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Population Health

By Sara Mageit | 08:35 am | September 28, 2020
The new app does not work with a variety of older phones and generated false readings of close contacts in a third of cases.
By Kat Jercich | 06:02 pm | September 25, 2020
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may follow through on threats to revoke federal Medicare funding for hospitals that don't meet COVID-19 patient data requirements, reported NPR this week.
By Kat Jercich | 03:02 pm | September 25, 2020
The American Telemedicine Association's comments focused on expanding telehealth access, changes to remote monitoring services, and the provision of telehealth in federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
By HIMSS TV | 02:50 pm | September 25, 2020
Amy Trainor, vice president of IS clinical systems at Ochsner Health, shares how, in the midst of the crisis, the healthcare provider organized, formatted and shared data for a "never again" scenario.
By HIMSS TV | 10:31 am | September 25, 2020
This week's top stories include a look at what the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg could mean for the Affordable Care Act, femtech companies bemoaning advertising difficulties on social media and the emergence of social informatics.
By HIMSS TV | 01:35 pm | September 24, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic presents both challenges and opportunities for real-world data generation surrounding scale, privacy and ethics, says Nigel Hughes, scientific director RWD/RWE at Janssen Research and Development.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:01 pm | September 24, 2020
The Oregon coordinated care organization lines up care plans, goals and tasks to keep care teams and members on track and on the same page.
By HIMSS TV | 08:21 am | September 24, 2020
In a time when understanding of COVID-19 is changing by the day, maintaining rigorous editorial and medical standards while also exploring new ideas and concepts is critical, says Dr. Eric J. Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.
By Kat Jercich | 05:33 pm | September 23, 2020
Connect Rx Wisconsin won $1 million earlier this month to create an integrated network of healthcare and social service systems across Dane County, home to Epic's campus headquarters.
By Mike Miliard | 02:21 pm | September 23, 2020
Researchers at UCSF describe the emergence of a new field dedicated to better integrating and supporting the clinical use of social determinants of health data.