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Putin's nuclear bluffs
Mr. Putin is playing the nuclear card. It’s a reflection of Russia’s economic limitations and its history. In this context, hindsight...

Ozzie Paez
Feb 28, 20222 min read
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Hospitals struggling with COVID spikes
The daily drumroll of hospitals, health systems, cities, and states struggling to cope with COVID spikes continues. We don’t yet know how...

Ozzie Paez
Feb 8, 20222 min read
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Quantifying health and healthcare
The heart of digital transformation is quantification or more specifically the capacity to continuously measure (sample) processes,...

Ozzie Paez
Jan 29, 20222 min read
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Patients and innovators in healthcare
My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...

Ozzie Paez
Jan 18, 20222 min read
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The patient's side of health monitoring
This post is the second in a series. It describes a health event experienced by an OPR researcher. He was using two wearable monitoring...

Ozzie Paez
Jan 6, 20222 min read
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Patients driving healthcare innovation
Discussions of innovative medical technologies such as BioBeat’s remote patient monitoring system are usually framed from the...

Ozzie Paez
Jan 6, 20222 min read
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Covid's staggering indirect human costs
It will take years for epidemiologists and medical researchers to tallie the human costs of the Covid pandemic. The easiest will be the...

Ozzie Paez
Dec 29, 20213 min read
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The risks of dying after leaving hospital
Reducing the risks of patients unexpectedly deteriorating and dying after being released from hospital is a growing concern. Thankfully,...

Ozzie Paez
Dec 28, 20212 min read
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Barriers to healthcare innovation
Replacing legacy medical equipment with innovative new technologies is challenging because in healthcare there is little room for error....

Ozzie Paez
Dec 10, 20212 min read
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Harvard Digital Health Wrap-Up
Harvard’s last Digital Health cohort of 2021 wrapped December 4th. There were 191 participants from across the world. This was one of the...

Ozzie Paez
Dec 9, 20211 min read
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Havard's Future of healthcare is digital
Technological #innovations remain the primary engines of economic growth. Harvard’s Clayton Christensen broadly classified innovations as...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 17, 20212 min read
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Is medicine turning Gold into Lead?
An astonishing 90%+ of Americans believe that yearly #physicals and doctor visits are a good idea. It’s a marketing coup and an...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 17, 20212 min read
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Remote Patient Monitoring: challenges and opportunities
All technologies introduce controversies and disruptive technologies can kick up a storm. My colleagues and I have experienced these...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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Healthcare, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring
I've been researching, evaluating, and writing about physiological monitors and patient monitoring for years. Remote patient monitoring...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 4, 20211 min read
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Nursing shortage at NoCo's Healthcare Summit
Northern Colorado’s Healthcare Summit brought home the looming catastrophe of nursing shortages across the country. Reports suggest that...

Ozzie Paez
Oct 29, 20212 min read
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How hospitals can cope with peak demands
Hospitals operating at capacity during peak demands for services adjust admission and discharge benchmarks to focus on the most severely...

Ozzie Paez
Oct 28, 20212 min read
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New technologies help hospitals cope
Hospitals facing high demands and limited bed space are sending Covid patients home earlier than they’d prefer. It’s a classic response...

Ozzie Paez
Oct 12, 20211 min read
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Hospitals at full capacity
An aggravated injury led me to the ER this weekend – a rare event. It was also an opportunity to observe and ask about conditions at...

Ozzie Paez
Sep 21, 20212 min read
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Healthcare lessons beyond healthcare
Healthcare systems need to look beyond healthcare for lessons and solutions to meet the current and future crisis.

Ozzie Paez
Jul 23, 20211 min read
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Operational Elasticity
The COVID crisis tested healthcare’s robustness (the capacity to take a punch) and agility (the ability to adapt). Many hospitals...

Ozzie Paez
Jul 22, 20212 min read
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