Canadian vaccine candidates have been registered with the World Health Organization. And while the Pfizer and Moderna jabs have high efficacy rates, experts agree that society will need as many potential cures as possible to quickly and affordably eradicate the virus. Some vaccine candidates may be more effective in certain ages ...
What if 5 patients come to the emergency department at the same time. And what if all 5 patients need admission to the ICU and need to be put on a ventilator but there are only 2 ICU beds and only 2 ventilators available? How can this decision be made ...
A small number of patients consume a large proportion of the total national health care budget.1 These medically and socially complex patients have been the target of efforts by health systems and insurers to bend the cost curve of increasing health care expenditures. To date, care management programs designed to ...
The team at RCM Health Consultancy has a client in a large children's hospital. This 14 year old client is very complex. She has problems covering several medical disciplines. These include: neurology, endocrinology, cardiology, gastroenterology and psychiatry. We were informed by a recognized medical doctor at the large children's hospital ...
Making a Dent in the Trillion-Dollar Problem: Toward Zero Defects Source: NEJM Catalyst Innovations In Care Delivery Dec 9 2020 Most efforts to eliminate defects in health care value have been piecemeal rather than systematic. Here is a framework for savings that can be achieved by eliminating defects in value. ...
BrainQ is a world class brain technology company in Israel. The company has a very innovative technology to promote brain healing following stroke or other neurodegenerative diseases. The technology borders on being brilliant and takes on the challenge of healing strokes which have always felt to be untreatable. This will ...
Mark Toshner explains why you shouldn’t be alarmed that scientists have developed a coronavirus vaccine so quickly I’m a clinical trials geek. I keep hearing people talk about the seven to 10 years it takes to make a vaccine and how dangerous speeding this up might be. The word that keeps popping ...
Case One: BACKGROUNDA 66-year-old male presents with subacuteconfusion (encephalitis) and reports aweight loss of 40 pounds. His spinal fluid is abnormal and is sent to MayoClinic Laboratories for an AutoimmuneEncephalopathy evaluation. The evaluation detects an unclassified antibody, which isreported back to the treating physician. The patient is discovered to have ...
The importance of purpose Authors: Annie Lamont is a managing partner at Oak HC/FT and the first lady of the state of Connecticut. David Knott is a senior partner in McKinsey’s New York office. Twenty years ago, there was a big push toward physician-practice-management roll-ups. It was really a financial play. The doctors ...
The motivation for this piece came from thinking deeply for two years about pharmacare. The thinking proved to be circular and went nowhere. And from a piece in the New York times today on the role of government in solving massive social problems. The private sector can't do that without ...