The first COVID-19 case in the US was reported on January 20 2020. As the first cases were being reported in the US Washington State became a reliable source not just for hospital bed demand based on incidence and community spread but also for modeling the impact of skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities on hospital bed demand. Various hospital bed demand modeling efforts began in earnest across the United States in university settings private consulting and health systems. Nationally the University of Washington Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation seemed to gain a footing and was adopted as a source for many states for its ability to predict the epidemiological curve by state including the peak. This book therefore addresses a compelling need for documenting what has been learned by the academic and professional healthcare communities in healthcare analytics and disaster preparedness to this point in the pandemic. What is clear at least from the US perspective is that the healthcare system was unprepared and uncoordinated from an analytics perspective. Learning from this experience will only better prepare all healthcare systems and leaders for future crisis. Both prospectively from a modeling perspective and retrospectively from a root cause analysis perspective analytics provide clarity and help explain causation and data relationships. A more structured approach to teaching healthcare analytics to students using the pandemic and the rich dataset that has been developed provides a ready-made case study from which to learn and inform disaster planning and preparedness. The pandemic has strained the healthcare and public health systems. Researchers and practitioners must learn from this crisis to better prepare our processes for future pandemics at minimum. Finally government officials and policy makers can use this data to decide how best to assist the healthcare and public health systems in crisis. | Healthcare Analytics Emergency Preparedness for COVID-19
The first COVID-19 case in the US was reported on January 20 2020. As the first cases were being reported in the US Washington State became a reliable source not just for hospital bed demand based on incidence and community spread but also for modeling the impact of skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities on hospital bed demand. Various hospital bed demand modeling efforts began in earnest across the United States in university settings private consulting and health systems. Nationally the University of Washington Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation seemed to gain a footing and was adopted as a source for many states for its ability to predict the epidemiological curve by state including the peak. This book therefore addresses a compelling need for documenting what has been learned by the academic and professional healthcare communities in healthcare analytics and disaster preparedness to this point in the pandemic. What is clear at least from the US perspective is that the healthcare system was unprepared and uncoordinated from an analytics perspective. Learning from this experience will only better prepare all healthcare systems and leaders for future crisis. Both prospectively from a modeling perspective and retrospectively from a root cause analysis perspective analytics provide clarity and help explain causation and data relationships. A more structured approach to teaching healthcare analytics to students using the pandemic and the rich dataset that has been developed provides a ready-made case study from which to learn and inform disaster planning and preparedness. The pandemic has strained the healthcare and public health systems. Researchers and practitioners must learn from this crisis to better prepare our processes for future pandemics at minimum. Finally government officials and policy makers can use this data to decide how best to assist the healthcare and public health systems in crisis. | Healthcare Analytics Emergency Preparedness for COVID-19
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