Population and Public Health

An innovative tele-ICU helps Advocate Health Care physicians and nurses deliver evidence-based medicine while simultaneously lowering healthcare costs.

The initiative has been so successful that plans are underway to expand it into more hospitals.

The partners will develop a comprehensive diabetes platform and combine software, devices, medicine and professional care to improve diabetes management for patients.

The deal marks the first testing collaboration for Intermountain Precision Genomics outside of the U.S.

Leaders today may be chasing after exciting new systems to enable population health, but they must be thinking differently to succeed, CitiusTech Vice President Jeffrey Springer said at the Pop Health Forum 2016 in Chicago. 

Healthcare organizations need tools for analytics, care coordination, telehealth – and patient engagement. And those must be integrated to arm doctors with data and insights they can use to focus on the art of medicine. 

Hospitals are collecting mountains of data they can use to advance patient care. But among the thorniest problems they collectively face is being able to put that data to work within existing confines of today’s healthcare systems. 

The technology leverages the company’s 175 million patient-record years and a patient’s medical history to predict the patient’s future health.

Predictive analytics, powered by Intel and Cloudera technology, enabled a hospital to reduce readmissions rates.

The HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Pop Health Forum starts Monday morning. Here’s a roundup of articles about the event. We'll be reporting live and continue adding to it so check back often.