Growth Focused Commercial Digital Health Leader | Making Big, Innovative Ideas Actionable | Parent - Patient - Adult Child - Human | #connectedhealth #endsilos
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Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Turns out, seniors spend almost THREE WEEKS a year outside of their home to get healthcare. Think about how burdensome that is for them?! Moreso, 11% of all seniors spend 50 days or more...crazy. When we think about aging in place, this is why care in the home is so critical...
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Talked to a health insurance exec at a brunch this AM. Asked him for some off the record thoughts on working with startups and what he really thought of pilots.
He said “It’s so cute that they think we’re serious. We just do them so our staff doesn’t get bored.”
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
We straight up need more home healthcare solutions.
It can’t be just outdated mom and pops, PE-backed rollups, Optum, Papa, Dispatch, and Signify.
We need smart, yet humble people to prepare for the tidal wave of demand.
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
One of the best comments I heard today: we are in such a strange time in healthcare. We still send faxes but do surgeries using complete robotic functionality. It’s as if Fred Flintstone and George Jetson are trying to live together in the same house 🦖🤖
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Thanks, Ashish. If Florida had California's per-capita death rate, about 11,000 Floridians who have died of Covid would be alive today.
Worth remembering that when you hear the "Florida stayed open and still did well" canard.
Instead, its abrogation of other public health measures
FL banning mask mandates and doing far less testing than CA
Why?
Because FL listening to @gbdeclaration "let it rip" clowns
Which has thus caused enormous, unnecessary suffering and deaths for people of Florida
Fin
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
The vaccinated are currently paying a price for the unvaccinated. #covid19 is surging again, with spillover to the vaccinated. Masks are coming back, because the honor system isn’t working. And our unvaccinated children & immunocompromised are at high risk from the Delta variant.
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Again. Heartbreak. Anger. Hopelessness. How many more will have to die before we do something? I believe most Americans are ready for meaningful action. And have been ready for a long time.
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Meet the panelist of the #WeillDigitalHeath Series 1: #DigitalHealth Innovations
@KBowsher, @PeterFleischut, Jason Novak & Roger Kuan of @haynesboone & Anshu Vaish of Janssen Research & Development
Moderator: Lisa Placanica of @Cornell_CTL
ctl.cornell.edu/meet-the-pan…
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
A year ago, @tomaspueyo blew us away with his the "Hammer and the Dance" metaphor for pandemic control.
His new blog, Variants v. Vaccines, is another superb blend of words & pics, helping us understand the nature of our high-stakes race to save lives. tomaspueyo.substack.com/p/va…
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Oh and also, here’s a collection of 20 pandemic pieces by other people that really resonated with me this year. Thanks to them and all the other incredible journalists who have worked their asses off. May your asses fully regrow in 2021.
getpocket.com/explore/item/e…
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
🎶 He knows when you've been wheezing. He knows when your head aches. He knows if you've put on that mask, so #maskup for goodness sake! 😷 🎅
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Massively controversial issue for which facts should have made it a no-brainer:
2020 edition: wearing a mask
2021: getting vaccinated
Massively controversial issue that is legitimately a tough call & on which reasonable people can disagree:
2020: schools
2021: immunity passports
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Folks often ask "how is CA doing?" There isn't 1 answer.
LA County 12/16: 22,422 cases/138 deaths/4,656 pts in hospital. Test pos. rate ~13%. Deaths in '20: 8,568
SF County 12/16: 242 cases/0 deaths/150 in hospital. Test pos. rate ~4%. 2020 Deaths: 172
LA is 11x larger than SF
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
She..always..understood the value of data & models. Indeed, rigorous thinking becomes more, not less important in crazy times like these, when past experience offers little guidance about what we should be doing. But she also never forgot that economics is about people.
“It’s immensely reassuring to know that economic policy will be made by someone who knows what she is doing,” writes @PaulKrugman of Janet Yellen nyti.ms/3lcZEDX
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
In Nov. 2008, it took about two hours for GSA to determine that Obama was the winner. What's happening now isn't normal - and it ultimately hurts the American people. From my discussion with @brikeilarcnn on @CNN
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Wow….stunning economic cost. This sure justifies making as much testing as we need and vaccines free so we can go focus on re-creating jobs and GDP.
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
No nation has a vaccine -- the difference btwn the high US death rate vs others' low #covid19 spread & ability to reopen is the implementation of public health policies, which this Admin. has failed to do.
Always great to discuss health care w/ @ASlavitt:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
Cases and hospitalizations are rising across the US
And I’m getting asked repeatedly whether we're heading toward lockdowns
Short answer – no – not if we are smart
Long answer? Its complicated
So let’s talk about lockdowns – and how we get through next few months
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Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
When I saw "Secret Service" trending & read first tweet on Trump's joy ride around Walter Reed, I thought, "This has got to be a joke." But nope, it's real. So massively irresponsible.
And another reason to question whether he is capable of making sound decisions at this time.
Kathryn Bowsher retweeted
I’ve seen enough Republican senators test positive to tweet this photo.
@SenatorWicker — because you refused to wear a mask on our @Delta flight last night, please let your fellow passengers know your status once you’ve been tested.
