Population Health

If there’s one point a recent session at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute & Expo 2017 brought home, it’s that if providers and payers are going to manage their members as a population, they need to start by knowing them individually.

The $8 billion allocations proposed with the AHCA would have to cover the 17.5 million people who could lose coverage with Medicaid cuts.

Ed Ricks, VP and CIO at Beaufort Memorial Hospital, outlines current initiatives for his organization around data analytics, population health management and health IT security.

Bill Hoberecht and Ann Wells, MD, of Kaiser Permanente Colorado, discuss lessons learned after two decades of population health management.

Indranil Bardhan, professor of information systems, University of Texas Dallas, discusses his project to measure the relative performance of ACOs, and offers his thoughts on how ACOs can best use health IT for care coordination.

Renee Broadbent, Associate VP of Population Health and IT Strategy at UMass Memorial, and Thomas Scornavacca, MD, Senior Medical Director for Population Health at UMass Memorial, talk about the importance of physician engagement to pop health.

Katherine Baicker, professor of health economics at Harvard's T.

(SPONSORED) This panel discussion explores navigating value-based care and different strategies, solutions and opportunities in that space. Co-hosted by This Just In's Justin's Barnes and Tom Sullivan of Healthcare IT News.

Results of two polls published in the past week, from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Pew Research Center, demonstrate growing support for the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

There could be as many different wrap-ups on HIMSS17 as there were people there – over 42,000.