63 - COVIDCast #14 - Rolling Out COVID Watch to Monitor Patients At Home

his episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and finished our interview with Dr. Kirstin Knox and Dr. Anna Morgan. In part 2 we discuss the COVIDWatch program which uses SMS to check in on and triage patients who are awaiting testing results, or who are COVID-positive and at risk of suffering from more serious symptoms while they are self-isolating at home. We go into some of the challenges of implementing the program, and how patients have been responding. We hope you enjoy the rest of our conversation with Dr. Knox and Dr. Morgan. Footnotes Dr. Kirstin Knox https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8338155 Dr. Anna Morgan https://www.pennmedicine.org/providers/profile/anna-morgan COVIDWatch https://covidwatch.waytohealth.org/