Population Health

Digital therapeutic app EndeavorRx improves attention function in children ages 8-12, says Scott Kollins, chief medical officer at Akili Interactive.

Italy's strategy for digital health has grown since the HIMSS Italian community was created in 2017, says founder Elena Sini, chair of board of directors of HIMSS, during a discussion about next year's event with HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.  

In his 50 years of attending HIMSS events, Dan Soule, VP of technology operations at Health Catalyst, has seen an evolution in the EHR, clinical advances, AI innovation and attention to health equity.

The new headquarters aligns the communities in Europe and AsiaPac to chapters in North America and India, Wolf says.  

CareSignal, which is part of Lightbeam, takes population health enablement strategies and metrics to clinicians, says CareSignal CEO Blake Marggraff and Lightbeam president Jerry Shultz.

For Medicare Advantage audits, there must be evidence in the medical documentation to support the billing codes, says David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems.

Health IT modernization effort is underway, while honoring the data sovereignty of the separate communities, says A.C. Locklear, the board's federal relations director.  

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, discusses using data to determine patients at risk and programs that will make a difference.

Epic MyChart is used to communicate with patients about clinical research, says Cleveland Clinic's chief research information officer Dr. Lara Jehi, and IT product director for population health Craig Martin.

The current manual process could be made easier by mining data in the EHR for specific research, says Robert Stillman, director of clinical and research informatics at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.