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Data strategies for better decision-making

Indiana Lee Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Data is the most valuable currency in the business world today. Today, it is those businesses that make a practice of collecting and analyzing data to gain intelligent insights that are on the frontier of innovation, efficiency, and success. As an executive or decision-maker, it is thus vital that you understand what effective business intelligence techniques can do for your business, as well as how insights from data can aid you with everything from keeping you up to date with the latest business trends to understanding what specific skills your data employees need to succeed.

Thinking critically about COVID-19, public health, and our erratic response

Keith Carlson Medical & Allied Healthcare

In these days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a great deal of commonly held focus on hobbled supply chains, widespread lack of PPE, the egregiously defunded American public health system, and other ills that negatively impact our ability to mitigate and respond to this existential crisis. While this writer in no way claims to have deep knowledge of healthcare economics and related policy, the obvious fact is that something is wrong when a country largely perceived to be a "global superpower" cannot effectively launch and sustain a concerted, cohesive response to such a threat. Something is indeed amiss, so how can we think critically about this lamentable turn of events?

Making healthy food choices during quarantine

Victoria Fann Food & Beverage

Many of us have become adept at social distancing, washing our hands regularly, sanitizing our groceries and packages, and using Zoom to stay in touch with family and friends. Perhaps many are even making healthy food choices, but given the level of anxiety and uncertainty, I know that lots of people are stress eating and drinking. While sugary, high-carb foods and alcohol may offer a temporary feeling of relief, they wreak havoc on the immune system and over time contribute to feelings of lethargy, brain fog and exhaustion.

Racism amidst the pandemic: 3 Asian Americans’ experiences during…

LeRon L. Barton Mental Healthcare

Through panic and hysteria related to the coronavirus pandemic, racism has reared its ugly head. Because the virus originated from China, Chinese American and other Asian American communities have been experiencing racist, verbal, and physical attacks. Stop AAPI Hate, an online incident report from the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council, states that there have been over 650 reports of discrimination against Asian Americans. Below is an interview with three Asian American women: Annalise, 35, accountant; Vivian, 29, entrepreneur; and Queenie, 32, healthcare worker. They share their experiences on how race has shaped the way we view the pandemic.

Treating COVID-19-related respiratory failure with an anticoagulant: A…

Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

As the novel coronavirus enters lung cells, it starts to replicate, destroying the cells, resulting in the most common complication of COVID-19, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Because of this complication, ventilators have become the single most important piece of equipment in the fight to sustain these patients. A compassionate use trial is currently enrolling COVID-19 patients with ARDS to evaluate both inhaled and intravenous treatment with a common anti-clotting drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating ischemic thrombotic stroke. Researchers have long considered anticoagulants to reduce ARDS-induced death, but the treatment was never adopted or formally approved by the FDA.

Podcast: How to setup and market telehealth services in less than 48 hours

Jarod Carter Healthcare Administration

In this podcast, listen in as I give a detailed class on getting started with telehealth services as quickly as possible. This is a must-listen if you’re interested in using telehealth to get your practice through the coronavirus crisis. This episode is taken from a Q&A coaching call on telehealth services with my Mastermind group.

Chief Elusive Officer: 21% of non-managers have never met their CEO

Terri Williams Business Management, Services & Risk Management

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is usually the most visible person in the organization and is responsible for not only setting strategy and direction, but also for setting and modeling the company's culture. However, it may be hard to rally the troops and set an example when some of the troops don't see the person in charge. According to a recent report by Unit4, a people-based ERP software provider, 21% of employees in non-managerial positions have never met their CEO. Is this a problem, and if so, why?

How to plan for recovery

William D. Pawlucy and Robert C. Harris Association Management

After a devastating weather event neighbors emerge in shock, asking "are you OK?" Recovery starts fast. You hear the chainsaws clearing driveways and streets. Piles of rubble begin to line sidewalks. A weather event comes on fast and ends abruptly. The coronavirus pandemic and severe economic disruptions present significant challenges for associations. The timeline is unknown, as well as the damages to economy, business and associations. Colleagues are asking, "what do we do?"

Are combat-accurate groups good enough? Probably not

Mike Ox Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

There's a continual debate among shooters about whether it's important to be able to shoot precisely with a pistol. I get messages from well-meaning people saying it's silly to shoot tight groups. There are three things that are vital to understand about the importance of being able to shoot tight groups with your defensive weapons.

How COVID-19 affects the school lunch program

Patrick Gleeson Education

In a couple of earlier articles, I wrote about how the coronavirus threatens U.S. education in general. Here, I'd like to concentrate on one particular aspect of the problem: how the coronavirus will make an already highly unequal K-12 education experience even less equal by depriving the neediest students of what may be their only substantial daily meal.

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