Population and Public Health

The Colorado network’s South Denver unit is giving patients an app for house calls and assigning care coordinators to help navigate the system. And it’s already seeing Triple Aim results. 

Miriam Paramore interviewed Young as part of a series on Women in Health IT that she has titled “Women Who Get IT." In this inaugural interview, Paramore talks with Young not only about the work itself but also about work-life balance.

Government guidance and best practices will only get hospitals so far. Both value-based care and population health require a stronger-than-ever orientation toward teamwork and that includes patients as well as communities.

Participants include volunteers at three sites within the United States, including the NIH Clinical Center in Maryland.

Using real-time data from its provider customers, athenahealth has identified more than 5,000 Florida patients currently at-risk of becoming infected by the Zika virus, the company announced today.

Premier Inc. is joining forces with America's Essential Hospitals, which champions care for vulnerable populations, in a bid to improve quality, cost and population health at essential hospitals.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden, MD said that Florida has aggressively sprayed mosquitos to control Zika and that the CDC is ready to deploy to the area if need be.

The Florida Department of Health said the transmissions may be happening in one square mile area in Miami.

Cancer treatments, drug discovery, genome sequencing, president Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, are all driving big spending for personalized and precision medicine. 

Only 102 hospitals of 3,617 hospitals received the top rating of five stars.