Population Health

The plan includes eight goals and accompanying strategies that outline what HHS said must be accomplished to further the Cancer Moonshot.

Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) members Scott McKeithen, Marleen Welsh and Charles Baschnagel preview their panel at HIMSS23 on the ways biosurveillance helps public health officials during pandemics.

That's three years later than the prediction from the 2022 report, which projected a 2028 time frame for when the fund would evaporate.

The group issues recommendations to reduce health disparities and increase access to higher-quality care for underserved populations.

Senators Cassidy and Merkley contend that MA plans have a financial incentive to make beneficiaries appear sicker than they are.

Telemedicine can help deliver healthcare to the underserved, according to Howard Rubin, CIO at Evara Health, an FQHC.  

The FDA has approved the first nonprescription OTC naloxone nasal spray, Narcan.

In a preview of their HIMSS23 discussion of a coalition aimed at curing healthcare disparities in the city, Russ Hinz of Advocate Health, Stephanie Chia of University of Chicago Medicine and Susan Tolin from Chartis talk about their experiences and the results.

Scripps Health's Tracy Chu previews her HIMSS23 presentation, "Automation Improves Digital Education App Performance," about ways automation has helped patients and clinician workflows.

Racial and ethnic minority groups have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the ACA, and specifically of expanded Medicaid eligibility.