By Kourtney Matlock, Corporate VP of Population Health, Baptist Health Role of emerging technologies in achieving population health Access for care management teams to LTCF (Long Term Care Facility) EMRs through patient portals or other programs are important for patient ...

By Dr. Patrick Dunn, Program Director, American Heart Association Center for Health Technology and Innovation Population health is a key part of the American Heart Association’s mission of being a relentless force for a world of longer and healthier lives ...

By David Smith, Associate VP of Virtual Medicine, Information Services, UMass Memorial Health The traditional house call, known by generations of patients and doctors alike, is making a comeback through telemedicine. With the advent of radio in the early 20th ...

By Aiesha Ahmed, VP, Population Health & Chief of Neurological Health - Spectrum Health The pandemic has catalyzed the care delivery innovations for the healthcare industry. As many healthcare organizations move towards value-based care, the focus has shifted to patient-centered ...

By Janice Thorpe, VP of Population Health and Erin Woodford, VP of Population Health, Genesis Healthcare The post-acute sector, specifically in the skilled nursing arena, continues to quickly evolve and change, as the landscape of payment shifts from a fee-for-service ...

By Lovina John, Program Manager, Population Health Informatics, Harpreet Gulati, Senior Director, Population Health Informatics, and Dr. Simita Mishra, Enterprise Leader, Population Health Informatics, Northwell Health It is predicted that 40% of the fortune 500 companies will no longer exist ...

By Saad Chaudhry, CIO, Luminis Health The recent pandemic years have changed many aspects of healthcare, from how it is delivered to how it is paid for and subsidized. With limitations on in-person interaction and extreme staffing shortages, many aspects ...

Colossal data volume is one of the salient aspects of population management. If unlocked, healthcare and public sector organizations can benefit a great deal from the insights and build useful solutions across the healthcare value chain. Buxton, a consumer intelligence ...

By Dr. Simita Mishra, AVP/Population Health Informatics Leader and Raman Vig, Community Remote Care Program Manager, Northwell Health The mission of the Northwell Population Health Informatics team is to improve population health and community outcomes through informatics and underlying technology. The ...

By Debbie Welle-Powell, Chief Population Health Officer, Essentia Health Essentia Health’s Population Health Strategy begins with our Mission of “We are called to make a Health Difference in People’s Lives”. This lays the groundwork for advancing three fundamental pillars in ...

By Jennifer a Houlihan, VP Value-Based Care & Population Health, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health systems are pacing their investments and transition to value-based care as the need to balance the potential rewards from shared savings and risk contracts ...

By Pavan Attur, CIO, Hudson Regional Hospital COVID-19 has a significant impact on all industries and mainly healthcare. Many lives were lost and hospitals and healthcare workers had to deal with unprecedented situation dealing with the new virus. This pandemic ...

By Heidi Baskfield, VP Population Health & Advocacy, Ellen Sublett, Quality Improvement Specialist, Sana Yousuf, Software Engineer, Children’s Hospital Colorado Developing an effective work that accomplishes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within an organization, requires deliberate and consistent intention to ...

By Isaiah Nathaniel, CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health We all know our healthcare system is fragmented. This isn’t something new or revolutionary. It is almost explicitly accepted as a course of business in healthcare. We collectively address it with a ...

By Kara Odom Walker, MD, MPH, MSHS, SVP & Chief Population Health Officer, Nemours Children’s Health System America’s children are the key to whether or not we will have healthier families and healthier communities in our future. Their care, opportunities, ...

By Douglas A. Spotts, Chief Health Officer, Meritus Health Meritus Health, a 275-bed independent hospital in Hagerstown, Maryland with a 100-year history of serving Hagerstown and rural Washington County, embarked on a Bold Goal 2030 strategic planning exercise in January ...

By Charleeda Redman, VP Strategy Integration, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia A definition proposed by David Kindig and Greg Stoddart in 2003 suggests population health is: “The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within ...

By Tyler Wilson, VP of Population Health and Clinical Quality, Austin Regional Clinic Austin Regional Clinic, in conjunction with health consulting firm MDH Consulting, has been working to improve communications with patients on specific messages, with the end goal of ...

By Jennifer Dunphy, DrPH, MBA, MPH, Chief Population Health Officer & SVP-Operations, Regal Medical Group, Inc. & Lakeside Community Healthcare The world has seen widespread upheaval in the new environment of COVID-19, healthcare-at-large, and specifically, the domain of population health ...

By Alka Kohli, MD, MBA, EVP & Chief Population Health and Clinical Officer, Inspira Health While the health care industry has always championed and driven innovation, the COVID-19 pandemic has advanced and accelerated the pace at which many technologies have ...

By Ron Parton, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Christus Health Plans Integrated health care systems are adopting digital and information technology, along with advanced analytics, as key ingredients in their transformation to population health. This translates to improved quality and ...

Population Health Management (PHM) has been an important component of healthcare delivery for over a decade, but a recent shift toward value-based care has accelerated its adoption. A well-developed PHM program allows clinicians to identify care gaps and improve patient ...

By Mitchell Fong, Director of Telehealth, Renown Health Since embarking on my graduate research study on Telehealth in 2011, I have dedicated my career to expanding telehealth services in both urban and rural areas of Nevada and California. This has ...

By Deepak Sadagopan, SVP Value-Based Care & Population Health Informatics, Providence St. Joseph Health One of the rare areas that has received bipartisan support from a federal policy perspective is the shift in healthcare payment models from Fee For Service ...

By Benson Hsu, VP, Population Health, Sanford Health Population health is one of the last frontiers in medicine. One can argue that genomics and other therapeutics advances are still ahead of us, but the reality is that all medical advances ...

By David K. Vawdrey, PhD, Chief Data Informatics Officer, Geisinger There is strong evidence that greater patient engagement leads to better health outcomes. But how do we make individuals become more engaged in their health and healthcare? Over the past ...

By Molly Menton, Director, Clinical Delivery, Evolent Health When everyone does better, everyone does better. There are so many polarizing views of the concept of “free” in the United States today, it becomes nearly impossible to unpack in one article. What ...

By Vincenzo Scivittaro, MD, MS-MIS, Director, Health Informatics and Population Health Solutions, IBM Watson Health The healthcare industry is going through an incredibly massive digital transformation, and this change comes with new responsibilities for the clinical leaders of healthcare organizations ...

By Omid Shabestari, MD PhD, Director of Health Analytics, Carilion Clinic Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems are a must have for any healthcare organization. They allow providers to have timely and easy access to information of the patients they are ...

By Richard Hom PhD MPA, Optometric Director, Blue Cross and Blue Shield We all want to know how to spend our health care dollars to achieve the best outcome at the lowest cost. Getting there will require the right mix ...