Although achieving herd immunity is critical to ending the pandemic, it makes sense to look at this task regionally, rather than by country or state.
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When in Crisis Mode, Let Everyone Follow the Data
During normal times, managers often make decisions based on their knowledge and experience; analysis of data to varying degrees informs that decision-making process. Circumstances change at an easily manageable pace, errors in judgment can be corrected, and the impact of those poor choices is often insignificant. During a healthcare crisis, however, the cost of being wrong is exponential.
Continue readingProvider Road to Recovery: Phase 1
To survive, provider organizations must quickly restore their previous revenue streams while preparing for the potential next waves of the pandemic. Successful recovery for these organizations is not represented by a return to the old ways of providing services.
Continue readingThe Choice
Data informs our decision making, hopefully leading us to better choices. But in the end, it is us humans who choose.
Continue readingSARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Not an Easy Shot in the Arm
No country will be fully safe until all citizens are vaccinated. This is the only way to achieve a high enough level of heard immunity to halt the pandemic.
Continue readingWhat to Think About Once We Start Containment
Will Americans allow themselves to be tracked via their mobile phones, credit card transactions, and CCTV video to halt the pandemic? How much privacy will Americans give up to return to a semblance of normal?
Continue readingWe Need Data
Gut feelings and “I think” or “I believe” no longer carry weight. The regular use of data by decision makers will hopefully be one that helps prevent a crisis of this magnitude from occurring again.
Continue readingCOVID-19 Pandemic: Optimistic Heart and Worrying Head
With our focus on what is happening in New York, many are missing what is happening elsewhere.
Continue readingNot the Time to Ease Up
I hope that the general public, while rooting for the people of NYC, understand that their own fate depends upon them maintaining social distance, washing their hands, and obeying the advice of public officials.
Continue readingFrom Snow to Achuff: Using Analytics to Drive Clinical Change
John Snow, the English physician whose work arguably helped to halt an 1854 London cholera epidemic, is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology. Drawing on his knowledge of statistics, Snow decided to plot …
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