Population and Public Health

The exhibit will focus on coordinating care and transitions across defined populations, a HIMSS official said. 

LogistiCare manages more than 69 million non-emergency medical trips for about 27 million riders annually. The partnership will increase the company's reach, including commercial, Medicare and Medicaid plan members.

Hospital system is rolling out EHR, population health platform, data warehouse and revenue cycle management technologies in consolidation from more than 75 existing applications.

Now that the healthcare industry is essentially digitized, analytics are moving to the fore for population, risk-sharing and value-based care, according to Geneia CTO Fred Rahmanian.

ONC, HRSA, the Defense Health Agency and other government entities will be in the special exhibit on the show floor, where attendees can find educational sessions and resources focusing on government initiatives to advance healthcare. 

Researchers will use big data to eliminate the issues of monitoring infectious diseases on a global level, such as tracking disease elimination campaigns, detecting co-infections and increasing rare disease detection in high-risk populations.

Four Cleveland-based medical researchers - two with the Cleveland Clinic, one with University Hospitals and another from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine - each received seven-year, multi-million dollar awards from the National Institutes of Health.

The partnership aims to provide continuous monitoring to avoid readmissions, erratic clinic visits.

The funding will help integrate PMP data into provider and pharmacist clinical workflow, using NarxCare technology developed by Kentucky-based Appriss, which will connect the state's PMP to provider and pharmacy EHRs.

Jupiter is first community hospital in U.S. to adopt IBM Watson for Oncology.