Population Health

Gustavo Adolfo Torres Becerra, healthcare manager at Minsait, an Indra company, talks about how interoperability enables citizens’ clinical data to be recorded to help them receive more personalized care and become involved in their own health.

Alfredo Almerares, clinical executive manager at InterSystems, says the company’s Latin American team’s maturity and experience helps them collaborate with customers on shared goals during the implementation of new tools.

Gabriel Garcia-Lopez, health information systems director at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, explains how attending a HIMSS conference inspired him to serve on HIMSS committees to help advance LGBTQ+ health equity – and led to a 2024 Changemaker Award.  

In season 2, episode 5 of "Unlocking Big Data," sponsored by Arcadia, John Halamka, president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Arcadia president and CEO Michael Meucci, talk about AI use cases that improve clinicians’ efficiency and job satisfaction.

New data shows how post-acute facilities understand patients' needs and can provide services that both improve outcomes and meet CMS' value-based care standards. Heidi Wold, chief population health officer at Longevity Health Plan, explains.  

Native leaders should work to ensure culturally relevant education and care for their populations, says Dr. Donald Warne, codirector of the Center for Indigenous Health at Johns Hopkins and a HIMSS24 Changemaker.

Securing transportation and other needed resources for patients through text messages is one way to ensure health equity for the underserved, says Dr. Emily C. Webber, CMIO at Indiana University Health and 2024 Changemaker Award winner.  

Through volunteer work after the 2020 Beirut explosion, Marina El Khawand, founder and president of Medonations, describes how getting a patient in dire need of her inhaler evolved into starting an NGO that crowdsources medications for Lebanese patients.

Payers will not only need to comply with the 2024 CMS Final Rule pertaining to materials and content, but they will need to go the extra mile because it affects star ratings, says Ernie Crawford, president and CEO of Crawford Technologies.  

Eduardo Iglesias, founder and CEO of VivaWell, talks about how VivaWell’s healthcare plans prioritizing illness prevention are being offered as an employee benefit by Latin American corporations and are already demonstrating ROI.