Population and Public Health

External pressures like reimbursement reduction, clinical quality reporting mandates and price transparency rules further underscore the importance of bringing together diverse data sources.

Also, the Korean government is investing $25 million in developing AI for drug discovery.

A prehospital health information exchange in Michigan that provides bidirectional interoperability will bridge ambulatory data gaps and enhance care coordination en route to the hospital and during post-discharge care transitions.

Julie Harris, Children's Health Alliance senior director of population health, explains how giving providers more information at the point of care by tracking 35 key quality measures reduces their burdens in meeting value-based incentive targets.  

This comes as part of its 10-year strategy to improve health outcomes for people living with rare disorders.

Abdulrahman Al Mazyad of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs says the HIMSS C-COMM model provides the ministry with a "technical roadmap" for care coordination across its many facilities.

UpScriptHealth specializes in this approach to virtual care, including for female pelvic health and opioid withdrawal symptoms. Its founder talks about how this form of telehealth can boost outcomes and help fill gaps caused by specialist shortages.

The Korea Health Industry Development Institute's director Kwan-Ik Lee talks about how the institute can help support countries struggling with healthcare digitization and discusses South Korea's two major precision medicine projects.

The initiative is focusing first on extreme heat events to provide timely excessive heat alerts and tailored outreach to at-risk patients.

Stakeholder collaborations have enabled widespread technology integrations in the Korean health ecosystem, says Dr Kyung-Hwan Kim of Seoul National University Hospital.