Accelerate the Data on Viruses & Vaccines: Keri Althoff, Johns Hopkins University

On this week's episode, Executive Director for Healthcare Innovation, Kerry Amato interviews Dr. Keri Althoff, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and featured contributor on CNN and Bloomberg. 
Dr. Althoff and Kerry discuss the impact COVID-19 has had on the healthcare industry and the current measures taken to collect data to fight the variants.  They talk about how the integration of vaccine and testing data needs to be streamlined to foster research advancements and how essential  and fast-acting the use of contact-tracing is to truly end the pandemic and to stop further outbreaks. The development of tech to help support these efforts extends beyond COVID but to future infectious diseases that have yet been revealed.
They close out their conversation by discussing Dr. Althoff's appreciation for AI applications within healthcare such as reducing the burden on provider and healthcare system resources and monitoring the long-term effects on COVID patients.