Population and Public Health
A new Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Analytics survey found population health and precision medicine among the initiatives where health IT professionals expect AI to have the greatest impact.
Our top takeaways from the Pop Health Forum 2017 in Boston.
Launched to address staff shortages, the program helped speed up discharges to patient homes.
IT-optimized changes created big improvements in chronic care management, hospital executive says.
The Department of Veterans Affairs launched a value management system to bridge the gap between fee-for-service and value-based care.
New York University Langone Medical Center director says enlisting clinical champions and demonstrating value can help great ideas take root.
But HIMSS Analytics director Brendan FitzGerald says you do need a core set of tech tools to get the job done.
At Kaiser Permanente Colorado, "personalized health management" relies on IT savvy, clear operational goals and data that paints the entire health picture.
Keeping physicians engaged is important, but health systems need their technology teams involved from the start, execs say at Pop Health Forum.
Palmetto Health execs say internal challenges made their own rollout a difficult process.