When Bean Counters Manage Patient Care

When Bean Counters Manage Patient Care

My nurse colleague with more than 20 years of experience in patient care started working at an ambulatory care clinic about two years ago. Soon after she joined, a large for-profit healthcare company purchased the non-profit clinics. Initially, work went on as usual....
Provider Road to Recovery: Phase 1

Provider Road to Recovery: Phase 1

The American Hospital Association estimates the lost revenue to hospitals from the pandemic to be $50.7 bil. per month or $202.6 bil. over the four-month period March 1 through June 30, 2020. Their estimates are based upon expected cancellations of patient services,...
The Choice

The Choice

The inherent nature of patient care requires making a choice. What therapy will help the patient get better? What is the probability the drug will cure the disease? What are the risks? Can the chemotherapy lead to injury or death? Both clinicians and their patients...
What to Think About Once We Start Containment

What to Think About Once We Start Containment

As the number of cases of COVID-19 decreases in communities, public health officials will move from mitigation to containment techniques to further control the pandemic. This shift in focus requires a broad program of contact tracing to identify people who have been...
We Need Data

We Need Data

As the SAR-CoV-2 virus follows its destiny around the world working to upend all that we know as normal, public health officials, scientists, politicians, journalists, and citizens realize the only way they can effectively battle the virus is through the use of data....