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Also, Te Whatu Ora is consolidating the costing systems across New Zealand's South Island.
Dr. Michael Poku, chief clinical officer at Equality Health, talks tech needed to successfully tackle inequity, the benefits of investment in independent primary care physicians and how providers can work on the costs of health inequities.
The CIO, who is also an associate dean at Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses AI and innovation projects his team has been working on, where he’s prioritizing strategic IT investments, and some emerging technologies that have him intrigued.
By integrating a patient portal screening tool into the clinical workflow, Tufts University researchers aim to advance the use of HIT to identify food-insecure and nutrition-insecure patients and pave the way to interventions like nutrition prescriptions.
Health plans can begin by collecting data on race and ethnicity from their members, says Leah Dewey, VP of clinical and consumer engagement operations at Cotiviti.
Socially at-risk patients need equity in their care. The HEI is to incentivize contracts for plans to perform better for these patients, says Christie Teigland, vice president of research science and advanced analytics at Inovalon.
Researchers will use $40 million in funding to develop quantum algorithms and workflows. They will also partner with Algorithmiq on a second initiative to create computational tools that demonstrate quantum advantage.
A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that "ongoing telemedicine use is fairly effective in having limited return office visits, low emergency visit rates, and very low hospitalization rates compared to office visits."
DUOS uses large language models to leverage social determinants of health and enhance care-navigation access for Medicare beneficiaries. Feedback from platform users improves the artificial intelligence, said Karl Ulfers, cofounder and CEO.