HealthLeaders Media January 3, 2023
The pandemic has turned the spotlight on inaccessible, unusable, patient data. It’s time to accept the reality that this is a comorbidity.
Editor’s Note: Paul Markovich is president and CEO of Blue Shield of California.
Nearly three years into the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports more than 1 million lives lost due to COVID-19 in the United States, with the World Health Organization reporting more than 6.6 million deaths globally. Many analysts put the actual number of deaths caused by COVID significantly higher than these numbers and neither estimate captures the potential long-term health effects of COVID.
One of the biggest challenges to preventing and managing illness, including COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, is inaccessible,...