Leveraging Technology as a Response to the COVID Pandemic Adapting Diverse Technologies, Workflow, and Processes to Optimize Integrated Clinical Management

Chapter 1: COVID-19—What We Learned from a Global Health Crisis

Tom Lawry

Chapter 2: COVID-19 Healthcare System Impact and Hospital Response

Paul Frisch

Chapter 3: Hospital at Home: Transformation of an Old Model with Digital Technology

Alisa L. Niksch

Chapter 4: Biomedical Engineering’s Response to Drive COVID-19 Patient Care Solutions: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines

Ashley Jackson and Jennifer Larbi

Chapter 5: Data Management and Analytics to Drive COVID Response

Jim Beinlich

Chapter 6: The Role of Real-Time Location Systems in Ambulatory Care in the Post-Pandemic Era

Mary Jagim and Joanna Wyganowska

Chapter 7: Medical Devices: Responding to a Crisis with 3D Printing, Design, Engineering, and Production

Sam Hellman, Paul Frisch, and Paul Booth

Chapter 8: Combating COVID-19 with Germicial Ultraviolet "C" Light

Arthur Kreitenberg

Chapter 9: Optimizing Infection Control and Hand Hygiene during COVID

Matus Knoblich

Chapter 10: How COVID-19 Catalyzed Community-Driven AI in the Metaverse of Medical Data

Dexter Hadley, Cynthia Kyin, Rachna Sannegowda, Jennifer Nedimyer Horner, Elena Cyrus, and David Metcalf

Chapter 11: Remote Respiratory Care for Rural Asia – Impetus For The World

Chris Landon and Vinay Josh

Chapter 12: High-Throughput Antibody Discovery Comes of Age in Response to COVID-19

Tim Germann

Biography

Paul Frisch is currently an Associate Attending in the Department of Medical Physics and the Chief of Biomedical Engineering at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He currently serves on technical committees and advisory boards including IEEE Counsel on RFID, ECRI Institute and serves as the Chief Technical Officer for the RFID in Healthcare Consortium and President of the Intelligent Health Association. Paul’s responsibility focuses on the investigation of new and evolving technologies and developing their potential integration into clinical applications and operations to enhance patient outcomes, care, and safety. Current areas of investigation focus on clinical 3D imaging and printing, robotics, and medical device development. Previous experiences include research in electromagnetic field induced gene expression in targeted gene therapy, human biodynamics resulting from transitory acceleration, such as crash-impact and aircraft ejection and robotic applications in pharmaceutical development. Paul Frisch has a Doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Ashley Jackson is the Manager of the Health Technology Management group at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She manages a team of over 23 engineers, with varied specialties (Clinical Engineering, Radiological Engineering, Service Coordination, Project Management), responsible for the maintenance and support of more than 27,000 medical devices in a multi-facility institution. Ashley focuses on operationalizing technology-driven hospital initiatives ranging from small implementations of new technologies to large, hospital-wide medical equipment rollouts. She strives to find new and innovative ways to utilize technology to enhance patient care. Ashley is an active member of numerous hospital committees, including the Clinical Device Product Evaluation Committee (CDPEC), Executive Safety Council, and the Alarm Management Committee. As part of the Alarm Management Committee, she has presented at events including but not limited to the Voalte VUE Conference, the Comprehensive Cancer Consortium for Quality Improvement (C4QI), and the 2019 MSKCC Joint Commission Opening Ceremony. Ashley’s holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Wireless Communication and a bachelor’s degree in the same subject. Outside of her work at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Ashley loves to play music. In her free-time, she is typically found with a microphone in hand in front of a guitar or piano. Paul Booth is the Founder of Applied Surgical Robotics, LLC in New York, NY. He is also on the advisory board of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to that he was a section head of Clinical engineering Operations at Josie Roberson Surgery Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He serves on various committees such as the Laser Safety Committee, MRI Safety Committee, Clinical Device and Product Evaluation Committee. He has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications including the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. He also has served as a clinical reviewer for ECRI Health Devices. He also has numerous patent applications pending. Samuel Hellman, Ph.D., Manager of Mechanical Engineering: Dr. Hellman is a mechanical engineer with a background in experimental fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, instrumentation, mechanical design, scientific imaging and optics. In addition to his position at MSKCC, he holds an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte (UNCC). He has experience designing a broad range of mechanical systems and instrumentation for use in research and production environments. These projects span medical, aerospace, manufacturing and energy production sectors with academic, government and industrial collaborations. His personal research has been related to experimental laser-measurement systems for flow-structure interactions.