25 Mar 2021

  This week Luis, and Nick review the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine rollout in the context of digital health tools. We discuss scheduling software, coordination, telehealth, and home monitoring and the importance of capturing the data for future reporting, and how this has been an essential tool and contribution to advances made in fighting the pandemic Our weekly question an...

19 Mar 2021

  Gregg Masters  00:04 This episode of PopHealth Week is sponsored by Health Innovation Media. Health Innovation Media brings your brand narrative alive both on the ground in the virtual space for major trade show conference in Innovation Summit via our signature pop up studio. Connect with us at www.popupstudio.productions. I'm Gregg Masters Managing Director of Health Innova...

16 Mar 2021

Recently there has been a lot of discussion of using incentives or penalties to improve the vaccination rates for COVID-19. Hesitancy is a big concern and getting vaccines into enough people to create some level of Herd Immunity rapidly given the variants is very important. While incentives for COVID vaccines are a relatively new topic, this has been an ongoing issue for decades in the w...

16 Mar 2021

  This week Fred talks about his personal vaccine experience and some of the challenges of coordination that need to be resolved so as many people as possible get access to vaccination as quickly as possible. Different states and counties have different processes some work well, others create difficulties for people at different stages. We also talk about health literacy and ...

15 Mar 2021

Susan Cantrell discusses what AMCP is, what they do, and why they decided to partner with PopHealth Week on the new podcast series The AMCP Podcast Series Powered by PopHealth Week. For more information go to the AMCP Website. Fred Goldstein  00:00 Hello, this is Fred Goldstein with the CEO of AMCP, Susan Cantrell. Welcome, Susan, Susan Cantrell  00:06 Thank you for having me...

11 Mar 2021

  This week Fred, Luis, and Nick review the challenges of re-opening, what companies and schools need to consider as they think about reopening. Are there measures that you need to think about, what does herd immunity mean and how is it relevant and how do you track and process all the various options that individuals may have around testing, symptoms, vaccines (including which o...

09 Mar 2021

Here is an excellent article Sustaining University Operations during the COVID-19 Pandemic  published in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness by Ben Ryan et al, on the work done at Baylor University to open and operate during the COVID-19 Pandemic.  There are many recommendations that they identified which can help other schools and businesses operate safer, including: E...

08 Mar 2021

  This week Fred and Nick discuss the huge challenge of extended mental health issues that are sweeping through our world post pandemic and the importance of making this a priority for your business. We talk through some of the current status of legislation on vaccine requirements and the variation by states that in some cases has seen legislation to prohibit any type of mand...

08 Mar 2021

    Well it took a while but we realized we had never posted this on the website. Catch this interesting discussion Fred had with Stacy Richter discussing the Six Essential Steps to Get Population Health Right, on the Relentless Health Value Podcast. Read the transcript here   http://chtbl.com/track/9DDG2/traffic.libsyn.com/healthvalue/RHV_261_Fred_Golds...