Transcript
Announcer:
You’re listening to Clinician’s Roundtable on ReachMD. On this episode, we’ll hear from Dr. Darilyn Moyer, who’s the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Physicians. She’ll be discussing how we can strengthen infectious disease preparedness through data and collaboration. Here’s Dr. Moyer now.
Dr. Moyer:
We really need people to sit down and talk to each other in a meaningful way so that we can work together in a much more aligned, synergistic way because infectious diseases don't look to state and country boundaries. And the globalization of our world certainly makes it possible for easy spread everywhere.
We need to have these crucial conversations. There should be an impetus to get those scientists doing the basic science and people doing the translational science into the clinical world sitting down with the folks looking at the clinical application and the clinical impact, and then taking the folks doing the public health modeling and understanding what this translates to and looks like in our communities, and getting them together to ensure that we are all speaking with one voice to the public. This did not happen enough during COVID-19, and we really do need a model for this. We need to ensure that people are walking in lockstep here.
How do you ensure alignment? The first thing comes with the basics of building in the systems that actually have good cross-communication. The first thing is we need to have seamless APIs and integration of the data. We need to ensure the veracity of the data. We need to be sharing the data seamlessly amongst everyone. We still have to call other health systems in our cities to fax over patient records because we're still not fully integrated. So, it really starts with the fundamentals of ensuring that we are all connected with the data, that the data is accurate, and we've ensured the veracity of the data to begin with.
Then, we need to make sure that we have foundationally the governance structure, et cetera, and it flows from there. When you've seen one community, you've seen one community, and this is where decisions for one community may not be the right decisions for another community. But if you're following from a set of foundational principles that everyone has agreed to from a centralized perspective, you have that ability to customize based on what is going on in your community, and you're all sharing accurate data, I think you're in a much better place.
Announcer:
That was Dr. Darilyn Moyer discussing a collaborative approach to infectious disease preparedness. To access this and other episodes in our series, visit Clinician’s Roundtable on ReachMD.com, where you can Be Part of the Knowledge. Thanks for listening!
