Population and Public Health

If you are a healthcare payer or provider with a compelling pop health management story to share, don’t keep it to yourself.

Liquid biopsies, opioid addiction biosensors and AI top ECRI's annual list of technologies that will transform the healthcare industry in the year ahead.

Emerging models, such as value-based care, cannot adequately move forward without factoring in the role social determinants of health play. 

The organization said it will implement HealtheIntent across six hospitals. 

The new iteration will bring integration with Cisco and Avaya, a single app including various communications tools and clinical workflow features. 

The firm also found that tech illiteracy is the next roadblock to achieving population health success.

Session ideas should focus on the cornerstones of population health: data and analytics, care coordination, patient engagement and experience and reimbursement.

The hospital and health information exchange leverage predictive analytics to create personalized care regimens that payoff by reducing readmissions and boosting patient outcomes. 

The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute has unveiled a new effort to understand how type 2 diabetes varies from patient to patient. With access to data on more than 800,000 diabetics, researchers see it as a big step toward new treatments and improved diagnostic tools.

The organizations intend to apply Watson supercomputing capabilities to analyze EHR and claims data alongside social determinants of health to fuel personalized care and population management.