Harvard Business Review: How Hospitals Can Manage Supply Shortages as Demand Surges
As everyone has become painfully aware, acute shortages of materials like masks, ventilators, intensive care unit (ICU) capacity, and staff are hamstringing the heroic efforts of health care professionals around the world to address the
HealthLeaders: Cleaning and Reusing Hospital Masks: Is it Safe?
As California ramps up its purchase of protective gear for health care workers, the state also has set a back-up plan in motion: cleaning masks...
HealthLeaders: Geisinger Seeks Opportunities to Accelerate Healthcare Transformation Through COVID-19 Response
The Steele Institute for Healthcare Innovation is not only responding to the crisis, but examining the response for opportunities to impact future innovations.
FierceBiotech: FDA OKs on-site decontamination systems for reusing millions of N95 respirator masks
The FDA greenlighted its second and third systems for decontaminating N95 respirators, both previously used on-site at many health systems nationwide. Together, the agency estimates this will allow nearly 5 million masks to be processed
The New Yorker: How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags?
On Saturday, March 21st, while Donald Trump was tweeting about the “Chinese virus” and circulating praise for the “great job we’ve done,” Eric Ries received a phone call from another Silicon Valley C.E.O. His friend Jeff Lawson, of
Modern Healthcare Commentary: Protecting the healthcare workforce is a prerequisite in the COVID-19 crisis
Healthcare is a human-intensive industry; we must deliberately focus on protecting our staff from harm as a first principle.