Data Bytes by Arcadia

Healthcare’s post-pandemic reality is a strained and exhausted system. It’s facing an uphill battle to provide high quality care as more and more challenges arise including inflation and a winter “tripledemic” of COVID-19, flu, and RSV that threatens to overwhelm hospitals and burnt out physicians.

While mortality and transmission rates of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) far exceeds those of the 2017–2018 flu, a look backwards can still be instructive. Especially as we prepare for a potential resurgence of influenza this year.

Unhoused populations experience not only a significantly higher prevalence of chronic illness, but also an increase in costs of care. Every month we share new perspectives into how data drives innovation in healthcare.

We look at the cost of care: the technology has gotten better and yet the number of people with chronic illness grows, and costs go up.

Unhoused populations experience not only a significantly higher prevalence of chronic illness, but also an increase in costs of care. Every month we share new perspectives into how data drives innovation in healthcare.