Approaches

Engage stakeholders to identify information needs, data sources, ideas for solutions, and preferred communication channels (clinicians; health system supply chain leaders/managers; public health agencies; manufacturers; elected officials)
Mobilize knowledge, technical expertise, networks, data, and technologies into work streams to identify and develop new tools and resources to inform decisions and actions by stakeholders
Develop prediction models for COVID spread and the subsequent need for hospital care, supplies, public health agency responses, and public policies for containment and mitigation
Collect, aggregate, and forecast information about supply chain burn rates and projected bottlenecks within and across facilities to help anticipate and prevent supply shortages
Augment or create platforms to enable situational awareness for healthcare institutions and enable cooperation and optimization based on resource constraints.
Secure and share ‘real-time’ pragmatic clinical data to identify emerging treatment innovations that may improve patient outcomes
Identify, develop, and support tools and processes to share data, knowledge, and ideas across stakeholder groups in ways that accelerate innovation and adoption of novel treatment and mitigation approaches that help avoid supply shortages and improve patient treatment and outcomes