Population Health
Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau (FHB) announced on March 1, 2019 the establishment of the Primary Healthcare Office (PHO) to oversee and steer the development of primary healthcare services at the bureau level.
A new partnership with Holon Health enables real-time push of key patient information to network providers, regardless of their IT system, cluing them in to data they need to tackle care variation across the ACO.
Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases.
Robin Tenenbaum, IT director, El Rio Community Health Center, shares the importance of earlier screenings for detection of eye disease.
Harvard University’s Stan Shaw and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s John Halamka detail a new executive education joint venture between Harvard Medical School and HIMSS.
The focus should be on wellcare not healthcare, because finding a condition early results in better outcomes and better costs, says Nick van Terheyden, managing director of Incremental Healthcare.
The online resource from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services gives healthcare providers and communities better visibility into controlled substance prescribing patterns.
The challenge, created in collaboration with Children's Hospital Los Angeles, will focus on mental health, access to care and social determinants of health.
Info-blocking ruled the day, while APIs, FHIR, artificial intelligence and virtual reality were also prominent themes at this year’s Global Conference.
The contest aims to influence positive change by strengthening outcomes and cutting costs, the American Hospital Association said.