Population Health

Healthcare leaders have weighed in on the interim 2024 Health Budget with hopes for investment in tech, particularly AI. 

Also, the NSW government has expanded statewide the implementation of its virtual urgent care service for children.

In season 2, episode 1 of "Unlocking Big Data," sponsored by Arcadia, Albert Marinez, Cleveland Clinic’s chief analytics officer, and Michael Meucci, Arcadia’s president & CEO, talk about how data analytics platforms boost efficiency and care access.

How healthcare organizations are implementing AI/ML tools.

The agency seeks to use extended reality and digital therapeutics to create healing "journeys" for aging Vietnam veterans that could improve their relationships with caregivers.

Automation is helping staff save time and reducing the potential for keyboard errors, its CIDO says. Artificial intelligence is also enhancing medication history data for 81% of all available home medications so patient records contain fewer gaps.

At HIMSS24, a clinician will show how the community provider’s more enlightened, person-centered approach for its Native American and POC patients has helped reduce the number of custody holds for drug and alcohol emergencies by more than 90%.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is working with Bicycle Health to give individuals released from prison continued access to monthly injections of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder. Bicycle Health CEO Ankit Gupta offers a deep dive.  

Luis Ahumada, director of health data science and analytics at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, explains why gathering high quality data for every population and validation are key to building valuable artificial intelligence models.  

PA Navigate will refer patients to services in their communities that address their gaps in social determinants of health, including food, shelter and transportation.