Population Health

New technologies bring the promise of earlier detection and automation, both with an eye on lowering costs.

The transition is one careers will be built on, if health executives align their delivery systems properly, deploy analytics, and maintain a strategic focus.

Some of the funding will go toward opioid addiction treatment and prevention, New Hampshire Hospital Association says.

Adults are four times as likely, and children at least two-times more likely, to receive certain preventative care services than uninsured, according to a report by America's Health Insurance Plans.

AI technology is already in use in certain aspects of healthcare, such as diagnostic imaging, but it's being underutilized in several others.

Prior to the program's start, there was evidence that black patients had, on average, 20 percent higher readmission rates than white patients.

Lack of access to nutritious food is a social determinant of health linked to high healthcare costs; about 13 percent of U.S. households report food insecurity.

Humana is challenged to improve the health of its Medicare Advantage population but got a boost in MA payments this week.

Generational divides surface between millennials, Generation Xers and baby boomers in how they engage with healthcare providers.

AxisPoint Health shifted its predictive analytics to move away from a macro, broad-brush approach to population health. Chief Medical Officer Virginia Gurley explains what that took, and what shares lessons that other healthcare executives can learn.