Preparing for a Vaccination Campaign of Unprecedented Scale

With COVID-19 cases on the rise and hospitals again overwhelmed, recent good news about three vaccine candidates provides a welcome light at the end of a long tunnel and is a stunning scientific achievement. “This will go down in history as one of science and medical research’s greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive,” said Scripps…

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5 Myth-Busting New Hospital ADT Notification Requirements

When doctors know their patients have been to the hospital, they can act fast to provide needed support. Widespread use of hospital event notifications is associated with all kinds of health benefits, including a 10 percent decrease in readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries. These event notifications are one of the simplest, easiest (most-bipartisan!), and most impactful changes we can…

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How Are We Doing? Is Healthcare Technology Helping or Hurting us?

What do we want from our healthcare system? What do we need from it? And what is the role of technology in helping us feel better? There are so many ways that healthcare technology has advanced to help people live better lives in the last few decades: pacemakers, CT scans, interventional radiology, insulin pumps, digital records, genome…

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Viewpoint: How Are We Doing?

What do we want from our healthcare system? What do we need from it? And what is the role of technology in helping us feel better? There are so many ways that healthcare technology has advanced to help people live better lives in the last few decades: pacemakers, CT scans, interventional radiology, insulin pumps, digital records, genome…

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