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Ozzie Paez
Feb 8, 20222 min read
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...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 18, 20222 min read
Patients and innovators in healthcare
My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...
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Ozzie Paez
Dec 29, 20213 min read
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...
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Ozzie Paez
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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...
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Ozzie Paez
Oct 29, 20212 min read
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...
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Ozzie Paez
Oct 12, 20211 min read
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...
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Ozzie Paez
Sep 21, 20212 min read
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...
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Ozzie Paez
May 21, 20211 min read
Preparedness and healthcare specs
I’ve spent much of my career helping clients define their needs, expectations, and #requirements in the face of continuous technological...
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Ozzie Paez
May 6, 20211 min read
Coping with mass casualty events
Previous posts in this series dealt with lessons learned after a mass casualty event – 9/11. This one focuses on mounting disasters that...
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Ozzie Paez
Apr 27, 20211 min read
COVID lessons learned: Part 2
My previous post discussed community feedback received after 9/11 on federal plans for improving preparedness. We learned from healthcare...
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Ozzie Paez
Apr 15, 20211 min read
COVID lessons learned: Part 1
Covid’s broadly impacted healthcare systems and their stakeholders. Hospitals were the most critical and hardest hit components on the...
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Ozzie Paez
Apr 7, 20211 min read
Improving medical safety with tech
I spent the last month exploring lessons learned during the COVID pandemic. Many were not new. For example, staff safety and the limited...
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Improving models and predictions
My previous post illustrated modeling through the SIR epidemiological model. This one describes how models are updated based on how well...
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Ozzie Paez
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Modeling Infectious Diseases (SIR)
My last post discussed how #AI, #modeling, and #analytics complement each other and synergistically drive performance and...
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