Population Health

The startups will gain access to de-identified claims data to help fine-tune projects aimed at enabling more timely interventions, eliminating barriers to care, improving health system navigation and more.

Two interoperability projects will get a funding boost from the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology, or LEAP in Health IT program, launched by the The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information IT.

At Health 2.0 this month, seven disparate companies will show how their apps and platforms are being put to work leveraging clinical and social data to drive innovations in care delivery.

Three representative vendors discuss why social determinants of health are important to population health management, and describe how their technologies help put these important data points to work.

Technology is no longer a barrier to at-home healthcare, says Susan Dentzer, president and CEO of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation.