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Take Five Interview with Allison Cerco
Allison Cerco serves on Asbury Park’s Mayors Wellness Campaign committee and is a Community Outreach Manager for Hackensack Meridian Health. She was awarded the Mayors Wellness Campaign 2020 Champion of Health award. The Mayors Wellness Campaign is a program of the Quality Institute in partnership with the New Jersey State League of Municipalities. You…Read More…
Advancing the Future of Telemedicine — For Everyone
One incredible lesson from the pandemic is how quickly a mode of care, such as telehealth, can be adopted and widely used by so many people in innovative ways. That said, as we heard from each of the speakers at our virtual All-Council Conference yesterday, sustaining and delivering high quality equitable telehealth will take more…Read More…
Primary Care: An Essential Part of the Common Good
Free, compulsory education became the law of the land in the early 19th century, and today few would question its value. Access for all children to public schools is now an ingrained, essential common good and public right supported by government and taxpayers at all levels. Today, a group of researchers, physicians, and…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Claudia Tucker
Claudia Tucker is Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy at Teladoc Health. Teladoc Health is a member of the Quality Institute’s Professional & Technology Council. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the use of telehealth increase substantially. But access was not equal. What does digital health equality mean to you? Let…Read More…
Crafting the Future of Telehealth
Telehealth has emerged as an essential strategy to provide patients with many types of care, including remote monitoring for home-based care and remote participation in clinical trials. The exponential rise in telehealth is challenging to even calculate. According to the Fair Health Tracker, billing for telehealth services for a year during the pandemic increased more…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Kate Shamszad
Kate Shamszad, MS, MPH, Director of the Medicaid Policy Center, a program of the Quality Institute. As the new Director of the Medicaid Policy Center (MPC), what are your short and long-term priorities for the program? It’s been a really busy last year with the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Maintaining high…Read More…
In the Wake of the Pandemic, Opportunities Exist
Just over 100 years ago, an especially virulent influenza ignited a cataclysmic pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million to 100 million people around the world. The pandemic of 1918 also ushered in new ways of understanding and delivering health care. Advances that followed the pandemic included a national disease reporting system, employer-based health insurance,…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Nicholas Blanck
Nicholas Blanck, CRNA MSN, APN-Anesthesia, is the Executive Director of Legislative Affairs for the New Jersey Association of Nurse Anesthetists (NJANA), a member of the Quality Institute’s Association Council. Managing the pain and comfort of patients going into surgery can be challenging, especially during this pandemic. How does a nurse anesthetist ease this stress?…Read More…