Population Health

The numbers are up from 2019 Week 1, but there are also more days in this year's snapshot period.

This week's top stories include the Supreme Court appearing favorable to keeping the Affordable Care Act after hearing arguments, Google Cloud unveiling AI tools for analyzing unstructured medical text, and Epic MyChart adding a COVID-19 risk model.

Hospitals are looking for more provider relief funds to fight COVID-19.

Institute for InterGroup Understanding CEO George Halvorson shares why it's imperative to collect and share data to address inequities in care.

Although Medicare won’t pay for monoclonal antibody treatments that providers receive for free, it will reimburse for the infusion. 

Dr. Joe Kvedar, senior advisor of virtual care at Mass General Brigham, discusses the future of virtual care as the population ages and why it is important to design for all.

This allows for the distribution and emergency use of the antibody treatment, administered via intravenous infusion.

These differences could have public health ramifications, as even modest reductions in social contacts can reduce infection and eventual death rates.

Up to 50 million doses could be available globally by the end of the year, with that number climbing to 1.3 billion in 2021.

As part of the new Patient Experience Digital Series, two clinicians explain how a virtual care model is helping more compassionately treat patients in their home communities while improving the provider experience.