HMPI Blog
COVID-19 Special Issue
Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine Healthcare Providers Face Financial Pressures To Reopen Healthcare systems in the United States are suffering from a drop in volume as patients have curtailed the use of non-emergent healthcare services. The economics of this abrupt drop in demand are severe – healthcare … Read More
Will Mitchell, Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization & Professor of Strategy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto Life Sciences Companies Are Key To Creating COVID-19 Solutions Many pharmaceutical firms and other companies in the commercial life sciences sector are actively working on short-term and long-term solutions to COVID-19. Firms are … Read More
Aaron Baird, Georgia State University, Kellen Mermin-Bunnell, Yale University and WellStar Health System, and Jason Lesandrini, Wellstar Health System Contact: Aaron M. Baird abaird@gsu.edu What Is Contact Tracing? Contact tracing includes two primary processes: (1) case identification and investigation, and (2) proximity tracking, alerting, and follow-up.1 Contact tracing is used by public health officials to … Read More
Ranjith P V, Associate Professor of Decision Science, CMS Business School, JAIN Deemed to be University; Uma Warrier, Professor & Area Chair, CMS Business School, and Chief Counsellor, JAIN Deemed to be University; and Aparna J Varma, Associate Professor of Marketing, GSSS Institute of Engineering & Technology for Women India is Using a Complete Lockdown … Read More
Jianhong Wu, PhD, Professor, University Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics, York University COVID-19 and Influenza May Be Confused with Each Other As global public health authorities exert their best efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are trying to determine whether the disease will be eradicated, naturally attenuate and become endemic, or, like influenza, become … Read More
Lironn Kraler, MD, and Kevin Schulman, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine GPS Tracking Tools Will Help Track Social Distancing Adherence to social distancing recommendations is crucial to limit the spread of COVID-19, but there are few tools to track this in real-time. Further, we currently lack specific tools to understand the behaviors within individual … Read More
Kelly McFarlane, BS1,2+, Teng Zhang, BA3+, Jacqueline Vallon, BS BA3+, Linying Yang, BS4, Jin Xie, BS4, Peter Glynn, PhD3, and David Scheinker, PhD3,7-9 1Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 3Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University School of Engineering, Stanford, CA 4Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Stanford … Read More
Pinar Karaca-Mandic, PhD; Archelle Georgiou, MD; Soumya Sen, PhD; Yi Zhu; Khoa Vu; Alexander Everhart University of Minnesota Pandemics Are Inevitable – A Weak Response Is Not While the emergence of COVID-19 may not have been preventable, the tragic impact of the virus could have been mitigated with better preparation and response. As the pandemic … Read More
Rulon F. Stacey, Ph.D., FACHE, and Jiban Khuntia, PhD, Director, Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Health Administration, University of Colorado, Denver Join the related Webinar with the authors on Thursday, April 23, 2020: Leading to Recovery: Planning Priorities for Healthcare Organizations Post-COVID-19. Register here. 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Mountain Time COVID+1: We Need to … Read More
The University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics recently hosted its first virtual seminar on recent COVID-19-related developments. Six experts discussed topics including a realistic timeline for the development of a COVID-19 treatment and vaccine, long-term social distancing options, and the plight of small businesses and hourly workers. The Leonard Davis Institute, to … Read More