Population Health

Using the HIMSS Digital Health Index, Missouri is taking evidence about public health agency digital maturity statewide to invest in data-driven population health strategies, says Anne Snowdon, who will share more about the initiative at HIMSS25.

The vendor will be introducing ambient listening and medical scribe technologies, and will showcase artificial intelligence that extracts data from documents in various formats and new population health tools for value-based care.

Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and other healthcare organizations have launched the National Food is Medicine Network of Excellence to share best practices and measure the health outcomes and costs of produce prescription programs.

Spatial intelligence, real-time monitoring and predictive analytics are helping San Francisco fire stations and firefighters lower rates of occupational diseases, says Emilio Goldenhersch, MKThink enterprise director.

Also, a free virtual women's health clinic is being set up in Victoria.

Despite staffing shortages and chaotic work environments, market researchers said increased clinician EHR satisfaction, improved payer/provider relationships and progress on SDOH are advancing healthcare delivery.

How medical algorithms calculate risk to detect chronic disease early.

Over the years, Western Health, one of the largest health services in Victoria, has consolidated 25 different systems into one, says digital health division director Lily Liu.

"Health IT has always been a nonpartisan area for policymakers, so I expect that will largely remain the case," says longtime policy expert Leigh Burchell.

The county will launch Sacramento Health Connect to integrate, share and exchange data across health, criminal justice and social services sectors.