News You Can Use – The Failure of Public Health
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on Healthcare NOW Radio features news from the month of July 2022.
As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We discuss my joining the growing number of people who have succumbed to COVID and the challenge of enduring the symptoms that were significant and lasted well over a week for me personally.
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I describe my personal experience and the crushing level of fatigue and inability to do much of anything, which included going out to obtain Plaxovid to reduce the severity and extent of the disease in my case spending a number of days exhausted and in bed. I detail the diagnostic process and the continued challenge we have in this country of providing any realistic tracking data of the incidence of the disease given the lack of public health capabilities despite all of our experience we should have learned from the pandemic over the last 2 or more years. Long COVID continues to trouble many and remains a concern while we try to understand why this occurs in some and not others and what can be done to help mitigate the symptoms.
We discuss the growing concern and incidence of Money Pox and while clinically we have some established pathways to treating and controlling this disease thanks to the failure of our public health institutions this disease continue to cause concern.
Listen in to hear us discuss the recently published study Assessing the Clinical Robustness of Digital Health Startups: Cross-sectional Observational Analysis reviewing digital health companies and how they perform as measured with a single clinical robustness score.
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About the Show
For years Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick, has served as a voice on the impact of new technologies on healthcare, earning a reputation as a leading authority on where the future of medicine is going. Combining powers of observation and real world experience, Dr. Nick has seen many predictions come true and makes the case that innovations in healthcare can be accomplished incrementally, not just by moonshot events. Tune in to hear Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist and his guests discuss what the future of healthcare looks like, how we will get there, and what it will take to improve healthcare for all.
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.
