Choosing the wrong health insurance could kill you
Shutting down the health plans with the highest mortality rates could save thousands of lives per year, according to research by Yale SOM ’s Jason Abaluck.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - September 2, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Three questions about COVID-19 infection and immunity
Yale SOM ’s Dr. Howard Forman talks about herd immunity, vaccines, and a reported case of coronavirus reinfection in Hong Kong.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - August 27, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Smartphone data show how shared staff spread COVID-19 through nursing homes
A new study co-authored by SOM ’s Judith A. Chevalier may explain why visitor bans had little effect in prevention the spread of COVID-19 among nursing homes.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - August 20, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Leading through COVID: lessons from past pandemics
SOM alum Matt Walton, whose emergency management software was used to direct responses to past pandemics, examines the cost of lessons not learned.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - July 22, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

The secret of Connecticut ’s success in battling COVID-19
Yale SOM ’s Edward Kaplan, an operations and modeling expert, discusses what Connecticut has gotten right in tackling the pandemic — and what risks still remain.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - July 1, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Ett europeiskt biomolekylärt forskningscentrum stödjer utvecklingen av behandlingar mot covid-19
När WHO förklarade covid-19 som en global pandemi, tog ett EU-finansierat forskningsprojekt genast sig an utmaningen. BioExcel, ett av Europas ledande centrum för databaserad biomolekylär forskning, gav forskare prioriterad tillgång till dess superdatoranläggningar och banbrytande mjukvara. Det kommer att hjälpa forskare och innovatörer över hela Europa i kampen mot coronaviruset.
Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre - June 29, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

Frontline healthcare providers need proactive mental health care
The effects of the COVID-19 crisis on our health care providers is becoming apparent. Yale SOM experts are urging employers to do more for their workers.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - June 16, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Are Your Quality Assessment and Assurance Documents Safe From Prying Eyes?
Federal regulations require that all skilled nursing facilities must have a functioning Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) program and a Quality Assessment and Assurance (QAA) committee (Medicaid and Medicare Programs; Reform of Requirements for Long Term Care Facilities, Fed Regist 2016;81:68688 –68872; codified at 42 CFR § 483.75, effective November 28, 2017; http://bit.ly/38fnRmx). To help surveyors determine whether nursing facilities are in substantial compliance with the applicable federal regulations, the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services provides guidance in the form of the State Operations Manual (SOM).
Source: Caring for the Ages - May 31, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Alan C. Horowitz Tags: Legal issues Source Type: news

Yale SOM faculty offer a global view on recovering from the pandemic
In an online talk, Amy Wrzesniewski, Lorenzo Caliendo, and James Levinsohn discussed diverging responses to COVID-19 and the need for global cooperation.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - May 8, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Kaplan brings operations research tools to local COVID-19 decision making
Mathematical “scratch models” by SOM Professor Edward Kaplan are informing decisions at the university, at Yale New Haven Hospital, and across Connecticut.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - May 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Leading through COVID: helping the hardest hit
Andrea Levere SOM ’83, president emerita of Prosperity Now, talks about inequality and how we can create more resilient and equitable structures for the future.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - April 27, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Kaleida CEO sees need for hospital bailout over costly COVID-19 battle
Kaleida Healthcare CEO Jody Lomeo sees a parallel between US automakers a decade a ago and hospitals now. The Obama administration engineered a bailout of American automakers in the wake of the 'Great Recession'. Lomeo sees a bailout of the nation's hospitals battling the coronavirus pandemic, as likely. “I would think there’s gonna have to be some reimbursement on some level and we’ve seen som e of that already with the (recent federal) stimulus bill. We’re gonna need support.” In an…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 14, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Steve Brown, Joseph O'Rourke Source Type: news

Responding to COVID-19 in the developing world
Yale SOM development economist Mushfiq Mobarak discusses the limits of social distancing in places like Bangladesh, and how to increase public health awareness.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - April 8, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Projectile wound to head from modified electronic cigarette explosion - Beining T, Thogmartin JR, Kurz W.
One of the dangers of a rapidly growing technology industry is the risk involved in being intimately close to lithium-ion batteries. When exposed to improper conditions, lithium-ion batteries in a variety of devices have been reported to ignite and, in som...
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

What SOM ’s healthcare practitioners are seeing on the front lines
Health professionals in the School of Management ’s M.B.A. for Executives program share their firsthand perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic from the trenches.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - March 24, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

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