Population Health
While experts at the HIMSS Pop Health Forum point to a host of innovations, one thing seems certain: Value-based care is here to stay.
As providers focus on access, connectivity, social determinants and bridging gaps in care, they will be able to apply techniques to wider populations.
Insurers provide the broader view on claims while hospitals have the deeper information on patient care through electronic medical records and clinical data.
With many specialists becoming de facto primary care physicians, experts say they should emulate payers' pop health management techniques to control costs.
Speakers at the upcoming Pop Health Forum will share insights about engaging patients, both on-site and virtually.
Researchers used a national hospital database and evaluated almost 23 million adult hospital admissions in 162 hospitals across 44 states.
Proposal was published this week in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, a journal for the American College of Emergency Physicians or ACEP.
Five new clinics opened in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens; per earnings call CVS Health will expand chronic disease services beyond diabetes.
A hospital in Trinity, Texas closed on August 1, and another in Crockett, Texas on July 1.
Included in the efforts are testing for deadly drug-resistant bacteria and a new lab devoted to DNA sequencing of tuberculosis bacteria.