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Engineering a Better System: A Materials Science Perspective on US Health Care After COVID-19

June 2, 2022 hcblog

This post is an article written by two students. One a medical student and the other, a recent Engineering graduate…

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Filed under: covid19, Engineering, healthcare, pandemic

Tying CEO Compensation To Value-Based Purchasing Scores | Health Affairs Blog

July 12, 2021 hcblog

We discuss the recent push toward linking CEO compensation to hospital quality metrics in addition to financial targets: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210701.255615/full/

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Health 2049 podcasts

June 21, 2021 hcblog

Myself and a colleague (Natalie Landman) were recently guests on a new podcast, Health2049, that explores using design strategy to…

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Gain-of-Function viral “research” and the NIH oversight responsibility

June 9, 2021 hcblog 2 Comments

As the theory of a possible lab leak as the source of the covid19 pandemic gains steam in the media…

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Filed under: BSL, coronavirus, covid19, gain of function, lab accidents, National Institutes of Health, NIH, pandemic, SARS, virology, virus

Is there hope for healthcare? What would you do?

January 27, 2021 hcblog 1 Comment

These are the recurring questions from my students and colleagues. My response, I think there is hope. After all, the past…

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A New Model for National Emergency Medical Care

January 15, 2021 hcblog

By Denis A. Cortese and Curtiss B. Cook Please see below our excerpt from The Bridge, a recent publication of…

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The important role of socio-economic status in the overall health in the USA: Whose job is it anyway?

September 22, 2020 hcblog 1 Comment

Health, as defined by WHO, is not just the absence of disease, but an overall sense of wellbeing. Determinants of population…

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Filed under: health, healthcare, social determinants of health, socio-economic status

Lessons from covid19 – part 4: The role of health status

August 26, 2020 hcblog 2 Comments

With contributions from Rujuta Takalkar and Natalia Wilson, MD, MPH We concluded the first blog in this series with the…

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How, not when

July 21, 2020 hcblog

As new Covid 19 cases have spiked recently in states like Texas and Florida, it is not unusual to hear…

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Lessons from covid19 – Part 3: Where are we now? What’s next?

May 26, 2020 hcblog 1 Comment

As the country starts to slowly evolve from “lockdowns” and “stay at home,” there is understandable fear that the relaxation…

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