Population Health

IT-optimized changes created big improvements in chronic care management, hospital executive says.

The Department of Veterans Affairs launched a value management system to bridge the gap between fee-for-service and value-based care.

New York University Langone Medical Center director says enlisting clinical champions and demonstrating value can help great ideas take root.

But HIMSS Analytics director Brendan FitzGerald says you do need a core set of tech tools to get the job done.

At Kaiser Permanente Colorado, "personalized health management" relies on IT savvy, clear operational goals and data that paints the entire health picture.

Keeping physicians engaged is important, but health systems need their technology teams involved from the start, execs say at Pop Health Forum.  

Palmetto Health execs say internal challenges made their own rollout a difficult process.

Katherine Baicker, professor of health economics at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, spoke at the HIMSS Pop Health Forum about the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, whose findings on the effects of Medicaid expansion have been touted by both supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act.

Instead, it’s the financial implications, IT infrastructure, provider readiness and cultural readiness that can make or break population health, healthcare leaders say at the Pop Health Forum.

Focus on analytics, data and maintaining patient access, speakers at the Pop Health Forum in Boston say.