This Week Health: Newsroom
951 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings“This Week Health: NewsRoom” showcases our commitment to transforming healthcare one connection at a time, providing a dedicated space for timely discussions on industry news. Featuring programs like Today in Health IT, Newsday, UnHack (the News), and This Week Health: Live; this channel caters to healthcare professionals who face the constant challenge of staying informed despite their demanding roles. Guided by the seasoned insights of CEO and Host Bill Russell, and co-hosts Drex DeFord and Sarah Richardson—all of whom have firsthand experience in the trenches of health IT leadership—this channel delivers concise updates and expert analysis to keep you informed in the rapidly evolving world of health technology. Subscribe today for a reliable source of current information, accessible wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Exchange Breach - How the CIO role in Security is Changing
March 09, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 3.79 MBSecurity keeps coming up in my feed. Has this changed the role of the CIO in Healthcare? FTA Microsoft Corp. is urging customers to download software patches after state-sponsored hackers based in China broke into some customers’ copies of its software for email, contacts and calendar using multiple previously undiscovered flaws. The attackers used the vulnerabilities to hack into Microsoft Exchange Server, allowing them to break into email accounts and install malware to “facilitate long-...
Watson for Sale, What We've Learned from Our Time Together
March 08, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.03 MBWatson is for sale, what happened? Could it have been avoided? Today an object lesson on how not to enter healthcare. FTA The Wall Street Journal says Big Blue is pondering ways it might off-load the healthcare AI subsidiary, and IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has already signaled a ''maniacal focus" on hybrid cloud development. The division has seen some major milestones in the decade since Watson first wowed the world with its much-hyped Jeopardy! win in 2011 and the announcement soon after that...
What Happens to Your Medical Record After You Die?
March 05, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.31 MBWhat happens to your Medical Record after you die? Do you know? What medical breadcrumbs are you dropping every day? Do you know? Do the laws of the US make it any clearer? UK, India, Hungary? Do you know? Will your heirs have control of your medical information post your life essence? Do you care? Do you know? Dr. Bertelon Mesko wrote a wonderful piece on the topic. It is really interesting and worth a look.
Kaufmann Hall Report Indicates Big Losses for Healthcare
March 04, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.34 MBAHA commissioned the AHA to do a report on the future revenue/losses of healthcare and they are projecting $50B - $120B in losses in 2021. Big gap right. Well, the gap is due to assumptions, Vaccine distribution and return to pre-COVD habits. What would your assumptions be? FTA Hospitals could lose between $53 billion and $122 billion due to the lingering effects of COVID-19, depending on the speed of vaccine distribution and complete recovery of patient volumes, according to a new repo...
DC is Awash in Telehealth Bills, Do They Work for You?
March 03, 2021 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7.19 MBTelehealth Bills abound in Washington. What do you want in a telehealth bill? FTA The Advancing Connectivity During the Coronavirus to Ensure Support for Seniors (ACCESS) Act targets telehealth expansion in nursing facilities, which have been hard hit by COVID-19. The bill would set aside $50 million for the Health and Human Services Department’s Telehealth Resource Center to expand Medicare and Medicaid coverage of telehealth services in nursing facilities. It would also create a grant pr...
CVS Health Release Medical Alert System for Home, Will it Take?
March 02, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes - 3.9 MBCVS Health has released a Medical Alert System, Will it work? Will it grab some market? I think so and I share why on Today's podcast. FTA CVS Health, today announced the release of Symphony medical alert system to help caregivers monitor the safety and well-being of loved ones, even from afar. This collection of in-home and wearable devices offers a new at-home experience by connecting a suite of sensors that can monitor for falls, motion, and room temperature while also providing a 24/7 ...
MDLive to be acquired by Cigna's Evernorth
March 01, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 6.17 MBSometime when you look at the revenue and business model the exit is obvious. The only question that remains is who. - 93% of MDLive's revenue came from payors and direct to employer agreements - 3% from Health Systems - 4% from Direct to consumer FTA MDLive is among the largest telehealth vendors in the U.S., and delivers services including urgent care, dermatology, therapy and psychiatry via its network of certified clinicians. Over the years, it's marketed its 24/7 virtual care services...
The Future of Remote Work, Microsoft Viva?
February 26, 2021 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.44 MBRemote work was thrust upon us. We adapted. 1 year later, do we have the tools we need to make this work long term? Microsoft thinks a new set of tools are needed and they rolled out Viva as part of their teams platform. FTA Microsoft Viva isn’t an app or even a service but more of a platform for improving remote work and helping businesses adjust to it. While businesses collectively spend billions of dollars each year on employee wellbeing, Microsoft thinks Viva will help in this new digit...
Hacking Healthcare Through APIs
February 25, 2021 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.49 MBWe're moving fast. Digital Front Doors, Remote Patient Monitoring, and Telehealth delivered anywhere on any device. I can hear my Mom now. Did you lock the back door? Whenever we move fast you have to take an extra measure of caution. Where are we moving fast at the expense of security. FTA All of the apps were found to be vulnerable to API attacks, and some allowed access to electronic health records (EHRs). The 30 apps collectively expose 23 million mobile health users to attacks, Kni...
Walmart Slowing Down its Clinic Plans? Say it ain't so
February 24, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 6.08 MBIf we change CEOs at your organization and we ask 8 employees what they think it means to your department a few months in, what do you think we might here? According to these 8, here's Walmart's Clinic Plan FTA In an industry notorious for opaque prices, the health centers sought to disrupt the space with transparent cash prices for a variety of services, including primary care, dental exams, vision tests, counseling, X-rays, and diagnostics. Seeing a primary-care doctor costs $40, even f...
FDA Names First Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity - Finally
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 4.87 MBWindows XP went end of life on April 8th, 2014, but it's probably running on more than one BioMed device at your health system. Can you think of an area more needing for Cybersecurity focus than BioMed devices? Well, the FDA has finally moved to address this gap. FTA: The Food and Drug Administration recently named Kevin Fu as the agency’s first Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity in its Center for Devices and Radiological Health. The newly created position is designed as a 12-...
Imagine a World Where the Patient Owns Their Data
February 22, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 4.93 MBIf patients ever figured out how to organize around the privacy of their data how would that impact how healthcare data is handled. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, known as the founder of the world wide web has an idea for health data, pods. FTA: "We are on a mission to change the way the web works, to make it a better place for all of us," said Berners-Lee in a November YouTube video with Technology Intelligence Live. "It's a mid-course correction to restore the values of individual and group e...
The Role of the Healthcare CIO has Changed Forever
February 19, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 4.84 MBA strange thing was revealed over the last 90 days of interviews at This Week in Health IT. The CIOs role and responsibility has expanded and changed. - Three CIOs have taken on functions that used to be in the COO or CAO function. - Four CIOs have taken on Digital and Innovation titles. - One CIO has taken on a service line with revenue and P&L responsibility. Why is this happening and why does it make sense is the topic for Today's - Today in Health IT podcast. Here's my quick take on thi...
UCHealth Mass Vaccination Playbook
February 18, 2021 17:00 - 11 minutes - 7.96 MBIn their words. As vaccinating as many people as possible is a core component of ending the pandemic, we respectfully present our experience and lessons learned in the format of a COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Drive-Through Playbook. By sharing the details of our experience, including what went well, what we changed and what we would have changed, we hope that others can use any part of this playbook to inform future events. Key statistics from the event: Two, 6-hour days 10,000 vaccines adminis...
Price Transparency Exposes Healthcare Pricing for All to See
February 17, 2021 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.54 MBI've known people who drive miles to save $.03 on a gallon of gas. That's $1.50 on a full tank of gas. Imagine what these people will do when they can save $13,000 on a Colonoscopy. Will price transparency actually make a difference in healthcare? FTA: The nation’s roughly 6,000 hospitals have begun to reveal the secret rates they negotiate with insurers for a range of procedures. The data offer the first full look inside the confidential deals that set healthcare rates for insurers and e...
Disney World's Approach to Safety in the Parks
February 16, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes - 8.77 MBThis isn't about arguing the merits of opening or closing Disney parks in various locations. An interesting topic for someone else. This is about what Disney World is doing to protect its guests and staff during a time of a pandemic.
Safety at Walt Disney World
February 16, 2021 06:00 - 12 minutes - 8.83 MBThis isn't about arguing the merits of opening or closing Disney parks in various locations. An interesting topic for someone else. This is about what Disney World is doing to protect its guests and staff during a time of a pandemic.
My Trip to Walt Disney World
February 16, 2021 06:00 - 12 minutes - 8.77 MBThis isn't about arguing the merits of opening or closing Disney parks in various locations. An interesting topic for someone else. This is about what Disney World is doing to protect its guests and staff during a time of a pandemic.
Vaccine Distribution by the Numbers
February 15, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 9.28 MBA pandemic should only happen once in a lifetime, but what if it doesn't. Dr. Klasko provided an interesting thought exercise around what Jefferson Health might do during Pandemic 2030. I hope all of healthcare looks at what we've learned, develop a vision for how this might have been better and start to fill the gaps so the experience for the next pandemic might be different. I also did a bunch of research and start this show with a rundown of COVID and the Vaccine distribution by the num...
Truveta is Impressive, My Three Suggestions to Make it Better
February 12, 2021 15:00 - 9 minutes - 6.31 MBTruveta is big news. If for no other reason than it takes the poll position on data back from Epic. But that isn't all. It has great goals and impressive roster of participants and a massive amount of data, including mine and my families. Toward that end I have three suggestions for the new entity. From the Press Release Leading health providers have come together in unprecedented fashion to unite around the goal of improving the lives of those they serve through data insights. Health pr...
Does Your State have a Telehealth Commercial Payer Statute?
February 11, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.17 MBHave you ever wondered where your state is on the following questions? - Does your state have a Telehealth commercial payer statute? - Does the law have a coverage provision? - Does the law have a reimbursement provision? - Does your state have unrestricted originating site? - Member cost-shifting protections? (deductibles, co-insurance) - Does your state requires coverage for Remote patient monitoring? - Does your state requires coverage for asynchronous Telehealth? The people at Foley & L...
Home Level Acute Services - The New Frontier
February 10, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.89 MBHow are you going to deliver Acute level services in the home? The advancements in devices, models and creative partnerships are leading the way. Two articles today. FTA 1 AliveCor has updated the capabilities of its mobile ECG devices to identify three additional types of heart conditions, the company announced today. Sinus rhythm with supraventricular ectopy (SVE), sinus rhythm with premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) and sinus rhythm with wide QRS are now all on the table of Alive...
CHIME - HIMSS and the Future of Health IT Events
February 09, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.96 MBNo CIO Forum by CHIME at the HIMSS event this year. Three events from CHIME instead of two. Virtual / In Person / Live oh my. I have a few questions. What do you think this means for HIMSS or CHIME? More importantly, What does this mean for us, the members? Are you going to HIMSS in person this year if they are able to have it? These are interesting times for sure. I'm curious where you think this is going.
Patient Files Published to the Dark Web, Are Your Files Next?
February 08, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.58 MBWould you store your personal bank login, Your email login or your kids social security numbers on your health systems network? Why or Why Not? Here's a scary story. Hackers published detailed information from peoples medical records out on a blog on the dark web for anyone to download. FTA ----- Hackers have published extensive patient information from two U.S. hospital chains in an apparent attempt to extort them for money. The files, which number in at least the tens of thousands a...
Kaiser signs 10 Year Deal with Microsoft for Cloud Move
February 05, 2021 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.8 MBKaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Providence, Ascension... The list of very large healthcare providers moving to the cloud has just grown. What does this mean? The cloud has many benefits but the primary benefit is agility. Agility is the ability to move quickly in whatever direction you need to move. This is an emerging concept in #Healthcare IT. FTA With 12.4 million members and more than 85,000 clinicians, Kaiser Permanente has a lot of incentive to find ways to improve how care delivery w...
What is The Hotel California of Cloud Deals?
February 05, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes - 5.8 MBKaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Providence, Ascension... The list of very large healthcare providers moving to the cloud has just grown. What does this mean? The cloud has many benefits but the primary benefit is agility. Agility is the ability to move quickly in whatever direction you need to move. This is an emerging concept in #Healthcare IT. FTA With 12.4 million members and more than 85,000 clinicians, Kaiser Permanente has a lot of incentive to find ways to improve how care delivery ...
100 Million Vaccinations in 100 days, Come On Man, Stop Sandbagging
February 04, 2021 09:00 - 14 minutes - 9.77 MBSue Schade wrote a great article on the vaccine distribution. I particularly like the human interest side, we all know people who are waiting or who have driven 500 miles to get the vaccine. Her article is a great resource for anyone looking to dig a little deeper into this subject. Sue strikes an optimistic note in the article that we can see light at the end of the tunnel. I am much more optimistic. In fact I think the Presidents plan is what we call Sandbagging. If we don't hit 100...
2021 Health IT Predications the Final Chapter
February 03, 2021 15:00 - 9 minutes - 6.66 MBLast day of predictions. There are a set of predictions that aren't as hard to make, some might say they are obvious. What is going to happen in 2021 in these areas? Cloud? AI / ML? Voice Technologies? Telehealth? Work from Home? The direction in healthcare might be obvious. What are your thoughts? I close out the predictions with the elephant in the room. There will be a fallout in healthcare if we don't address this one challenge. I hope you enjoyed these three days of predictions, ...
2021 Health IT Predictions Part 2
February 02, 2021 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.25 MBThree more predictions for you today. Sometimes predictions are easy, follow the money or lack of it. The pandemic exposed business models that are too reliant on a single stream of revenue. In healthcares case it was Fee for Service models. What does that mean for 2021? The Teledoc/Livongo deal was pretty spectacular. What drove that valuation? What can that tell us about where value is going to be created in the Health Tech space? Equity was a major theme at the JP Morgan conferen...
2021 Health IT Predictions Part 1
February 01, 2021 15:00 - 11 minutes - 7.77 MBWhat are your predications for Health IT in 2021? I know I'm late, but we've been all vaccine, all the time for January, which is as it should be. Just click on comment below and let us know. Come on. Make a prediction. It's not a prediction unless you put it on paper before it happens. Over the next two or three days I will be laying out my predictions around cloud, government emphasis, telehealth, digital health investments and the like. Today, Where #cloud growth is going to come from...
Was Your Data Platform Ready for the Pandemic, Social Determinants...
January 29, 2021 16:00 - 7 minutes - 4.84 MBHow are you doing on my data maturity scale. Four steps. - First you use your data well - Integrate and use others data well - Use each others data well - Invite larger community to innovate on the data set Mayo is demonstrating all four from what I can tell right now. FTA The first step involved building a solid foundational data layer so disparate data sets could be combined in a meaningful way. There are three keys to getting the foundational data layer right, said Ilia Tulchinsky, t...
How the NFL Tackled the Spread of COVID Among Players and Staff
January 28, 2021 00:00 - 8 minutes - 5.75 MBThe NFL season is almost in the books and it serves as an interesting case study for the rest of the US. FTA: Despite a global pandemic, one of the nation's top sports leagues got all 256 regular-season games played within 17 weeks in 2020. And one of the first key lessons that helped the NFL drive forward? Officials learned playing football itself did not spread COVID-19. Despite the close physical contact during a football game, genomic epidemiology data analyzed by the NFL indicate ther...
MD to CMO of Digital Health - Making the Transition
January 27, 2021 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.46 MBChristina Farr wrote a great piece on the CMO role in Digital Health. Hiring or making the leap, this is a must read. FTA: Not all CMO jobs are the same According to Accolade’s CMO Dr. Shantanu Nundy, these are the four major types of CMO roles he tends to see in digital health: - CMO Product - CMO Sales - CMO Clinical Operations - CMO Optics Mixing two cultures Dr. Davis Liu from telemedicine start-up Lemonaid said it’s important that doctors moving into health-tech have a “curiosity/gro...
Dissecting Atrium Health's Mass Vaccination Event
January 26, 2021 15:00 - 8 minutes - 5.68 MBThe goal is shots in arms. Mass vaccination events are a fascinating case study of the capabilities that health system leaders are displaying at this critical moment. FTA: a unique public-private partnership will host the first of several mass vaccination events Atrium Health will be administering over 16,000 vaccinations to people who are at least 65 years of age at Charlotte Motor Speedway, as the first of two announced mass vaccination sites at professional sports venues. Bank of America...
Moving Beyond Technology Leadership - Orchestrate a Campaign
January 25, 2021 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.03 MBWhat IT improvements are needed to expedite vaccine rollout? Great list from these 5 CIOs. This got me to thinking, what would this look like if Amazon was running the vaccine distribution? From the article: 1. Analytics to identify the correct population at the correct time. 2. Scheduling for first and second doses with touchless checkin, 3. Outreach for reminders to capture more second doses 4. Automated education in all languages 5. Reporting to government entities. --------- Now Amazon ...
The Biden Administration Direction on Interoperability
January 22, 2021 15:00 - 6 minutes - 4.34 MBCongrats to Micky Tripathi recently named National Coordinator for Health IT for Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Great pick. Micky and I caught up late last year to discuss interoperability, past, present and future. He is an exceptional pick for this role. In Today's episode we explore what Direction the Biden Administration might take on interoperability. Hint. The 21st Century Cures Act was passed under the Obama administration.
Court Sends OCR back to the Drawing Board on HIPAA Enforcement
January 21, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.03 MBInteresting ruling by the 5th Circuit US Court of Appeals out of Louisiana. They vacated a $4.3M HIPAA penalty against MD Anderson Cancer Center. What does this mean? FTA: In a ruling that could have a profound impact on HIPAA enforcement, a U.S. Court of Appeals has vacated a $4.3 million HIPAA civil monetary penalty levied by federal regulators against the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the wake of three breaches involving unencrypted mobile devices. The court called the ...
Vaccines Don't Save People; Vaccinations Do
January 20, 2021 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.54 MBProject Management 101. Changing course mid project is disruptive. Do this only if it will dramatically change the outcome. We all agree, "vaccines don't save people; vaccinations do." The Biden plan as stated in this article. More sites, more people, increase supply of the vaccine. Let's break this down. The existing plan called for more sites like CVS pharmacies once the vaccine production reached capacity. Network of stores, 90% of US population within 10 miles of their locations, wit...
CVS, Vaccine Distribution and Interoperability
January 19, 2021 15:00 - 7 minutes - 5.34 MBCVS is a player in COVID testing and vaccine administration. They have EPIC as their EHR. Why don't they have open FHIR endpoints? Why aren't they participating in the Vaccine Credential Initiative? CVS was selected to distribute the vaccine in 40,000 long term care facilities across the US. At the JPM Conference, they announced that they had administered over 700,000 vaccines which accounted for 10% of the total vaccines that had been administered. They certainly have and will benefit fr...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Disparities at JP Morgan Healthcare 21
January 18, 2021 17:00 - 13 minutes - 9.12 MBDiversity, Equity and Inclusion and Health Disparities were front and center at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. A small sample. Health Disparities "While African-Americans comprise of only about 14% of the state's population, they comprise 40% of the deaths related to COVID 19, the state of Michigan." Henry Ford Health System "We have two times the rate for hypertension in our African-American population than we do in our Caucasian". Advocate-Aurora DE&I "Our board approved our 2021 K...
Vaccine Credential Initiative is a Proof Point for a decade of Interoperability Iniatives
January 15, 2021 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.29 MBStart the clock. The Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI) will show how far we've come with interoperability. Rewind three years. The idea that Cerner and Epic would participate in anything together, at least anything that was more than just a CYA announcement would be unheard of. Now they are both in on VCI. More on VCI. ----- FTA Participating organizations will agree to offer individuals with digital access to their vaccination records using the open, interoperable SMART Health Cards spec...
CEO Priorities from JP Morgan Healthcare 2021
January 14, 2021 16:00 - 5 minutes - 3.65 MB2021 will be the year that Cybersecurity finally becomes a top priority for healthcare. No really, this is the year. What are my data points. At the JPM conference this week I heard more executives talk about cybersecurity than at previous meetings. In fact, OhioHealth CEO floored me with their COVID plan which placed Cyber as one of the top two items back in March. Here's a quote. "It's been my experience that when you think about cyber, which is very, very important when you're going to...
JPMHC Day 2 - How is your Health System's Core?
January 13, 2021 16:00 - 7 minutes - 4.84 MBDay 2 of JP Morgan Healthcare is in the books. We are exploring the universal themes from Healthcare Providers. The Non-profit track is complete with 16 providers presenting to institutional investors. In previous years each health system had a set of growth strategies. We saw global expansion, investment and innovation strategies, new service organizations rising from within and taken out, M&A, low-asset moves into markets among others. #JMPHC21 was about the core. #COVID made all healt...
JP Morgan Healthcare Day 1 - Dominant Theme
January 12, 2021 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.63 MBJPM Healthcare conference (#JPMHC21) day one is in the books. If there was one theme from provider presenters it was __________. Answer below. What are your thoughts? I listened to 11 providers present to bondholders and institutional investors on their journey through COVID, their financial outlook, and plans moving forward. COVID hit the financials of every healthcare organization. The CARES act funding was extremely helpful to fill the three-month hole in most of their financials. Some ...
Florida Vaccine Case Study and JP Morgan Healthcare
January 11, 2021 16:00 - 7 minutes - 4.84 MBWhat does not perfect but pretty darn good look like for vaccine distribution communication from a state perspective? Florida The Good. - The Governor is over communicating. https://www.flgov.com - There are many sites to get the vaccine. https://lnkd.in/gkHEkmD - You can register at the county website. https://lnkd.in/g9esqAQ - Multiple channels of communication. The COVID-19 Call Center is available 24/7 1 (866) 779-6121 | [email protected] | For Important Updates Text FLCOVID19 to 8...
Optum Acquires Change Healthcare
January 07, 2021 15:00 - 8 minutes - 5.84 MBWhat does a national healthcare company look like in the US? Perhaps a large payer operation, a technology arm, an advanced data analytics and AI capability, a PBM and a large and growing provider network. That is UnitedHealthcare Group. Here are some numbers from just about Optum from last year. 1. Optum serves 120 million individual consumers and 80 percent of health plans. 2. OptumInsights serves 90 percent of hospitals in the U.S. 3. OptumInsights provides data mining services and predi...
The Chief Marketing Role During the Pandemic
January 06, 2021 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.84 MBHow has the Chief Marketing Officer for a health system changed during the pandemic? Yesterday I received an email from my homeowners association. It was an outline from the local health system with talking points on the vaccine distribution, dates of administration, guidelines, locations, and links to schedule your appointment with reference to state resources on the topic. This got me thinking. How did this happen? NCH Healthcare System developed this email. A group must have thought how ...
Haven's End, A New Beginning
January 05, 2021 15:00 - 7 minutes - 5.09 MBSimple conclusions are often wrong and lead to incorrect learning. What is your takeaway from Haven's end? I wanted to remember what I was thinking when I heard about Haven. On January 30th, 2018 I posted an article on Health Lyrics website. Here's what the founders were saying from the article. (FTA) FTA: “The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy. Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But we also do not accept it as inevitable.” Wa...
Haven's End
January 05, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.09 MBSimple conclusions are often wrong and lead to incorrect learning. What is your takeaway from Haven's end? I wanted to remember what I was thinking when I heard about Haven. On January 30th, 2018 I posted an article on Health Lyrics website. Here's what the founders were saying from the article. (FTA) FTA: “The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy. Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But we also do not accept it as inevitable.” W...
Rolling Out the Covid Vaccine Is a Huge IT Challenge
January 04, 2021 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.26 MBWhat does our struggle to distribute and track vaccine administration in our community tell us about our health data infrastructure? I was surprised to find that many of the questions from two weeks ago with regard to vaccine distribution are still around. Who has it, where and when can I get it, how is it going to be tracked? Sure there are pictures of people getting the vaccine online, but who's next and how do I get in line are still unclear to many of the people I interacted with over th...