Population Health

Anna Basevich, SVP of enterprise partnerships and customer enablement at Arcadia, explains how MA plans will need to measure performance ahead of 2027 when CMS will start rewarding plans that demonstrate progress in addressing health disparities.  

Learning from each other and the exchange of ideas happening in Rome during HIMSS24 Europe is "electrifying," says Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, who notes he is already looking forward to HIMSS25 in Paris.

UCSF Health and the university's clinical informatics division plan to develop a real-time and automated artificial intelligence monitoring platform for clinical care.

A study published in Clinical Imaging says ChatGPT can simplify radiology reports, but the results differ significantly based on racial context.  

Many patients who had 40% medication adherence rates now take their medication 90% of the time. And the organization has seen a 29% reduction in inpatient utilization and a 24% reduction in ER utilization.

The installation is expected to relieve overcrowding in rural health facilities.

Asad Lilani, political strategy director at the Access Challenge, says the NGO recruits regional influencers and community members for its African vaccination campaigns. Their messages appear on each region's favored communications platform.

Temporary Medicare items will be in trial soon to allow patients to get admitted and seek psychiatric virtual consultations in private hospitals.

Gözde Susuzlu Briggs, programme manager for the European Patients' Forum, discusses the "Data Saves Lives" initiative, which explains digital data and AI concepts to patients and encourages involvement in patient advocacy organizations.

CIO Craig Kwiatkowski describes some of the artificial intelligence tools in use at the Los Angeles health system – and shows how teams are employing an AI-powered primary care app to train on datasets that reflect diverse populations.