Becker's Healthcare March 26, 2020
Jackie Drees

Despite mass efforts of clinicians and other healthcare professionals in Massachusetts treating COVID-19 patients, the state now faces a potentially critical overwhelming of its hospital and ambulatory structure by sometime in April, according to healthcare leaders in the state.

Current and former healthcare executives penned a March 25 op-ed in the Boston Globe detailing the COVID-19 predicament, and why the state must rapidly use public and private assets to launch a comprehensive, tech-based program that can triage and safely support COVID-19 patients at home or in community-based venues.

The authors outlined three imperatives the program must address: support patients at home and in other venues mobilized by the state, provide some degree of respiratory and other essential medical support to...

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