Population Health

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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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By Neeta Goel, M.D., Medical Director, Quality & Population Health, Inova Health System Engaging patients in their care is key to improving population health outcomes. One of the ways patients can be better engaged in improving their health is by ...
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By Emily Griese, PhD, Director, Population Health, Sanford Health & Associate Scientist, Population Health, Sanford Research Technology continues to propel the healthcare sector forward. Consider the advents within healthcare data: long gone are paper charts filled with unintelligible provider notes, ...
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Gavin Quinnies, President | CEO, US HealthCenter With the advent of technology, the healthcare sector underwent a significant transformation towards bettering care delivery. However, as the concern of increased flow of patients and the subsequent cost to manage and provide ...
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By Valerie Fong, MSN, RN, Executive Director Regional Clinical Informatics – CNIO & Rick Davis, MBA, Executive Director IS Strategic Partner, Providence St. Joseph Health The average age of a registered nurse in the United States is close to 50 ...
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By Pamela Arora, SVP CIO and Katherine Lusk, Chief Health Information Management & Exchange Officer, Children's Health In 2012, Children’s HealthSM faced two significant environmental changes that held the potential to impact provider workflow vis-a-vis additional documentation requirements. And if ...
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By Suma Gaddam, Former CIO, Care New England The Cost Conundrum There is an ancient proverb-Health is Wealth. While it may have many connotations, it seems a lot like a formula in the economics of population health. Try and apply ...
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By Beverly Jordan, Vice President and Chief Information and Transformation Officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care While electronic health records are mandated under the Affordable Care Act, the real key to making an EHR beneficial for everyone is understating how it works ...
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By Patrick A. Woodard, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer for IT, Renown Health One need not have read Dr. Atul Gawande's recent 9,000-word essay or visited a physicians’ lounge to know that doctors are not fans of the electronic medical ...
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By Amer Saati, MD, MS, Physician Informaticist, Northwell Health One of the new trends in health IT is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare settings. It has been a black box to many healthcare professionals and front end ...
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By Bridget McKenzie, Chief Nursing Officer and VP of Medical Management, Conifer Health Solutions People are living longer than ever, and as the baby boomers age, providing care to an exponentially larger, complex population will place a strain on the ...
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By Bridget Gallagher, VP, Americare I have an Aunt, who is 86 years old and provides aide services 4- 5 hours a day to a 94-year-old woman living in her neighborhood. The 94-year-old, who I will call Ethel, is what ...
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