Population Health
The informatics group says a nationwide commitment to an improved digital infrastructure and data literacy across the workforce will lead to better health.
The ability to view information on a patient's 10 previous ED visits across different health systems saved on unneeded imaging tests and prevented the prescription of narcotics, one physician said.
Chesapeake Regional Healthcare sought to motivate smokers to get screened and used cloud-based analytics and marketing technology to successfully target them.
Information governance best practices, effective pop health management strategies, artificial intelligence and precision medicine all get a close-up look this October.
The new technology, pioneered by researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, could improve the lives of millions of spinal cord injury patients.
The startup is working in conjunction with Cape Fear Valley Health pilot test to add social features for Medicare beneficiaries with congestive heart failure.
Organizations are each expanding services to address non-medical factors that can have a significant impact on individual and population health.
New clinical and operational use cases are emerging for natural language processing, from risk adjustment to population surveillance and beyond.
To address capacity challenges, the hospital implemented a strategic patient flow plan that included a centralized patient placement center.
Physicians at Affiliated Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of Maryland now have a better handle on opioid prescribing as they try to combat the ongoing crisis.