Population Health

HIMSS provides support and community and is advancing EHR initiatives to connect Tribal health systems.

The Alliance for Advancing Rural Healthcare includes Arcadia, Castlight Health, Covista, Mission Mobile Medical, Telemedicine.com, TruBridge and Walgreens.

National University Hospital CMIO Dr Ling Zheng Jye outlines the changes necessary for the National University Health System to effectively use data to bring forth innovations in quality and patient safety.

While global research shows a direct link between advanced digital maturity and better health and safety outcomes, a HIMSS26 session will dive into what still needs to be done on the frontiers of healthcare transformation. 

Healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison explains how IT outage recovery, downtime and disruption costs some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute" and compromises patient safety and care quality.

Revenue growth will come from clinical outcomes versus document mechanics, says Steve Mongelli, president at mPulse.

At HIMSS26, Greg O'Neill, director of patient and family health education at ChristianaCare, discusses increasing health literacy to bring changes to medical practice and help patients understand their medications.

The plans are committing to adopt value-driven payment structures that expand tech-enabled care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions.

This comes as it recently extended the screening age to 74 and started transitioning to a population-based digital register.

The partnership will allow Mira's hormone test results to be compared with Oura Ring data on sleep, temperature and readiness, enabling trend tracking.