Population Health

Whether it's wider appreciation for telehealth and RPM, or more attention paid to healthcare inequities and the loneliness epidemic, there will be some good to come from this crisis, says its Chief Strategy Officer.

The current crisis has been called a 'once in a career opportunity to transform the NHS.' Instead, perhaps we should call it 'a once in a career opportunity to reduce health inequalities and discrimination.

A new study suggests that a deep learning system would save on the roughly two minutes of human labor required to grade each case, although a semi-automated approach was found to drive the greatest savings for large programs.

Further, the network’s clinical portal has served in times of crisis as a backup system for health systems in the case of unexpected EHR outages or planned upgrades.

The telehealth vendor's deal with the state comes shortly after another agreement that provided the services to Medicaid, children's health insurance members.

Digital tools, including apps and telehealth, can help significantly as we continue to fight COVID-19 and prepare for a new way of living in a post-coronavirus world.

In March, we asked our readers to start sharing their stories of how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting them, both personally and professionally.

The newly created Indiana Network for Population Health aims to securely exchange information on factors that affect population health and healthcare delivery.

On another health IT front at the Alliance for Integrated Care of New York, data used to risk-stratify patients resulted in a $2.4 million reduction in total costs for the ACO.

COVID-19 emphasizes how the social determinants are connected to physical health, according to Humana and National Quality Forum.