Johannes O. Ferstad, BA1, Angela Gu, BS2, Raymond Y. Lee, BA1, Isha Thapa, BA1, Kevin Schulman, MD3,4, David Scheinker, PhD1,3,4,5 and Andrew Y. Shin, MD6 1Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University School of Engineering 2Department of Computer Science, Stanford University School of Engineering 3Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine 4Clinical Excellence … Read More
Marwah Younis Damani, RPh. PharmD, Managing Director, Seamless Care Pharmacy, Scarborough, Ontario. Medical Director, Community Living Toronto Getting from Sharing Space to Social Distance By March 2, 2020, Canadians were well aware of the escalating impacts of a novel virus around the world. Yet, while COVID-19 was receiving a lot of air time and the … Read More
Dmitry Krass, Sydney Cooper Professor of Business Technology, Professor of Operations Management and Analytics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto High-Risk Response The response by most governments and public health authorities in the West to the coronavirus pandemic has been guided by the gospel of “social distancing”: essentially freeze all social interactions to “stop … Read More
While the clinical story of COVID-19 is evolving in the medical literature, the management side of this crisis lacks a natural home for timely publications. The editorial team of HMPI has recognized this gap and plans to use this journal as a vehicle to help address this unmet need in providing important management information. In … Read More
Alvaro Salas, MD, University of Costa Rica, and Andrea M. Prado, PhD, INCAE Business School “The day will come when a sneeze in the East will generate a cataclysm in the West,” Libia Herrero, MD, said in a talk about viruses at the University of Costa Rica, some years ago. This day has arrived! Against … Read More
Sara Benetti, MBA, and Alberto Trejos, PhD, INCAE Business School COVID-19 in Latin America With the World Health Organization’s pandemic declaration due to the impressive rise in the number of infections, deaths, and affected countries, as well as with the manifestations of the economic effects in the stock markets, many people around the world are beginning … Read More
Samuel C. Thomas, MD, MS, Harris Carmichael, MD, Stacie Vilendrer, MD, MBA, Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine; Intermountain Healthcare Delivery Institute, Intermountain Healthcare; and Maja Artandi, MD, Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine The Value of Telemedicine in a Pandemic The 2019 … Read More
Sanjay B. Saxena, MD, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Josh Hilton, MD, Partner and Managing Director, BCG; Brett Spencer, MD, Partner and Managing Director, BCG; Amika Porwal, Health Care Knowledge Expert, BCG Preparing for the Pandemic Healthcare providers are on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight. The virus is formidable, … Read More
Alex F. Mills, PhD, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, and Jonathan E. Helm, PhD, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University What is “Medical Surge” and Why Does It Matter? Medical surge is the ability to rapidly increase the supply of medical services in a community to care for a volume of patients that is … Read More
Kurt Waltenbaugh and Won Gabriel Chung, MD, Carrot Health, Inc. [i] [i] Carrot Health, Inc. is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Carrot MarketView™ software platform incorporates social, behavioral, environmental, and economic barriers to health data to deliver a 360 degree view of the consumer, providing actionable insights to inform growth, health, and quality. Contact: https://carrothealth.com/contact/ … Read More
