Population and Public Health

LifeBridge Health CIO Tressa Springmann shares how the health system has adapted its EHR and IT systems for complex COVID-19 vaccine scheduling and administration – and how it plans to capitalize on shifting provider-consumer paradigms.

Dr. Azizi Seixas explains why communities of color are at greater risk of suffering severe consequences, including secondary ones, from the pandemic.

Symmetric Health Solutions CEO Rich Kucera and Northern Light's Matt Marston discuss how COVID-19 has affected the supply chain as well as Northern Light's successful vaccine rollout.

Deep Dive: As NASA prepares to send astronauts to Mars in the not so distant future, innovators look at what space health could teach us about human health in general.

This week's top stories include the ClassPass app providing members with the most convenient locations to receive vaccinations, glitches in New Jersey's Microsoft-powered vaccine registration portal, and COVID-19 costs catching up to insurers.

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, director of clinical analytics at Linguamatics, shares how machine learning can help flag troubling patterns and improve systems moving forward.

This week's top stories include Google Cloud joining the national COVID-19 vaccination effort with a new distribution tool, the feds sending one million COVID-19 vaccine doses to 6,500 pharmacies, and a security breach at Montefiore Medical Center.

Monica Jones, chief data officer for Health Data Research UK and executive lead for Yorkshire and Humber Care Record, says standardized datasets have required an acceleration of digital transformation and interoperable standards in particular.

Megan Callahan, VP of healthcare at Lyft, details how the ridesharing company responded to new demands as a result of COVID-19.

Professor Claudia Pagliari, director of global eHealth at the University of Edinburgh, says sharing data with local public health authorities will improve management of public health crises while also reducing health inequalities.