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Are Patients Customers or End Users?
Many doctors reject framing patients as customers and yet no industry exists without customers to buy their products and services. Most...

Ozzie Paez
Jul 202 min read


Improving patient engagement with Biobeat's 24BP
This week I will discuss how the Covid pandemic and innovative new technologies are affecting hypertension control programs and patient...

Ozzie Paez
Jun 16, 20222 min read


Using Use-cases to innovate
I mentioned use-cases in a recent post on technology and innovations in medicine. It’s an important topic because use-cases are the most...

Ozzie Paez
May 17, 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...

Ozzie Paez
Feb 8, 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...

Ozzie Paez
Jan 18, 20222 min read


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


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


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


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
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


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
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


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


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


Saving lives in future emergencies
I authored this story several years ago based on 20+ years evaluating innovative health technologies, with input from health tech leaders...

Ozzie Paez
Jul 19, 20216 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...

Ozzie Paez
May 21, 20211 min read


Research: Tech and catastrophes
Healthcare, Public Health, and Emergency Services endured unprecedented challenges coping with #covid19. The pandemic’s impacts on the...

Ozzie Paez
May 20, 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...

Ozzie Paez
May 6, 20211 min read


AI's indispensable enablers
Artificial intelligence is most effective when complemented with other technologies, particularly modeling and analytics. These are...

Ozzie Paez
Feb 9, 20211 min read


Lockdowns are killing supply chains
It’s been frustrating helping business and political leaders understand the unplanned consequences of economic lockdowns.

Ozzie Paez
Aug 17, 20201 min read
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