Population and Public Health

In his first year at the helm of Geisinger Health System, David Feinberg, MD, has continued to hone the longtime population health leader's intense focus on evidence-based care and improved patient experience.

The industry veteran said he envisions a focus on ‘life experience’ in healthcare that delivers precise treatments that are better suited to patients’ specific needs.

Lahey Health, which provides care in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, will tap Quartet's technology-enabled model of mental healthcare to support better patient outcomes and lower costs.

Defense Department is on track to rollout new electronic health records software in the Pacific Northwest later in 2016, and officials are calling the project a new beginning toward interoperable, safe and secure patient records.

Pfizer and IBM are teaming up to combat Parkinson's Disease with analytics and the IoT, the companies announced Thursday.

The Venture Fund challenge will award winners money, mentorship and the opportunity to pilot emerging technologies.   

Healthcare leaders are focused on the potentially conflicting market forces as rising consumer expectations and care transformation are reshaping the industry, according to the Advisory Board Company.  

Price transparency tools can help patients make more educated purchasing decisions. But they must include information on both cost and quality to be effective. 

The company unveiled Cloud Machine Learning for analysis, exploration, processing and storage of large data sets, services that could at some bring deep learning techniques to healthcare and fuel visions like precision medicine and population health. 

Across the healthcare industry, "the state of decision-making is really bad." Following the so-called Three Ps could point a way forward.