Modern Healthcare June 5, 2020
Contact tracing bears a strong resemblance to programs aimed at improving community health. With states hiring temporary contact tracers, lawmakers should consider expanding the program to carry out both tasks.
Contact tracing involves interviewing every new COVID-19 patient and reaching out to everyone they’ve recently contacted so those people can be tested and possibly quarantined. To be successful, tracing programs also need to provide food and social service support for the people asked to stay isolated indoors. All this must be done in a supportive—not coercive—manner.
How different is that from population health management programs that canvas communities for people with undiagnosed chronic conditions like hypertension, asthma and diabetes? The goal there is to get people treatment and address the...
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