Population Health

With telemedicine evolving, efforts are underway to provide medical care to refugees in camps using a cloud-based electronic health record built on blockchain, says Brian de Francesca, CEO of Ver2 Digital Medicine.

As the world deals with aging populations, the Harvard professor and veteran CIO looks at how Japan has the urgency, vision and support to change care delivery models in ways that other countries would be smart to emulate.

The government has put in place an AI strategy to improve outcome for patients and clinical staff, says His Excellency Awadh Seghayer Al Ketbi, Assistant Undersecretary for Support Services at Ministry of Health & Prevention in the UAE.

Whether they’re used by millennials or baby boomers, we need new technologies to help people make more informed decisions about their health, SCAN Foundation Bruce Chernof says.

Health IT implementation best practices series examines in-depth what it takes to deploy today's most necessary technology and tools

With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy.

The CEO of the Alliance for Better Health and former deputy national coordinator talks EHR and interoperability challenges, the need for ROI, physicians' changing roles and why "social determinants" might not be the right term.