News You Can Use – Who Should Boost
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on Healthcare NOW Radio features news from the month of October.
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As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This month we discuss the latest in VOCIV19 booster guidance as we review who should get a booster and who might want to wait. As with all things pandemic related the answer is never straightforward, in fact this is the case with science in general as our understanding continues to evolve. Craig highlights the concerns around LongCOVID disease that continues to impact people.
We break down the different guidance for booster doses for Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccines taking account of the FDA guidance just released and review the risk reared equation from different perspectives.
We review a recently published article Analysis of Electronic Health Record Use and Clinical Productivity and Their Association With Physician Turnover that looked at click data from physicians use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and the challenge this has to individual privacy and why monitoring and tracking of click data is no as innocent as it first appears.
And Craig highlights a term he heard at the HLTH conference:
Minimum Viable Compliance
from the current HHS Health IT Coordinator Micky Tripathi:
Ohhh. @mickytripathi1 talks about not falling into the trap of “minimal viable compliance” with respect to info blocking rules. He implores hospitals and medical groups to not aim for lowest possible information sharing. #HLTH2021 pic.twitter.com/gpxkitgdsm
— Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) October 19, 2021
Unfortunately we expect that term to stick.
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.
