Population Health

Native leaders should work to ensure culturally relevant education and care for their populations, says Dr. Donald Warne, codirector of the Center for Indigenous Health at Johns Hopkins and a HIMSS24 Changemaker.

As health systems prioritize population health management, disparate factors such as patient engagement, social determinants of health and AI-enabled decision support all have roles to play, says Brian Dixon, research scientist at Regenstrief Institute.

Securing transportation and other needed resources for patients through text messages is one way to ensure health equity for the underserved, says Dr. Emily C. Webber, CMIO at Indiana University Health and 2024 Changemaker Award winner.  

Through volunteer work after the 2020 Beirut explosion, Marina El Khawand, founder and president of Medonations, describes how getting a patient in dire need of her inhaler evolved into starting an NGO that crowdsources medications for Lebanese patients.

Payers will not only need to comply with the 2024 CMS Final Rule pertaining to materials and content, but they will need to go the extra mile because it affects star ratings, says Ernie Crawford, president and CEO of Crawford Technologies.  

Eduardo Iglesias, founder and CEO of VivaWell, talks about how VivaWell’s healthcare plans prioritizing illness prevention are being offered as an employee benefit by Latin American corporations and are already demonstrating ROI.

From 29 to 31 May 2024, health leaders and professionals from Europe and beyond will gather in Rome at La Novula to learn, connect and innovate.

The tech giant looks across the entire product development life cycle to ensure health equity in the AI models and tools it makes available to digital health companies, explains Dr. Ivor Horn, Google's chief health equity officer.  

As part of its Vision 2030 launch, the health system said that adopting new clinical and operational applications represents a "significant leap forward" in digital transformation.