Bill Siwicki

Convene every stakeholder. Identify cross-department linkages. Understand patient sub-populations. Don’t forget long-term care and behavioral health. And hold ACOs accountable.

As part of a population health program, telemedicine technology requires new assumptions and strategies as well as technology, clinicians and finance all working together, Palmetto chief value and informatics officer Tripp Jennings says.

By changing the way it previously treated the majority of patients, the hospital can help prevent many of them from moving into the most expensive cohort, senior director Kamal Jethwani said.

The upcoming HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Pop Health Forum features 34 speakers who will address the complexities of population health as hospitals move toward value-based care.

The latest draft would phase out Medicaid expansion for low-income adults and convert to block grants for the states.

The security, analytics and cloud infrastructure vendor has launched Active Insights, which aims to provide healthcare organizations with a secure, integrated approach to managing medical devices.

The platform enables oncologists to identify evidence-based treatment regimens for patients through integration of NantHealth’s eviti platform and Allscripts’ Sunrise EHR.

The research and consulting firm offers healthcare organizations cybersecurity guidance as 2017 shapes up to be an uncertain year.

With Lumeon’s functionality to automate the care pathway, previously manual tasks are eliminated and Digital Noema can ensure reimbursable elements are consistently used, the vendors say.

The new software-as-a-service application connects referring physicians to registered imaging provider order lists, bringing clarity to proper exam selection and reimbursement coding, the vendor says.