Population Health

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC was the first pediatric hospital in the U.

Harnessing analytics has led to big gains for Maine-based health system to dramatically reduce readmissions, identify high-risk patients and utilize real-time data.

There are two major roadblocks for analytics in healthcare, says Sriram Vishwanath, professor of engineering and data science at University of Texas, Austin.

The confluence of new care models and technology are enabling data scientists to pinpoint gaps in access to care, address social determinants of health, and map data that informs tactics to improve outcomes at the patient and population level.

The pediatric endocrinologist at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital is known for his HealthKit pilot study on Type 1 diabetes patients.

Vice President Joe Biden unveiled the precision medicine database on Monday, speaking at its operations center at the University of Chicago. Genomic Data Commons is a National Cancer Institute initiative and is central to the National Cancer Moonshot and Precision Medicine Initiative.

Research firm’s latest report also reveals that electronic health records software vendors have made substantial clinical workflow enhancements since 2014 but lacking interoperability continues having an impact on users.

Nicholas Marko, MD breaks down the differences between big data analytics and business intelligence, and explains how Geisinger chooses between centralizing and federating data.

A surge of recent developments – the rise in apps for care management and wellness, advances in research data, precision medicine gains – is placing a great responsibility on healthcare leaders to break down data silos to simplify data sharing among providers. And consumers, too.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting topic and speaker proposals for Pop Health Forum 2016, scheduled for September 12-13.