Data is Key to COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Syndromic Surveillance
As the country gradually reopens and people begin returning to work and school, health officials and local leaders must remain...
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History, never repeats. Or does it?
History never repeats I tell myself before I go to sleep Don’t say the words you might regret I lost...
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Why Interoperability Is Crucial to Medtech’s Survival
The consequences could be dire. In Germany, like much of the world, health systems perform rigorous cost-benefit analyses before signing...
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Accelerating Access: Expanding Mental Healthcare Virtually
When my friend Jean got the call from her son’s high school that he hadn’t shown up for class, and...
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Tags: AI, covid, COVID-19, digital medicine, mental health, telehealth, virtual care, virtual health
Is COVID-19 the Burning Platform We Need to Move to Value-Based Care?
One of the greatest paradoxes for health systems today is that they need to accommodate the patient demand created by...
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Tags: ACO, COVID-19, healthy data, medicaid, Medicare, Payers, providers, telehealth, value-based care, virtual care
Standardizing a Health System that No Longer Exists
When I was 8 years old, I recall riding through rural Kentucky with my great-uncle Dr. C. C. Howard. He...
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