Population Health

The emirate’s health authority has been on a steady mission to improve and revolutionise healthcare since 2014.

Health plans can begin by collecting data on race and ethnicity from their members, says Leah Dewey, VP of clinical and consumer engagement operations at Cotiviti.

Socially at-risk patients need equity in their care. The HEI is to incentivize contracts for plans to perform better for these patients, says Christie Teigland, vice president of research science and advanced analytics at Inovalon.

Also, Fujitsu and Toppan have partnered to offer advanced big data analysis services.

Interoperability agreements between public health systems, along with centralized consent management for sharing healthcare and other data, are must-haves for advancing health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.

Critical patient insights were missing in more than 13% of Denver Health electronic health records. A new methodology has helped reduce this to less than 1%.

Seamlessly integrating technologies can reduce retained surgical items events and support improved patient outcomes and reduced legal liabilities.

CMS should get more information from Medicare users to help address their health disparities, suggests Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.

A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that "ongoing telemedicine use is fairly effective in having limited return office visits, low emergency visit rates, and very low hospitalization rates compared to office visits."

DUOS uses large language models to leverage social determinants of health and enhance care-navigation access for Medicare beneficiaries. Feedback from platform users improves the artificial intelligence, said Karl Ulfers, cofounder and CEO.