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Population and Public Health

Mobile Health IT
By Mike Miliard | 02:57 pm | August 25, 2017
The pharma company also unveiled a new wearable wristband device to let patients track activity levels and monitor heart rate.
Electronic Health Records
By Mike Miliard | 01:40 pm | August 24, 2017
New prompts set into EHR help clinicians think more critically about how they help patients manage pain.
Analytics
By Mike Miliard | 04:20 pm | August 23, 2017
Engaging with different stakeholders and coaching care teams has helped the health system realize a 40 percent improvement in 30-day readmissions.
Accountable Care
By Mike Miliard | 03:11 pm | August 23, 2017
The former national coordinator says addressing social determinants is critical to the success of value-based care and that big infrastructure investment will enable localized approaches to public health.
Mobile Health IT
By Bill Siwicki | 12:53 pm | August 22, 2017
The goal is to improve understanding of the daily challenges patients with MS can have and to uncover new potential measurements of treatment effectiveness through real-time data collection.
Patient Engagement
By Bill Siwicki | 11:42 am | August 22, 2017
Partnership hopes to incorporate genomic data to foster precision medicine, improve care.
Population Health
By Bill Siwicki | 04:36 pm | August 21, 2017
Compass Medical is using a variety of information technologies to enhance care for individuals and populations.
Connected Health
By Mike Miliard | 01:48 pm | August 21, 2017
The telehealth company says group video calls will enable more people to take advantage of the federal program, which outfits patients with Fitbits, wireless scales and a mobile app to keep track of diet.
Analytics
By Mike Miliard | 02:44 pm | August 18, 2017
Big Blue scientists will apply algorithms to spot patterns that could signal ways to delay or prevent juvenile diabetes.
Population Health
By Bill Siwicki | 03:19 pm | August 17, 2017
The behavioral health IT vendor is integrating the terms technology from Wolters Kluwer Health to enhance interoperability and optimize analytics.