The Human Touch — Addressing Health Care’s Workforce Problem amid the Pandemic

Abstract

Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic by stake holders throughout the health care ecosystem are contributing to rapid innovation. To support health care delivery today, capital equipment (such as ventilators) and personal protective equipment (such as masks and gowns) are being redesigned to permit such items to be mass produced while retaining their structural integrity. To shape health care delivery for the future, Covid-19 diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines are being developed "at pandemic speed." Technological solutions for triage, prognostication, and allocation of constrained health system resources (such as intensive care beds) are also being pioneered.Copyright © 2020 Massachusetts Medical Society.