2023 Public health stories #10

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 10 of 2023.

I.

What’s holding back health IT interoperability in 2023? ONC has some thoughts

Fragmented networks, limited regulator authority and few incentives for downstream care adoption are holding back the nation’s progress on health data sharing, the Biden administration’s health IT office wrote in a recent congressional report.

II.

Opinion piece from NY Times on “How to Prepare for the Next Pandemic

Covid brought out incredible resolve, scientific ingenuity, individual and community perseverance and innovation. But even with that, millions of people died, many millions more were sickened, and societies were terribly set back in the United States and around the world. We are likely to face similar or worse pandemic threats in the future. We need to use the time we have now to make big preparedness changes to protect us from challenges that could arise again without warning.

III.

A unique commentary from Google Health’s leaders on Building a Clinical Team in a Large Technology Company



Bonus: Eight experts debate What if the next pandemic happens tomorrow?

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