Population and Public Health

In an interview with Bloomberg, the president hinted at his potential post-White House plans.

At the Cancer Moonshot Summit in Washington on June 29, Biden announced a long list of federal and health industry initiatives meant to harness technological and clinical advances to make significant headway in the fight against the disease.

Intermountain Healthcare, Stanford Cancer Institute, Providence Health & Services, Catholic Health Initiative and Henry Ford Health System have joined with precision medicine company Syapse for OPeN, the Oncology Precision Network.

The effort will help doctors boost access to precision medicine for 10,000 VA veterans with cancer.

Solving today’s evolved patient needs will require many key ingredients. Jump into this Healthcare Perspectives to learn about value-based metrics for reimbursement and complimentary HIMSS value-based resources.

3M Health Information Systems has added another physician workflow and analytics tool to its 360 Encompass MD repertoire with its newest tool: Patient Insights Suite. It was announced today at HFMA ANI in Las Vegas.

The physician practice association offered recommendations for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System and Alternative Payment Models proposed by MACRA – including a reduction of reporting requirements across MIPS.

The hospital and technology incubator are jointly working on a population health tool, to debut next year, that will tie together disparate data sets and resources designed to advance individual and community health. 

Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center have begun recruiting volunteers to participate in a clinical trial that will decode the immune system through the immunome – the genetic backbone of the immune system.

Google, the world's most used search engine, is partnering with two of the world's leading health organizations to take the confusion out of symptom searching.