Ozzie Paez
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....
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"The most dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers will naturally make better, more objective decisions. Making consistently timely, effective, informed decisions takes hard work. Trust me – it’s worth it. Effective decision-making is the essential common ingredient behind every successful step, initiative, and strategy that people, organizations, and national governments undertake."
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Ozzie Paez
- Feb 8, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 29, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Nov 4, 2021
- 1 min
Healthcare, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring
I've been researching, evaluating, and writing about physiological monitors and patient monitoring for years. Remote patient monitoring...
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Ozzie Paez
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Oct 28, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Sep 21, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 23, 2021
- 1 min
Healthcare lessons beyond healthcare
Healthcare systems need to look beyond healthcare for lessons and solutions to meet the current and future crisis.
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Ozzie Paez
- May 21, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Research: Tech and catastrophes
Healthcare, Public Health, and Emergency Services endured unprecedented challenges coping with #covid19. The pandemic’s impacts on the...
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Ozzie Paez
- May 6, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 4, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Ozzie Paez
- Feb 18, 2021
- 1 min
Modeling Infectious Diseases (SIR)
My last post discussed how #AI, #modeling, and #analytics complement each other and synergistically drive performance and...
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Ozzie Paez
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdowns are killing supply chains
It’s been frustrating helping business and political leaders understand the unplanned consequences of economic lockdowns.
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Ozzie Paez
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
The future of medicines
COVID-19 is helping illuminate how our genetic makeup affects our response to viruses, medicines, and therapies.
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min
Prepare for 2021
Sometimes conditions beyond their control leave business leaders with few good choices...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
Restarting the economy: a long process
There are clear disconnects between politics, business, and the realities of reopening the economy.
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Ozzie Paez
- Jun 29, 2020
- 1 min
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.
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