Population Health

At HIMSS24, CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen, and Deputy National Coordinator Steve Posnack discussed the state of public health data exchange, and where cross-agency collaboration can take it.

Engaging leaders and holding managers accountable can improve workplace culture and employee mental health in positive ways.

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf, with leaders from Hackensack Meridian and Google Cloud, explored how process automation can boost the sustainability of healthcare practices, large health systems and the environment – which has a direct impact on health outcomes.

Rachel Oldham, manager at Accenture, provides highlights of her upcoming HIMSS24 session "Dallas County Public Health Disease Surveillance and Investigation System."  

The Biden Cancer Moonshot says that Epic, Oracle Health, Meditech, athenahealth, Flatiron, Ontada, ThymeCare and CVS Health have adopted the CMS Enhancing Oncology Model to increase interoperability, advance equity and improve cancer diagnosis outcomes.

Dr. Brian Anderson, the newly-announced CEO of the Coalition for Health AI, offers some insights in a preview of his HIMSS24 panel discussion on the quest for responsible and transparent models.

Governments need to develop and fund enterprise architecture to solve major health issues like homelessness, according to Gabriel Seidman, director of policy at Ellison Institute of Technology, and his colleagues.  

The health plan will host Epic's Payer Platform on Google Cloud with an eye toward building "an intelligence system equipped with AI to deliver valuable analytics and insights to healthcare workers, patients, and members."

Public health, payment reform, enhanced delivery models and, yes, generative AI are just some of the topics to explore in these high-level sessions at HIMSS24.

It emphasises strong digital health literacy among consumers and carers as well as having secure connected digital solutions.