Population Health
The findings have implications for improving outcomes and reducing disparities in that they target a more vulnerable patient population.
The promise of personalizing care is enormous but it will also require hefty investments to turn it into a reality.
E-VAL Saúde Director Luis Gustavo Kiatake says Brazil faces interoperability, privacy and infrastructure challenges, and its large population is making solutions more complex.
California is leading the way with new state privacy regulations. Are healthcare organizations prepared? CynergisTek EVP Angela Rivera discusses the privacy issue.
A Medicare Advantage member who is food insecure can have up to 26.6 unhealthy days a month, correlating to 10 hospital admissions per thousand, or $15.64 per member per month in higher medical costs.
New Jersey state officials Shereef Elnahal and Nancy Pinkin discuss how prescription drug monitoring programs are forcing providers to put data into a state system for use in making informed care decisions.
TriHealth, winner of the HIMSS Davies Award, got all of its nursing and home care facilities documenting quality and utilization directly into its Epic EHR to determine the best outcomes and give patients solutions to make care decisions.
Speaking both the payers' and the providers' languages is key to getting them to trust each other, according to Central Georgia Health Network VP Jodi Ingram and CIO Gabriel Orthous.
Even the positive health effects observed in participating employees fell short of certain clinical measures of health.
The label could postpone nearly three million cases of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.