Population Health

The presence of hospital outcome data on EMS patient care reports in the National Emergency Medical Services Information System database improved in 2024. Data exchange progress is good news for patient care and could ultimately improve health outcomes.

A Florida hospital is leveraging a unique radio frequency identification (RFID) solution to keep track of medications used to support their hospital at home program.

A tour of a lab creating digital health tech to aid brain health – everything from robots to wearables and IOT devices to virtual reality and AI to adaptive robotic pets. Leading the tour: Casey Bennett, health informatics program chair at DePaul University.

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.