Population Health

Congress funding for medical research programs to fight the opioid epidemic, and a boost for healthcare IT.

It doesn’t need express written consent to use the technology for “essential” alerts, the HIE’s CEO explains, and the result is better care.

Naila Siddiqui Kamal, MD, senior lecturer at Imperial College London, discusses ways doctors can rise above the worries tied to IT adoption and instead embrace the ways that digital technology can assist them in caring for our populations.

Waheed Arian, founder of Arian TeleHEAL, discusses how specialists working for his charity use smartphones, and platforms like Skype, to connect with people in areas were conflict makes it difficult to seek medical attention.

Nav Chana, chair of England's National Association of Primary Care, lays out the model's framework and speaks about the digital backbone needed to support clinical decision making.

Taavi Kotka, former CIO for the Estonian government, discusses Estonia's major e-health feat and look at conditions that made it possible to create a countrywide EHR.

In the future, patients will have more access to their own data and more communication channels with their extended care team.

Charles Alessi, MD, chief clinical officer for HIMSS International, discusses the ways HIMSS is connecting global healthcare systems through education, partnerships and adoption models to advance care globally.

Richard Corbridge, chief digital and information officer for Leeds Teaching, and Daniel Ray, director of data science for NHS Digital, discuss the tangible ways healthcare data is advancing population health for the United Kingdom.

With one in four people lacking the skills to use digital tools effectively, NHS Digital is trying to raise awareness around the importance of addressing exclusion levels.