As population health management becomes a vital element for long-term success, it’s time to take a closer look at what is holding providers and health plans from gaining the value they seek.
Value-based care results in a lot of added administrative tasks for physicians — so much so that one health system leader believes value-based care will never reach true scale unless providers figure out how to ease that burden. The adoption of new technology, coupled with workflow training from fellow physicians, can help address this issue, population health experts say.
Executives from Imagine360, Verily, BrightInsight, Lantern, and Rhapsody shared their approaches to reducing healthcare costs and facilitating digital transformation.
The IBC Foundation Institute for Health Equity's initial focus areas will include digital health, cultural competence in medicine and maternal health. The money committed for the creation of the Institute will be spent over a five-year period.
Population health management advocates need to demonstrate how redefining care management by adopting a holistic viewpoint to include what’s happening outside the hospital will help systems influence health at scale and improve care at a lower cost.
Guidewell Connect previously acquired population health management company PopHealthCare in 2017 to expand its capabilities to care for patients suffering from complex and chronic illness in post-acute and in-home care settings.
The company, Ayin Health Solutions, aims to equip payers, providers, employers and government entities with the expertise they need to cut costs, improve care and stay on top of population health efforts.
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In a phone Q&A, Nash, the founding dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health and the co-host of the 19th annual Population Health Colloquium, muses on precision medicine, social determinants of health and the future of pop health.
The finding comes from a Sage Growth Partners report, which also points out that between 60 and 75 percent of surveyed providers are looking for value-based care solutions outside their EHR.
In an effort to improve its foothold in the population health space, Philips has acquired VitalHealth, which provides cloud-based population health management solutions. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Sources told CNBC that Cerner and Amazon Web Services are in the late stages of talks about a partnership surrounding HealtheIntent, Cerner's population health offering.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Mount Sinai Health System is boosting its interest in pop health initiatives by collaborating with Lumeris. The St. Louis-based company will lend a hand with its technology and value-based model.
Hospitals & Health Networks' "Most Wired" list is officially out. The hospitals that made the cut go above and beyond to ensure their technologies are top-notch. But there's still work to do — Most Wired hospitals must continue to find ways of using tech to meet their long-term objectives.
Valley Health Plan, a California-based organization with 160,000 members, has implemented AxisPoint Health's CarePoint condition management solution.
Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare unit of Siemens AG, is taking another step into the population health scene through a planned acquisition of Medicalis Corporation.
Partners in Care is the managed services organization for United Medical Group, an independent physician association affiliated with Barnabas Health.