13 Jul VIDEO | Cedars-Sinai – New surge of cases in California hospitals
Dr. Jeff Smith, COO of Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, discussed what was learned after participating in some cutting-edge corona virus studies....
13 Jul The Keckley Report – Outsiders are looking beyond the pandemic: The four vulnerabilities they are likely to pursue
Healthcare delivery in the U.S. is big business: annual spending for hospitals, physicians, allied health professionals, post-acute services and the prescriptions and tests they order represent almost 80% of the $3.8 trillion we spend. They’re the insiders....
12 Jul Advocate Aurora – The heart: Before, during and after COVID-19
COVID-19 can not only exacerbate existing heart problems, but cause new ones....
09 Jul Northwestern – Coronavirus Chicago: Man becomes 2nd COVID-19 survivor to receive rare double-lung transplant
Northwestern Medicine surgeons performed a second double-lung transplant on a COVID-19 patient last weekend....
08 Jul Baystate – Massachusetts COVID-19 health equity task force, which is examining disparities exposed by pandemic, off to slow start
A health equity task force charged with addressing racial, geographic and other disparities during the coronavirus pandemic is off to a slower start than anticipated, missing its June 30 interim filing deadline....
08 Jul UW Health – Industry Voices:What health systems must do to embrace the new normal
Before mid-March, UW Health, was operating a Level 1 Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), the most comprehensive and serious emergency response for a health system. But HICS is designed for “incidents,” or short-term crises. How do you address a long-term emergency?...
08 Jul CommonSpirit doubles down on primary care with new direct-to-employer partnership
Nonprofit giant CommonSpirit Health is partnering with direct primary care provider Paladina Health to offer direct-to-employer primary care in CommonSpirit's 21-state footprint, with the goal of lowering skyrocketing healthcare costs and improving preventive care....
08 Jul Intermountain, Stanford Children’s CEOs say hospitals need to get comfortable being a ‘frenemy’
Health systems have had to adjust to a lot of change in a short amount of time since the COVID-19 pandemic began....
07 Jul Partners – New technique evaluates connectivity of brain networks in COVID-19 patients
Investigators led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) now describe a patient with severe COVID-19 who, despite prolonged unresponsiveness and structural brain abnormalities, demonstrated functionally intact brain connections and weeks later he recovered the ability to follow commands....
06 Jul University Hospitals – NASA teams with University Hospitals to combat COVID-19
NASA’s Glenn Research Center and University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland have collaborated to develop new methods and technologies for decontaminating personal protective equipment (PPE) for aerospace applications and for safeguarding the health of workers caring for patients with coronavirus (COVID-19)....