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Continuous in-hospital patient monitoring
A colleague approached me in late 2019 with a request to evaluate Biobeat’s medical technologies and remote patient monitoring solutions....

Ozzie Paez
Jul 25, 20222 min read
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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
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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...

Ozzie Paez
Dec 29, 20213 min read
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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...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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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 3, 20211 min read
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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
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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 27, 20212 min read
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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...

Ozzie Paez
Sep 20, 20212 min read
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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
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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 20, 20211 min read
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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 19, 20211 min read
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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
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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...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 26, 20211 min read
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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...

Ozzie Paez
Mar 4, 20211 min read
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Modeling Infectious Diseases (SIR)
My last post discussed how #AI, #modeling, and #analytics complement each other and synergistically drive performance and...

Ozzie Paez
Feb 18, 20211 min read
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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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The future of medicines
COVID-19 is helping illuminate how our genetic makeup affects our response to viruses, medicines, and therapies.

Ozzie Paez
Aug 1, 20201 min read
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Prepare for 2021
Sometimes conditions beyond their control leave business leaders with few good choices...

Ozzie Paez
Jul 21, 20201 min read
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Restarting the economy: a long process
There are clear disconnects between politics, business, and the realities of reopening the economy.

Ozzie Paez
Jul 1, 20201 min read
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Safe and out of business is no business
...regaining and delivering sustainable profitability is your top concern. Safely, yes, but safe and out of business is no business at all.

Ozzie Paez
Jun 29, 20201 min read
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