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How The 80/20 Rule Can Save Your Life During The Coronavirus Reopening
Applying the Pareto principle to our nation’s coronavirus response offers a much safer and more effective set of solutions, maximizing the lives saved while ensuring the “cure” isn’t worse than the disease itself.
6 Measures That Could Prevent A Post-Coronavirus Depression
There will come a day when the greatest threat from the COVID-19 is not medical, but financial. How the United States navigates the coronavirus recession will depend largely on the government policies enacted now.
3 Coronavirus Facts Americans Must Know Before Returning To Work, School
As states hammer out plans to ease restrictions, Americans remain chronically misinformed about the coronavirus. These three facts are key to ensuring the safe reopening of businesses and schools.
Wall Street Wobbles As Investors Ignore The Science Of COVID-19
Scientists and health officials understand the transmissibility and lethality of COVID-19 very well. Why then do investors appear completely flustered by the disease?
7 Dangerous Myths About The COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Avoiding many of the worst consequences and doomsday predictions will depend, in part, on the ability of Americans to act according to the facts.
The Mystery Of The Hospital Industry’s Silence Over EHR Rule Proposal
The nation’s largest hospital systems have remained curiously quiet concerning a recent proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to “support seamless and secure access, exchange, and use of electronic health information.”
How AI Can Live Up To Its Hype In The Healthcare Industry
Because tech companies too often fail to prioritize human needs over business interests, medicine’s most-hyped AI applications have failed, repeatedly, to move the needle on public health, patient safety or healthcare costs.
What US Healthcare Can Learn From Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes
Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes could teach American healthcare a valuable lesson about living up to the hype.
3 Reasons Hospital Mergers Fail
Hospitals administrators and national association groups have defended past mergers by promising the deals will lower costs and improve patient care. They almost never do.
The Boldest Healthcare Prediction For 2020: Business As Usual
In healthcare, the past is a reliable predictor of the future. And when you look at key performance measures—such as cost, quality and satisfaction—it’s clear that U.S. healthcare underperformed over the last decade.
