04 Jan 2021

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Join Luis Saldana, MD, Nick van Terheyden, MD, and Fred Goldstein for this week's COVID Insights to Action Discussion Group.  The topic for the session on January, 6 at 4 pm will include: Mutations - With the recent discovery of mutated forms of the virus in the UK, Africa, and now the US, what are they, what are some of the current thoughts and what might they mean for our approach...
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29 Dec 2020

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The post further below was originally published on October 16, 2017, on Insurance Thought Leadership. I thought with the new administration coming on board and the COVID Pandemic creating further issues in healthcare, I'd revisit the 10 ideas I had originally proposed to fix healthcare. Many of them are more true today than when written. So here's a quick look and you can then read the o...
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21 Dec 2020

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The Vaccines are here. This good news was announced and last week distribution of the Pfizer vaccine began and Moderna's is awaiting an FDA EUA. So as this rolls out what does it mean for employers and their employee health improvement programs? Well to begin there are still many unanswered questions: How long will it take to vaccinate a significant number of people in the US? ...
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16 Dec 2020

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has had employers focus on basic issues like keeping their business operating and keeping employees, customers, and visitors safe. There's been an intense focus through the lens of the virus, how it spreads, and its impact. Solving these issues has required utilizing a population health approach.  A population health framework I like to use is: Identi...
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11 Dec 2020

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During a recent COVID Insights to Action Discussion Group in which Nick asked me to discuss my quarantine experiences as I have documented here previously, Luis Saldana brought up an excellent point.  My quarantine experience is unusual, why?  I have a house with an external door to a room with its own bathroom, I have other bedrooms, bathrooms, resources, and was able to place a microwa...
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10 Dec 2020

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December 9, 2020 This week, Fred Goldstein, Nick van Terheyden, MD, and Luis Saldana, MD discussed the new Quarantine Guidance from the CDC, touched on the vaccines, and answered some questions from the attendees. Transcript Fred Goldstein 00:02 Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's COVID insights. This week we'll be discussing the issue of quarantine with some new guidan...
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30 Nov 2020

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One of the clear risk differentiators for contracting COVID-19 is indoor versus outdoor activities. In fact, the CDC says: Indoor spaces are more risky than outdoor spaces where it might be harder to keep people apart and there’s less ventilation. and, Activities are safer if They are held in outdoor spaces. Indoor spaces with less ventilation where it might be harder to kee...
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