Population and Public Health

Vynca, PIC-SURE and Information Softworks emerge from a crowded field with new strategies for probabilistic record matching.

Population health management encompasses the proactive application of strategies and interventions to defined groups of individuals, with the goal of improving the quality of care and outcomes whilst managing costs. Along with staff engagement this is the Quadruple Aim of health.

Informatics group aims to make patients' online access to physicians' clinical notes the standard of care.

Helping customers glean more insights from radiological images can also advance precision medicine and population health efforts, the company said.

Plenty of people have speculated that all the back-and-forth concerning repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act was causing hospitals to tighten their IT budgets and new research has determined that, at least when it comes to population health management spending, they may have been right.

After acquiring McKesson’s EHR business, Allscripts pledges to invest in integration, innovation and interoperability for better population health management.

President Zane Burke also hinted that the EHR company may invest in AI in the near future.

Researchers from MIT and Harvard's Broad Institute have found a way to switch out individual nucleotide letters, allowing a more efficient and cleaner solution to fixing point mutations.

Healthcare organizations should break down data into smaller sets that can be used to build into larger programs, experts say.

UMass Memorial exec says getting providers on board is a good first step, but workflow adjustments, a data-driven culture and coordination with community resources will deliver results.