Population and Public Health

Large public HIE connects with InterSystems to private health system networks for more comprehensive patient data sharing.

If there’s one point a recent session at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute & Expo 2017 brought home, it’s that if providers and payers are going to manage their members as a population, they need to start by knowing them individually.

Single-vendor? Self-developed? Build-and-buy? Chilmark Research profiles the various IT choices of Trenton Health Team, Marshfield Clinic and Partners HealthCare.

The program gave a glimpse into the possibility of hospitals using drones in the future.

The software enables doctors and family members to track and share data about pediatric patients to inform care decisions.

In addition, the industry must ensure better access to broadband to make telehealth a reality for underserved areas.

While doctors want to know everything they can, public health is far more cautionary when it comes to screenings.

This new module gives providers key health data, reminders and trends.

A wave of consolidation is coming, industry analysts say, and leading electronic health records platforms will emerge as more appealing to hospitals than standalone options.

Getting meaningful use and even CMS out of the way will pave the road for hospitals to find innovative new business models that are quickly becoming critical to the grand vision, hospital CIO, consultant say.