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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


Havard's Future of healthcare is digital
Technological #innovations remain the primary engines of economic growth. Harvard’s Clayton Christensen broadly classified innovations as...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 17, 20212 min read


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


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
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 27, 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


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


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


Epidemiology beyond pandemics
It’s only natural, in the shadows of COVID-19, for Epidemiology to become synonymous with the study and modeling of infectious diseases....

Ozzie Paez
Jul 15, 20211 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 20, 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 19, 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


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


COVID lessons learned: Part 1
Covid’s broadly impacted healthcare systems and their stakeholders. Hospitals were the most critical and hardest hit components on the...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 15, 20211 min read


Improving medical safety with tech
I spent the last month exploring lessons learned during the COVID pandemic. Many were not new. For example, staff safety and the limited...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 6, 20211 min read


Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT)
This post focuses on sensing technologies indispensable to many #AI applications in fields like agriculture, medicine, and #epidemiology....

Ozzie Paez
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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