By David Macfarlane – Maybe the initial challenge of population health is deciding exactly what that phrase means. Well before it became a catchphrase in health IT, population health was the province of academics who devised predictably academic definitions.
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By Sarianne Gruber – Population Health Management strives for health providers to care for their patients with the overarching goal of improving quality outcomes, coupled with lower costs. Healthcare reform expects the inclusion of all associated costs of care and treatment for a comprehensive analysis as a means to reduce the per capita cost of healthcare.
Shifting healthcare priorities and business models, increasing healthcare costs, and the emergence of big data analytics are helping to drive the population health management (PHM) market forward.
By William Hersh MD – One of my favorite events each year is the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. It is an excellent meeting that brings together presentation of new research, up-to-date summaries of progress in the field, and great social events.
By Lindy Benton – Single platform healthcare communications can now be the new normal for hospitals. While EHRs are a good fit for managing data, they often exclude factors pertaining to the administrative and financial operations of the hospital. EHRs are also limited when it comes to communication.
The Medical Algorithms Company (Medal) has spent the past 15 years rigorously mining medical literature for computable health analytics, such as predictive algorithms and scores. Thousands of these algorithms are available for use on Medal’s website.
By Art Gross – A recent study by the Ponemon Institute calculated the cost of a healthcare related data breach to be $363 per record. This was the highest amount across all industries. A financial data breach cost $215 per record and a retail data breach cost $165 per record.
By Gregory Ator MD – It is well known that healthcare is moving from volume to value – value defined as optimal outcomes for the least cost. And with some urgency, many organizations are trying to figure out how to successfully navigate this transition.
By Julie Rovner – Medicine, meet Big Data. For generations, physicians have been trained in basic science and human anatomy to diagnose and treat the individual patient. But now, massive stores of data about what works for which patients are literally changing the way medicine is practiced.