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)....
06 Jul The Keckley Report – Is Gilead’s price for remdesivir fair?
Last week, Gilead Sciences announced pricing for its breakthrough Covid-19 drug remdesivir (brand name Veklury) approved by the FDA for emergency use in May....
01 Jul Emory – Federal Officials Turn to a New Testing Strategy as Infections Surge
Millions of additional coronavirus tests may be processed with “pooling,” enabling widespread surveillance as the country struggles to reopen....
25 Jun How We Reopen Safely
We are a group of public health & crisis experts with experience working at the White House, Department of Health & Human Services, and on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Learn more....
23 Jun VIDEO | Bill Russell Field Report: Froedtert Health with CTO Tahir Ali
#ThisWeekinHealthIT we sit down with Tahir Ali the CTO for Froedtert Health for another field report....
23 Jun Memorial Health System – Don’t ‘Break the Bank’ When Innovating for COVID-19 and Beyond. What One Health System Did
The Memorial Health System team used standard data management and visualization tools to create a powerful dashboard, contact tracing system, and PPE and community hot spot surveillance tools without additional workforce. Their approach could serve as inspiration to small- and medium-sized health systems....
22 Jun The Keckley Report – Medpac Report to Congress: No surprises but incomplete
Ina letter to Vice President Pence and House Speaker Pelosi last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission conveyed its annual report to Congress: “Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System.” In the 227-page report, the commissioners warned that “unless substantial changes are made to the...
19 Jun Banner Health – The doctor leading the coronavirus response at the largest health system in Arizona shares how it’s confronting a surge in cases since the state reopened
On June 8, Banner Health sounded the alarm on the rising number of coronavirus cases in Arizona. The number of people on ventilators had quadrupled since the state reopened on May 15, the health system said. Banner Health operates in eight states and is the...