Bill Siwicki

CareSkore tech uses predictive analytics with the goal of improving clinical and financial outcomes through personalized, real-time interventions in diverse patient populations.  

In conjunction with the Keystone Health Information Exchange, Geisinger Health System sends clinicians push HL7 ORU messages in a population health management program to identify at-risk patients and reduce readmissions.

Hospital IQ’s operational planning and management platform will enable Allscripts clients to save money, reduce uncertainty and improve the quality of care, Allscripts says.

Health and Humans Services head Sylvia Burwell pressed for urgent action as her department’s dwindling resources will make it harder to help states with mosquito control and for the National Institutes of Health to conduct trials of Zika vaccines.

The Colorado network’s South Denver unit is giving patients an app for house calls and assigning care coordinators to help navigate the system. And it’s already seeing Triple Aim results. 

OpenNotes Executive Director Catherine DesRoches said the growing number of patients able to access their medical records online is advancing the shift toward transparency between doctors and patients.  

As providers, payers and patients align in what Schoenberg calls a national play for delivering real-time care anywhere patients and providers can connect, telemedicine stands ready to revolutionize healthcare the way Amazon has rewritten retail.

Government guidance and best practices will only get hospitals so far. Both value-based care and population health require a stronger-than-ever orientation toward teamwork and that includes patients as well as communities.

Individuals’ data may have been compromised by hackers that cracked in via food and beverage payment systems and infiltrated patient healthcare data.

Participants include volunteers at three sites within the United States, including the NIH Clinical Center in Maryland.