Population Health

More than 20 people showed up in person to testify in favor of the bill at a committee hearing this past month.

NBC News reports that extensive patient data from Leon Medical Centers and Nocona General Hospital were published in an apparent extortion attempt.

This month and every month we and our sister sites MobiHealthNews and Healthcare Finance News will be reporting on the challenges, opportunities and success stories as work continues to build a healthcare system that works for everyone.

Machine learning can help flag troubling patterns and improve systems moving forward, says Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, director of clinical analytics at Linguamatics.

More than 100 stakeholders, including AMA, AHA and Mayo Clinic, have convened to release policy and regulatory recommendations to improve the country's disaster preparedness. 

In world-first move, Denmark's government has announced plans to introduce digital passports by the end of this month.

This week's top stories include Google Cloud joining the national COVID-19 vaccination effort, the federal government sending one million COVID-19 vaccine doses directly to 6,500 pharmacies, and a security breach at Montefiore Medical Center.

Vivify CEO Eric Rock talks about the ways health systems can use remote patient monitoring to maximize care.

Also, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford go live with new child health system.

As COVID-19 continues to surge in Los Angeles, LANES is enabling free-flowing data insights – medical, behavioral and socioeconomic ─ to close information gaps and improve clinical decision support for better outcomes.