Population Health

Mature health systems recognize the importance of context and design virtual care programs accordingly. Telehealth looks different for millennials and retirees, rural and urban patients and population groups with fundamentally different healthcare needs.

We start 2021 with hope and well-founded optimism, despite the ravages of the pandemic, reflects Dr Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer at HIMSS. 

Access to a complete picture of the patient – including the behavioral and environmental factors that influence daily health – is critical to realizing the shared benefits of value-based, holistic care.

Improving quality while lowering costs is a recurring theme for many healthcare organizations today, yet barriers exist with the massive amount of data being collected across multiple organizations and applications. Additionally, data silos create massive lag times that prevent the provider from having the most up to date information at the point of care. IT leaders must have a strategy to connect disparate systems, while securing the data in order to meet this need. 

Kaiser Permanente generates vast data assets across clinical care, healthcare delivery operations, insurance, and more. This session covers two journeys with self-service visual analytics within KP: medical imaging and kidney disease care. Both teams use analytics to empower hundreds of clinical and operational users across Southern California to quickly answer ad hoc questions, regularly monitor performance, and proactively manage panels of high-risk patients. We will demonstrate both traditional BI and advanced analytics solutions, ranging from descriptive reporting to predictive modeling.

HIMSS’ final ask of state/local/provincial governments is for states continue to supercharge their community-based health IT infrastructure by creating and utilizing integrated, community-based data hubs (or open-data portals) with real-time dashboards and shared analytics to combat the opioid epidemic. The use of these platforms supports deeper collaboration across state agencies, local health departments, hospitals, emergency responders, law enforcement and behavioral health agencies. 

Improving population health and delivering personalized medicine all starts with research. But recruiting patients is an age-old problem: only 3 percent of cancer patients enroll in clinical trials, and more than half of clinical trials fail due to under-enrollment.  The Athena Breast Health Network, a University of California-wide collaboration based at UCSF, strives to change that paradigm. 

Join our webinar to take a deep dive into the research and solutions that healthcare organizations are using today to achieve success and satisfaction in clinical decision support (CDS), including the role of open-source software to obtain the desired capabilities.

Connected health and remote patient monitoring, combined with interactive patient engagement apps, have a tremendous potential to transform chronic disease management in the hospital setting and beyond. But deploying such programs, and managing the IoT assets they often depend on, can pose a host of challenges at both the provider and the patient level.

In 2016 alone, more than 11.5 million people reported misuse of prescription pain medicine. HIMSS recognizes the role and value of health information and technology to address the opioid crisis. HIMSS also aims to elevate the voices of women who have been fiercely working to address the crisis across the U.S.