19 Vaccine: Solved!
By: Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Mihir Pethe Dec 9th 2020 The COVID-19 vaccines are arriving soon, and while their arrival is welcome, they also present particular…
Case Study: The Dangers of Assumption in Sepsis Cases
By: Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Mihir Pethe Dec 8th 2020 Consider the case of an 82-year-old woman with a history of heart block who had a…
Understanding the Urgency of Pediatric Sepsis
By: Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Mihir Pethe Dec 7th 2020 Although the World Health Organization (WHO) does not track sepsis specifically, sepsis encompasses the top four…
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Corpus Christi Press Release
By: Natalie Cheng Nov 2nd 2020 Luminare Deploys Quickscreen For Public Health – A Fully Automated End-To-End COVID-19 Management Solution To Corpus Christi, Eliminating Data Integrity…
Case Study: Robinson Engineering Prevents COVID-19 Spread with Quickscreen by Luminare
By: Natalie Cheng Oct 28th 2020 Keeping a business running smoothly is a tough job. When the pandemic hit, Robinson Engineering faced the challenge of figuring…
Case Study: Erath Excels Academy Keeps District Safe with Quickscreen by Luminare
By: Natalie Cheng Oct 27th 2020 Like many school districts, the staff at Erath Excels Academy was inundated with things to do after the pandemic hit.…
Case Study: Martin Preferred Foods Keeps Plant Safe with Quickscreen by Luminare and Hamilton Health Box
By: Natalie Cheng Oct 26th 2020 The pandemic has greatly affected food production plants and has caused numerous shutdowns. Several food and beverage manufacturers were forced…
Case Study: How River Road ISD Reduced the COVID-19 Workload on Their Nursing Staff
By: Natalie Cheng Oct 23rd 2020 Managing school staff and running a school is already challenging enough – now add in a pandemic! Like most schools…
Case Study: Lone Star Citrus prevents COVID-19 spread with Quickscreen by Luminare
By: Natalie Cheng Oct 21st 2020 When the pandemic hit, Lone Star Citrus, a vertically integrated grower, packer, marketer, and shipper of Texas red grapefruit and…
Case Study: First Baptist Academy School Prevents COVID-19 Spread with Quickscreen by Luminare
By: Natalie Cheng Oct 20th 2020 When the pandemic hit, school administrators and nurses had to figure out how to continue teaching in a safe way…
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Why You Need To Consider Sepsis When Fighting COVID-19
By: Dr. Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Mihir Pethe Oct 19th 2020 The CDC estimates sepsis kills 270,000 Americans each year, a figure that would put it as…
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3 Tips on How To Reopen Businesses Safely During a Pandemic
By: Natalie Cheng Sep 21st 2020 Around the world, businesses are taking different approaches to the workplace during the pandemic. Some are reopening offices while others…
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Why You’ll Still Need Syndromic Surveillance Once The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Available
By: Dr. Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Natalie Cheng Sep 14th 2020 With the glimmering news of having a COVID-19 vaccine soon, people are starting to feel more…
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Have you considered these 6 things in your COVID-19 screening tool?
By: J. Alex Fernandez, Natalie Cheng Sep 9th 2020 Were you prepared for the pandemic? Most companies weren’t. Now that we’ve all come to this predicament,…
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How do I know if I have the flu or COVID-19?
By: Dr. Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Natalie Cheng Sep 1st 2020 As flu season approaches, our community is about to face additional hurdles and challenges. During a…
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Why Temperature Checks Alone Don’t Work for Assessing COVID-19
By: Dr. Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Natalie Cheng, D. Maneesh Kumar, D.O., Ph.D., FAAP Aug 18th 2020 When you’re feeling sick and feel like you may have…
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4 Things To Consider When Safely Reopening Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Natalie Cheng Aug 13th 2020 As we approach the fall semester, talk about reopening schools has become heated. How do you safely reopen schools without…
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Liability and Reopening A Business or School During COVID-19
By: Dr. Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Natalie Cheng Jul 29th 2020 2020 is a year that will forever be remembered as the year the COVID-19 pandemic swept…
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Why Syndromic Surveillance Is More Accurate Than Other COVID-19 Tests
By: Dr. Sarma Velamuri, M.D., Natalie Cheng, D. Maneesh Kumar, D.O., Ph.D., FAAP Jul 16th 2020 Imagine this: Bob wakes up one morning and starts to…
NACCHO Press Release
Jul 9th 2020 LUMINARE PARTNERS WITH THE CDC TO CO-PRESENT AT NACCHO CONFERENCE AND DEBUTS QUICKSCREEN CORONAVIRUS SELF-CERTIFICATION SCREENING SOLUTION Houston, TX // July 09, 2020…
HCPH Press Release
Mar 27th 2020 Harris County Public Health and Local HealthTech Company Luminare Partner to Launch COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool to Help Prioritize Testing for High-Risk Individuals…
