My call to public health came shortly after I finished my bachelor’s degree. I was planning to become a doctor, so I was busy preparing to apply to medical school — studying for the MCAT, working at a local hospital and shadowing a primary care physician.
Data evaluations can be extremely motivating. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began reporting on the opioid epidemic, health care providers and the public were shocked and saddened by the numbers of people across the country who were being harmed by opioid misuse.
Change is in the air. Even as we formally launched our new company earlier this month, our Comagine Health team was hard at work on a fundamental reimagining of the work we do for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Twenty years ago, psychologist Daniel J. Simons created the now-classic “gorilla experiment” video.
This designation allows NQIICs to bid on Task Orders over the next five years.
Health care delivery systems in the United States, like many other institutions, have not yet realized equitable outcomes — or even equity — in the processes of delivery or payment of care, but for my entire career I’ve witnessed valiant efforts to those ends.
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Five years ago, I had a family member struggling with depression. The medication they had been taking wasn’t effective anymore. They visited their primary care provider, who said they should see a psychiatrist and handed over a piece of paper with four names and phone numbers.
When people with complex medical and social needs have little support or resources, they may rely on emergency service providers for nonemergent care and even companionship.
When I work with clinics on quality improvement projects, it is sometimes difficult to engage teams in the work. They agree that improving the quality of care they provide to their patients is important, but they lack confidence in the data being used to monitor their improvements.
