What should come next after the public health emergency?
As the PHE ends this week, Christopher Johnson, president and co-CEO of TeleTracking, which worked with HHS on data collection during the pandemic, offers his views on the transition – and discusses some potential lasting changes to healthcare.
The COVID-19 public health emergency officially ends on Thursday, May 11, and with it comes an array of policy and procedural changes nationwide. How should health IT leaders be thinking about the end of the PHE? After more than three years, what changes will this new era bring to hospitals and health systems? Might new platforms and strategies be needed? Are health system operations overdue for a check-up?
To answer these questions,?Healthcare IT News?sat down with Christopher Johnson, president and co-CEO of TeleTracking, which worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the pandemic on key COVID-19 projects.
TeleTracking is a healthcare operations platform designed to expand the capacity to care by combining comprehensive technologies with clinical expertise to optimize access to care, streamline care delivery and connect transitions of care. It aims to provide interoperability between acute, non-acute, affiliated and non-affiliated facilities.
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