Population Health

genetic sequencing precision medicine challenges

Is your hospital ready for the many challenges of precision medicine?

By Mike Miliard 09:30 am May 30, 2018

There are big and complex questions as genomics moves into general practice, but they're ones providers who want to stay competitive will have to grapple with soon.

At UPMC, remote patient monitoring helps reduce ER utilization and hospital readmissions

By Bill Siwicki 01:45 pm May 24, 2018

Its clinical use of remote monitoring is focused on congestive heart failure, advanced illness care, tobacco treatment services and inflammatory bowel diseases.

Bruce Greenstein departs as HHS CTO, heads back to private sector

By Mike Miliard 11:54 am May 23, 2018

After a year serving as the top tech strategist at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Greenstein to join LHC Group.

Denise Olivares Prognos VP talks about financial analytics

Prognos VP says analytics success requires a marriage of business and IT

By Susan Morse 01:31 pm May 21, 2018

Denise Olivares explains that women tend to be good at piecing together various data sets, as she does in working with healthcare payers to identify risk within a patient population.

First IT-savvy med students graduate under pioneering AMA program

By Mike Miliard 03:54 pm May 15, 2018

The American Medical Association's Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium seeks to train new physicians with EHRs, pop health and value-based care in mind.

Part of the group practice's strategy is to train triage nurses to work with providers to schedule urgent appointments, even double booking when necessary.

Columbia Medical Associates saves $6.5 million in total cost of care by tackling ED visits

By Bill Siwicki 04:34 pm May 14, 2018

The multi-specialty group practice undertook a large project to use analytics and reduce emergency room utilization – and it worked.

doctor talking with patient at hospital about EHR

Precision medicine: 'We want to make sure people feel respected,' clinical ethicist says

By Bernie Monegain 11:44 am May 14, 2018

As hospitals collect patient data they must characterize it well, apply new technologies – and practice what Cleveland Clinic’s Paul Ford calls "human medicine."

next generation analytics reviewed by doctor on EHR

Next-gen analytics: Here's what's coming in the future

By Bill Siwicki 09:11 am May 14, 2018

Hospitals should expect orders of magnitude more data – but will also see emerging tools such as artificial intelligence and 5G connectivity helping to put both structured and unstructured information to work.