Population and Public Health
The guidance aims to help countries move toward healthcare digitization through a person-centered point of service system.
In discussing social determinants of health data utilization, Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia, describes how analytics and patient engagement tools are streamlining workflows and helping providers respond to more patients in need.
The expectation is for a new Congress to create policy around AI and cybersecurity, says Tom Leary of HIMSS.
Everett Wilson, healthcare regulatory attorney with Polsinelli, says benefit increases to MA, piled onto increased consumer expectations, are squeezing insurers' bottom lines, and that affects providers with risk-based arrangements in particular.
New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says.
The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many over the devices' notoriously higher rates of error for people with darker skin.
Yiannos Tolias of the European Commission's DG Sante discusses how the European Health Data Space (EHDS) will help developers access data to train healthcare AI applications that will benefit the EU's entire population.
Subsyndromal depression is said to be five times more common than clinical depression among Singaporean seniors.
Asan Medical Center continues to digitalise beyond the hospital confines by developing cloud APIs that connect with smaller hospitals, IT strategy team lead Wongu Yi explains.
Also: New studies find commercial artificial intelligence algorithms developed for breast cancer detection may identify women at high risk of future malignancy – up to six years ahead of occurrence.