Healthcare IT Archives

Final Two Phases on the Road to Recovery

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jun 16, 2020 | Archives

In my first two articles on our road to recovery, I covered the first two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. In them I shared my thoughts on how provider organizations could restart their service lines and expand their operations. Phase 3 of the pandemic is defined as...

When in Crisis Mode, Let Everyone Follow the Data

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jun 1, 2020 | Analytics

[DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_SOCIAL_ICONS] COVID-19 turned the world turned upside down. The pandemic changed every part of my daily routine, limiting my trips to the grocery store, physically distancing me from family, friends, and colleagues, and forcing me to work from home....

SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Not an Easy Shot in the Arm

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 22, 2020 | Archives

A crisis has a way of focusing the mind. With millions infected and hundreds of thousands of dead from SARS-CoV-2 infections, thousands of life science company and university center researchers from around the world are working tirelessly to develop a COVID-19...

What to Think About Once We Start Containment

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 15, 2020 | Archives

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

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 13, 2020 | Archives

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....