By Gregg A. Masters, MPH
‘The debate about whether to provide coverage for healthcare is over…’ Atul Gawande
I had a front row seat for this one at the 5th Annual (and last) ‘Health Datapalooza‘, a label affectionately coined by the former ‘athenista’ though always energetic and singularly determined Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President.
Some pretty amazing insights from this public health sensitized and Harvard trained surgeon who’s simple proscription for checklists in hospital surgical suites has no doubt served the interests of many patients who may have otherwise been subject to an unacceptable pool of recurrent adverse hospital events, see: ‘The Checklist Manifesto’.
