Population and Public Health

Dr. Bonita Coe, founder and CEO of Best Health for Your Life Consulting, discusses her HIMSS25 Health Equity Forum talk on using technology, including digital monitoring, to ensure optimal health outcomes and inclusive patient care.

Also, IIT Madras recently launched a cancer genome database.

The virtual care organization said the Drug Enforcement Administration's draft framework would impose on clinical decision-making. It also flagged compliance impracticalities around provider exclusions and arbitrary requirements.

Providing individuals with access to technology-based clinical engagement programs that integrate human health coaching, personalized content and data insights can reduce health risks, says Avid Health CEO Tom Allen and COO Laura Tan.

A Florida hospital is leveraging a unique radio frequency identification (RFID) solution to keep track of medications used to support their hospital at home program.

Using the HIMSS Digital Health Index, Missouri is taking evidence about public health agency digital maturity statewide to invest in data-driven population health strategies, says Anne Snowdon, who will share more about the initiative at HIMSS25.

The vendor will be introducing ambient listening and medical scribe technologies, and will showcase artificial intelligence that extracts data from documents in various formats and new population health tools for value-based care.

Planning and funding director Dr Dale Bramley will be interim chief executive.

Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and other healthcare organizations have launched the National Food is Medicine Network of Excellence to share best practices and measure the health outcomes and costs of produce prescription programs.

Spatial intelligence, real-time monitoring and predictive analytics are helping San Francisco fire stations and firefighters lower rates of occupational diseases, says Emilio Goldenhersch, MKThink enterprise director.