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America's fragmented healthcare system & COVID-19
Code WACK!
English - May 25, 2020 15:31 - 6 minutes - 5.73 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHealth & Fitness News News Commentary medicareforall singlepayerhealthcare Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Confronting COVID - Hotspots, Telemedicine and Medicare for All
How has our fragmented healthcare system affected our ability to perform basic public health functions? What lessons can we learn from other countries with nationally-centralized electronic health records? With host Brenda Gazzar, Dr. Philip Verhoef, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and ICU physician, takes a closer look at Taiwan’s Medicare-for-All system and how it made identifying COVID hotspots faster and easier. How can the U.S. strengthen its response to future pandemics?