05 Mar 2021

Our guest today on PopHealth Week is Nancy Brickhouse, PhD, Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Baylor University a tenured Professor of education and a nationally recognized scholar. We discuss one major University's experience re-opening in the COVID-19 pandemic and how University leaderhip leveraged their own resources to adapt and thrive under challenging circumstances. Transcr...

01 Mar 2021

  This week we reached a milestone of our 50th Episode on COVID-19 and we take a look back at our predictions what we got right: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) key to mitigation There is no return to normal – we return to something different Testing critical to mitigation Office considerations including for employees, visitors and locations such as break r...

01 Mar 2021

Recently I went to a local Mexican restaurant and grocery store. Before COVID I used to frequent this store and restaurant quite a bit. It is authentic, has delicious meals and excellent vegetables along with items I cannot find in the mainstream grocery stores.  The place is always busy, most of the conversations are in Spanish (the language I wish I had taken in middle and high school ...

22 Feb 2021

  Gregg Masters  00:05 PopHealth Week is brought to you by Health Innovation Media. Health Innovation Media brings your brand messaging alive by original or value added digitally curated content for omni channel distribution and engagement. Connect with us at www.popupstudio.productions. Welcome everyone. I'm Gregg Masters, Managing Director of Health Innovation Media and the ...

18 Feb 2021

  Our weekly question and answer session with Fred Goldstein, Dr. Luis Saldana, and Nick van Terheyden, MD on our COVID Insights to Action Discussion webinar that takes place live every Wednesday at 4pm ET You can register here https://bit.ly/C19QandA​   Fred Goldstein   Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's COVID insights to action discussion group. I'm Fred ...

15 Feb 2021

   This week Fred reviews the latest school recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that released a new Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools to incorporate the best available evidence at this time The evidence suggests that many K-12 schools that have strictly implemented mitigation strategies have been able to safely open for in-person i...

15 Feb 2021

Thinking about employee health insurance renewals and their potential changes given where we are at with the COVID Pandemic can be all across the board, but as the following article describes that many will see big increases: Cost of some employee insurance plans rising as high as 40% It's obviously an important issue and one employers self-funded and fully-insured plans should be cons...

11 Feb 2021

  Gregg Masters  00:08 PopHealth Week is brought to you by Health Innovation Media. Health Innovation Media brings your brand messaging alive by original or value added digitally curated content for omni-channel distribution and engagement. Connect with us at www.popupstudio.productions. Welcome everyone. I'm Gregg Masters, Managing Director of Health Innovation Media and the ...

10 Feb 2021

I had the pleasure this past year of discovering and volunteering with a group, the National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative which was formed by Green Schoolyards America, The Lawrence Hall of Science, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Initiative and Ten Strands. The groups came together to help K-12 schools open during the COVID pandemic by moving activities outdoors. Or...