By April Miller – As the health care industry and modern technology continue to converge, the focus shifts from treating individual patients to managing the well-being of entire communities. Population health management entails analyzing patient data across health information technology resources to make predictions about health issues before they escalate.
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By Laura Young – As healthcare delivery continues to evolve toward a more integrated, person-centered model, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Community Information Exchanges (CIEs) are uniquely positioned to serve as the infrastructure that ties it all together.
By Gil Bashe – This is not a crisis of scarcity. It is a crisis of priorities. The U.S. health system does not consistently organize its clinical, financial, or policy decisions around the shared goal of improving people’s health: their physical and mental well-being.
NOW on-demand, Value-Based Care Insights host Daniel J. Marino speaks with Dr. David Nash and Rick Howard to explores the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in population health. As AI continues to dominate industry conversations and drive vendor offerings, healthcare leaders are faced with questions: What is real, what is hype, and where does the value lie?
By Karla Richardson – Both government and non-government health organizations played a key role in monitoring and predicting the COVID-19 pandemic when it emerged five years ago. They showed how data visualization can aid public health decisions and help experts manage the response.
By David Bennett – Many of the nation’s statewide HIEs have struggled for sustainability since the early 2000s – but not in Nebraska. The Cornhusker State has seen great success with its efforts to connect health systems, physician offices, and public health entities.
By Tracy Okubo & Kenneth Mandl – Because of advances in interoperability, it’s becoming increasingly common for people and their healthcare providers to access and share information from EHRs using apps.
By Summer Humphreys – Patient health hasn’t been the only thing that was hit hard (and continues to feel residual effects) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous reports have shown that healthcare organization revenue also suffered dramatically since mid-March.
By Elizabeth Marshall MD, MBA – It’s been a slow evolution, but Americans have finally begun to appreciate that patient health depends on much more than the healthcare that patients receive, with non-clinical factors such as social determinants of health (SDoH) playing a critical role.