Population Health

Rideshare technology is removing transportation as a barrier to care, assisting the elderly, low-income patients and those who have chronic and complex care needs, says Aaron Crowell, head of Uber Health.

Dr. David Nace, chief medical officer of Innovaccer, says ZIP code-level data about risk indicators and social vulnerability of patients and populations exists, and making it actionable is key.

Alan Gilbert, CEO of digital therapeutic company BeCare Link, discusses how artificial intelligence is being used to predict disease progression for multiple sclerosis patients - helping improve care, lower costs and decrease hospitalizations.

Brian Dixon, director of Health Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, shares how it is working to automate the delivery of data into dashboards to reduce the burden of professionals looking at population data.

Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance's Kate Birch says using genomics to pick the right test for patients can result in getting five times the diagnoses at half the cost.

Machine learning tools are bringing about fundamental improvement in population health, according to Dr. Chris DeRienzo, chief quality officer at Mission Health.

E-VAL Saúde Director Luis Gustavo Kiatake says Brazil faces interoperability, privacy and infrastructure challenges, and its large population is making solutions more complex.

California is leading the way with new state privacy regulations. Are healthcare organizations prepared? CynergisTek EVP Angela Rivera discusses the privacy issue.

New Jersey state officials Shereef Elnahal and Nancy Pinkin discuss how prescription drug monitoring programs are forcing providers to put data into a state system for use in making informed care decisions.

TriHealth, winner of the HIMSS Davies Award, got all of its nursing and home care facilities documenting quality and utilization directly into its Epic EHR to determine the best outcomes and give patients solutions to make care decisions.