The Intersection of Politics, Poverty, and Pop Health
Jefferson College of Population Health Dean David Nash, MD, explains the facts and why they matter.
How DNA and EHR Data Helped Pinpoint a Pivotal Gene Variant
Hint: The finding relied on medical information from more than 46,000 Geisinger patients.
Managing Your Data Supply Chain: A Holistic Approach to Data Quality
Believe it or not, healthcare data professionals can learn a lot from the IKEA horse meatball incident.
Personalized Health Startup Gets $4M Seed
Can the company carve its own lane in the benefits navigation space by focusing on employers?
Community Is Fundamental to Population Health
This year’s meeting focused heavily on the need for grassroots efforts to improve health in communities.
Why C-Suites Need to Get a Grip on Physician Burnout
No shiny object can distract from the fact that a happy workforce is every exec’s best asset.
Wyoming Builds Health Information Exchange to Open Flow of Patient Data
How the statewide HIE is slated to improve data aggregation, interoperability, and care.
Threats to Health Data Often Come From Inside, Report Finds
A Verizon study concluded that healthcare is the only industry whose biggest threat is internal. Here’s how health systems can prepare.
Is There a Difference Between Public Health and Population Health?
The public health community ignores 3 important questions, according to the Dean of the College of Population Health.
Can Chicago Hospitals Harness Their Economic Might to Improve Lives on the West Side?
Average lifespan in the West Side is 69 years. “That was the lifespan in the 1950s,” according to Darlene Oliver Hightower. “That’s the lifespan in Iraq.”
Finger Lakes Health Battling Ransomware Attack
The 3-hospital system in New York has instituted downtime protocols. What would your organization do?
Pursuing Interoperability, UPMC Innovator to Head VA's Open API Project
The disrupter hopes the initiative will help foster better data sharing across the healthcare system.
Race, Housing, and History Must Be Part of the Population Health Conversation
"Where do you think most of the health issues are? We have to first acknowledge that it, in fact, occurred.”
In Rural India, a Mobile Alert and Healthier Kids
Vaccination rates soared during the study. But can the program work for the rural US?
3D Model Could Provide Better Understanding of Cancer's Spread
What might this means of data generation teach medicine about drugs?
Humana Looks to Loneliness and Food Insecurity for Its Bold Population Health Goals
It wants the communities it serves to be 20% healthier by 2020.
Shulkin: A Transparent VA Will Lead the Way for the Rest of Healthcare
Secretary Shulkin led off a speech today in Philadelphia by reading off a scathing criticisim of his agency.
David Nash's "Dirty Dozen" Population Health Trends
At the Population Health Colloquium, the Dean of Jefferson College of Population Health had 11 trends to watch...and 1 big brag.
Has the VA/Cerner Deal Ballooned From $10B to $16B?
“We are talking about a $16 billion project that will take a very long time,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) said yesterday. Previous projections had been much lower.
Penetration Testing: If You Can't Beat the Hackers, Join Them
Cybercriminals are coming for your healthcare data. Here’s how you can fight fire with fire.
A New Ethical Wrinkle for Medical Algorithms
Unintentional bias and data privacy often steer the conversation. Profiteering, intentional bias, and the possibility of machine dependence don’t.
How a Fitbit and Virtual Coaching Helped Cardiac Patients Maintain Their Fitness
The combination of internal and external motivators can be powerful for patients in cardiac rehabilitation.
Newly-Reported Incidents Put February's Compromised Patient Record Total Over 300k
Just because February's over doesn't mean healthcare organizations are done reporting data breaches to OCR. One new incident may have compromised 135,000 patient records.
The Announcement that David Shulkin Didn't Make at HIMSS
According to a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs meeting this morning, the Secretary was supposed to announce a finalized Cerner contract during last week's megaconference. He didn't.
Dissecting the HIMSS Blockchain Buzz
At HIMSS, we asked dozens of attendees what buzzwords were starting to wear on them. A few words broke away from the pack.
An Investor and an Innovator: The Birth of Sansoro Health
At HIMSS 2018, we spoke with venture capitalist Anya Scheiss and healthtech startup exec David Levin, MD, whose company Scheiss helped get off the ground.
Texas Team Becomes First in US to Perform AR Sinus Surgery
Augmented reality could become a valuable teaching tool for the next generation of surgeons.
Employing Eye Experts, Google Sharpens Its Disease-Detecting AI
How the machine learning algorithm came to match the capabilities of ophthalmologists and retinal specialists.
Precision Medicine, Sure. But What About Precision Payments?
Cota and Hackensack Meridian Health’s path toward bundled payments holds lessons for others.
Using AI and Biosensors to Snuff Out Heart Failure in Veterans
Why the combination proved effective in a study, allowing pre-hospital interventions.
