Telehealth is a proven way to improve patient access to care and to lower overall health costs. It’s time to make it a permanent fixture of our healthcare system.
Category: Policy
Inhaler nonadherence and social determinants of health
Cities and urban environments tend to have large gaps in health care accessibility and correspondent health care disparities. Despite the existence of localized public health infrastructure, such infrastructure tends to be fragmented and cannot fully e…
CDC Significantly Loosens Mask Guidelines
The CDC wants to “give people a break” from wearing masks when severe Covid-19 infections are low, Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
CDC Will Reportedly Stop Recommending Masking Indoors In Most Instances
The CDC plans to significantly loosen mask guidelines Friday, as part of a broader recalibration of the metrics it uses to study Covid-19, the Associated Press reported.
Are hospital CEOs are responding to the realities of health care?
On December 14th, 2021, hospital CEOs met under the guise of The Transformative CEO Healthcare Summit to brainstorm novel ideas in health care and to create “a new world ecosystem.” Themes included how to utilize medical data, how technolog…
Nurses are in need of racial healing
In a recent survey of nurses (n=5,600), 63% of respondents reported having experienced racism in the workplace. These racist acts were mainly done by peers (66%) or a manager or supervisor (60%). Such widespread racism should send shockwaves throughout…
Are we opening everything too quickly?
In “Open Everything” published in The Atlantic on February 9th, 2022, Yascha Mounk discusses his arguments for lifting any remaining COVID-19 restrictions to “shake off the pandemic malaise.” He asserts that we are “in dan…
How inflation fueled health care costs
The 3-hour concert was over. On the way back to the car, the excitement of it all kept us singing the lyrical masterpiece. I turned on the ignition and typed in our address. “You have 1 hour and 35 minutes to go,” the GPS alerted me. I glan…
Better health care for less, version 2.0
An excerpt from Modern Healthcare Delivery, Deliverance or Debacle: A Glimpse From the Inside Out. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein In…
Shedding Mask Mandates: A Step Towards Life After Covid-19?
Public health law experts Lawrence Gostin, Alexandra Finch and Sarah Wetter discuss how close we are to the end of the pandemic—and what health policies might be needed as Covid-19 becomes endemic.
