By Don Livsey – Big data, informatics, business intelligence, and data mining have all been floated as “silver bullets” to solve the riddle of healthcare reform. One that will likely have the biggest impact, however, is population health. HealthcareIT News recently reported that population health and data analytics are the top two topics of interest for 2016.
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By Manu Tandon – Population health conversation last year was about maximizing revenue for the organization. Now it’s about identifying and managing cohorts of patients using patient generate data as a source. The best thinking we saw aligns very well with ours.
HIMSS16 offers a number of Specialty Exhibit Areas for attendees to explore. These exhibits provide education sessions, demonstrations and peer-to-peer engagement on RCM, pop health, business intelligence and more.
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.
By Sarianne Gruber – Before we had patient panels and electronic health records, there were patient study logs and regulatory binders. Yet, the same questions are asked today when analyzing study outcomes as yesteryear. How do you assess a treatment, procedure or process for a specific disease in your population sample with the presence of confounding diseases? The answer is a Comorbidity Index.
By Justin Barnes – The transition to value-based care is not an easy one. Organizations will face numerous challenges on their journey towards population health management. We believe there are five key elements and best practices to consider when transitioning from volume to value-based care:
By Sarianne Gruber – Having once been a graduate student in Epidemiology and Public Health, certain books still remain my bookshelf as iconic references for studying disease and our healthcare system. There is the bright orange, soft covered, Foundations of Epidemiology by the father and son team Abraham M. Lilienfeld and David E. Lilienfeld, a relic from the required reading list.
By Sarianne Gruber – HealthEC gets population health, physician and patient engagement, and the power of data. I visited with Mr. Arthur Kapoor, Chairman and Founder, and Dr. Sanjay Seth, Executive VP, of HealthEC at their headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey to learn more about their healthcare philosophy and their suite of population heath management solutions.
By Dr. Anthony Oliva – Being able to “speak doctor” ensures that physicians are accurately capturing the level they provide to patients, and enables healthcare organizations to correctly identify their patient populations and predict their future healthcare needs.