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Tech Talk Interview: Farhana Nakhooda, SVP of Healthcare & Life Sciences
LISTEN: Farhana Nakhooda, Senior Vice President of Healthcare & Life Sciences (Asia Pacific) at Health Catalyst How can a data-driven integrated healthcare platform help healthcare providers achieve measurable and data-informed healthcare improvement, ultimately reducing healthcare costs and waste in the long run? LISTEN TO INTERVIEW
Family-Friendliest Award: Organizations Seek to Be the Calm in the Storm for Employees During Pandemic
Read Full Article By Steven Ross Johnson | October 8, 2020 For places like Marimn Health, addressing the needs and well-being of their more than 200 employees was a key component to handling the fiscal pressures caused by COVID-19. Located on an Indian reservation and owned and operated by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, the Idaho-based health system had established an employee benefits program that provided workers and their families a number of supports to address stress, anxiety issues or financial concerns well before the pandemic. But as the threat of COVID-19 led to schools closing throughout the area, Marimn considered hiring its own teachers who could provide a makeshift school for employees’ children. “If…
Covid As an Accelerant: On Value-based Care (Yes), On Telemedicine (Partly), on AI (Not So Much) (Managed Healthcare Executive)
Read Full Article By Peter Wehrwein and Briana Contreras | Sept 5, 2020 Improved medical management of acute respiratory disease and a shift toward value-based care will be two of the last effects of COVID-19 pandemic, according to Brent James, M.D., M.Stat. “We are seeing the financial model shift,” James said in a video interview this past week with Managed Healthcare Executive®. “And if anything, Covid has accelerated the shift to provider-at-risk, pay for value, population health — all names for the same thing.” James has been a leader in taking a systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety t and became well known for his work in that area at Intermountain Healthcare…
Balance Lacking in the COVID-19 Response (Managed Healthcare)
Read Full Article By Peter Wehrwein and Briana Contreras | Sept 3, 2020 Brent James, M.D., M.Stat., doesn’t want to be misunderstood. COVID-19 is a big deal. But… “How do I nuance this? Covid is a very important disease, it has had a major impact,” James said in video interview with Managed Healthcare Executive® this week. “But not to the extent that some of the news media and some of our political leaders have pumped it. This is well within our scale as it turns out.” James, an international leader in quality improvement and patient safety who became well known for his work at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, said the initial reaction…
Plasma should not be considered standard care for coronavirus, NIH panel says (CNN)
Read Full Article By Maggie Fox | Sept 2, 2020
(CNN)A National Institutes of Health panel said there's no evidence backing the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients and that doctors should not treat it as a standard of care until more study has been done.
"There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19," the panel of more than three dozen experts said in a statement posted on the NIH website Tuesday. The statement, which was posted quietly, contradicts the Trump Administration's characterization of the treatment as "historic" and a "major advance" and directly refers to…Real-World Data: US FDA Gets 2 Out Of 10 In Abernethy’s Self-Assessment Of COVID Usage (Pink Sheet)
Read Full Article By Sue Sutter | Sept 2, 2020 Executive Summary But principal deputy commissioner gives FDA an ‘8 or 9 on vision’ of how to use RWD to address the pandemic and other challenges. The low ‘execution’ score is due to the large amount of effort needed to understand what datasets are available, how they can be used with confidence and what questions they can answer, Abernethy says... View Full Article Read Full Article
3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Change Healthcare (Forbes)
READ FULL ARTICLE By Konstantine Buhler | Aug 4, 2020 It’s no secret that healthcare costs have risen faster than inflation for decades. Some experts estimate that healthcare will account for over 20% of the US GDP by 2025. Meanwhile, doctors are working harder than ever before to treat patients as the U.S. physician shortage continues to grow. Many medical professionals have their schedules packed so tightly that much of the human element which motivated their pursuit of medicine in the first place is reduced. In healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI) can seem intimidating. At the birthday party of a radiologist friend, she gently expressed how she… View Full Article
