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NCCN recognizes the rapidly changing medical information relating to COVID-19 in the oncology ecosystem, but understands that a forum for sharing best practices and specific institutional responses may be helpful to others. Therefore, we are expeditiously providing documents and recommendations developed by NCCN Member Institutions or Guideline Panels as resources for oncology care providers.  These resources have not been developed or reviewed by the standard NCCN processes, and are provided for informational purposes only. We will post more resources as they become available.

Featured speakers in the fifth lecture of the Medical Grand Rounds' COVID-19 series included Keith Flaherty, MD, Michael Mansour, MD, PhD, and Kathryn Hibbert, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital; Kathryn Stephenson, MD, MPH, and Barbra Blair, MD, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Richard Kaufman, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Scott Gottlieb, MD, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and current fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

 The current COVID-19 outbreak has led to many questions around how to incorporate palliative care into the evolving clinical environment. This combined Grand Rounds presented on Thursday, April 2, 2020, featured a panel of experts from across Harvard Medical School, with a focus on principles and skills most useful to practitioners in both the inpatient and outpatient settingSpeakers:

April 7, 2020 - Presented by the American Medical Informatics Association

Presenters: Zhu Hong, PhD; Gong Mengchun, MD; Tuan Ngo; Carl Leitner, PhD; Hamish Fraser, MD

As part of AMIA's ongoing COVID-19 Webinar Series - and in collaboration with Digital Square - this webinar will provide an up-to-the-minute presentation of the use of informatics on a global scale to screen for and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The session will include officials in China and Vietnam, and a view from the situation in Singapore, Korea, and Hong Kong. Presenters will engage in frank discussions of successes and innovations as well as the challenges and roadblocks. There will be a particular emphasis on the development, deployment, and evaluation of medical information systems in East Asia, and the lesson learned from China’s initiatives to bring the outbreak under control.