Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic by stakeholders 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.1
Less attention has been devoted to supporting the workforce responsible for incorporating these innovations into care processes. Hick and Biddinger recently wrote that — in the face of high stakes, threats to personal safety, long hours, and emotional duress — “even if we do our best at protection, maintaining an…
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