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Phase 2: Next Stop on Provider Road to Recovery

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jun 4, 2020 | Archives

In my first article on a Provider Road to Recovery I shared the steps provider organizations needed to take to respond to the needs of patients who delayed elective care due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By taking these steps organizations restarted their service lines...

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....

Provider Road to Recovery: Phase 1

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | May 20, 2020 | Archives

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,...

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....