Those bipolar ionizers used in classrooms and other environments to fight COVID-19 might not do as much as we thought they did. For those unfamiliar, these systems use ions which are supposed to create “coagulation,” or particles of opposite charges coming together in a clump which then capture things we don’t want to enter the […]
AI and healthcare professionals are warning of concerns over a machine learning algorithm made for diagnosing COVID-19. The idea behind these technologies was to help health professionals tell the difference between coronavirus and other similarly-presenting ailments like pneumonia. But concerned professionals say changes need to be made before the COVID diagnosis machine learning is used […]
We’re still in the midst of a global pandemic with many variations in rules, guidelines and procedures based on which state, county and community in which we work. While many businesses remain remote working, many others have begun to open back up. So how do you navigate around the locational challenges associated with today’s disparate […]
The first coronavirus vaccine shipments are scheduled this week, but with the shipments comes a whole host of logistics, security, and privacy issues, as well as a hesitancy by some Americans to get vaccinated. Here’s a brief overview of the various issues: Logistics & Hospital Security Really cold freezers are needed by the hospitals and […]
Universities and colleges all over the United States are facing challenges brought on by the pandemic, but some have seen success in preventing coronavirus’ spread. While media has mostly covered colleges and universities with significant outbreaks, an analysis by National Geographic found 1,215 U.S. colleges have fewer than 100 reported cases as of Oct. 22. One […]
A survey of admissions offers at colleges across the nation found that a majority rated their industry’s overall COVID-19 reopening plans rather poorly. According to the Kaplan survey, which asked admissions officers at over 300 institutions of higher education to evaluate their industry’s reopening performance as a whole, 4% gave it an A, 36% gave it […]
Our sister site Campus Safety cites a recent report which found that many Texas schools are not following state coronavirus safety guidelines. The Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA) distributed a survey and found more than 650 of its members from 135 districts reported issues in 12 categories, including inadequate ventilation, lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and cleaning […]
IDIS will soon launch new back-to-workplace tech solutions. The company says the tech will transform control room and security operations with greater situational awareness, faster investigations and an enhanced user experience, as well as support a safe return-to-workplace (RTW) set of strategies that, when combined, continue to deliver on the company’s promise of a low […]
Companies and their employees are facing a Hamlet-esque dilemma right now: to go or not to go — to the office — that is the question. While the quantity of people who are either-or varies by survey or poll, most studies show that a majority of workers want a combination of remote and on-premises. For […]
Many businesses have used on-premise UC systems for their relatively low cost and ease of control. But after a global pandemic, cloud strategies are changing, and organizations who hadn’t yet embraced cloud communications started floundering. At Enterprise Connect 2020, Melissa Swartz, Founder of Swartz Consulting, provided a cloud strategy framework to provide an answer to the […]
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