The Health Assurance Podcast, Episode 3: How Covid-19 Will Change Healthcare

Caroline Savello, CCO of Color, talks about access, infrastructure and changing patient demands

What kind of impact will Covid-19 have on healthcare going forward?

The answer to that question is still being written, but Caroline Savello, chief commercial officer of health assurance company Color, says it will be significant.

“I think probably all of us had so many instances where fundamentally the way you think about healthcare has changed [in the last year],” Savello says in the latest episode of the Health Assurance Podcast.

Savello specifically points to issues that have arisen during the pandemic around access to services, infrastructure, and patient expectations when it comes to delivery of healthcare. “I think what people demand of healthcare is going to change a lot.”

Color is a population and public health infrastructure company that launched several years ago, initially focusing on genomics testing. When the coronavirus hit last spring, the company also threw itself into providing Covid-19 testing, partnering with a number of public health organizations and healthcare providers (including Jefferson Health).

“Having an asset to fight Covid-19, whether it’s a test or a vaccine, is really only as good as the logistical framework you have to get it to patients,” she says as an example of what Color learned in rolling out Covid-19 testing.

In the podcast, Savello also talks about the potentially powerful role genomics will play in healthcare going forward, not just for individuals but particular groups within the population.

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