Featured Population Health Articles

41. Terra Nova: Entering The Era Of Patient-Centric Healthcare IT 7/29/2016

    One way or another, healthcare IT will shift from the service-centric approach to the patient-centric one, most likely with CRM as its tech core. By Natallia Babrovich, Business Analyst at ScienceSoft

42. Value-Based Care Payments Focuses More Attention On Population Health Management 7/21/2016

    New suite of products helps healthcare providers address crucial population health issues. By Christine Kern, contributing writer

43. Harnessing The Power Of The Browser To Improve Care 7/18/2016

    As mobile technology becomes engrained into almost all facets of life and business, the rise of mobile healthcare, or mHealth, is not surprising. By Ilan Paretsky, Vice President of Marketing, Ericom Software

44. IoT And Healthcare: Is Your Body The Next Target For Hackers 6/28/2016

    Healthcare cybersecurity primarily focuses on protecting breaches of patients’ private medical data and, more recently, on preventing ransomware attacks that can lock health professionals out of their systems and make electronic medical records inaccessible. However, as wearable and implantable medical devices are developed and grow in popularity, another concern arises: the potential for hackers to actually attack the body of patients.

45. Enhancing Patient Education And Care Transitions 6/22/2016

    Pharmacy expertise central to successful strategy. High performing hospitals and health systems recognize the value of a top-of-license approach to allocating clinical resources. This strategy ensures patients are paired with the right expertise at the right time — ultimately resulting in optimal outcomes.

46. Cost Transparency Is Not Enough — Engagement Is Critical 6/21/2016

    It’s more imperative than ever for health plans and employers to offer not only cost transparency tools, but support them with proactive engagement. Engagement is key to driving utilization of cost transparency and provider search and, thus, cost savings. Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association did a study on cost transparency and its results. They found that, rather than helping members spend less and save, health spending actually increased for the member populations. The word that was not mentioned? Engagement.

47. Chronic Disease Is Healthcare's Rising-Risk 6/17/2016

    The move to value based care is no longer a question of if or when, it’s now. As health systems prepare for impending change in their revenue, they must decide if they are going to lead, follow or resist the transformation at their own peril. Leading Health Systems are already partnering with value-based payers and creating shared and full-risk contracts. New leadership teams, focused on Population Health Management (PHM) are essential to success under new alternative payment models that reward maintaining a healthy population. As a competitive business necessity, health systems must continue the acquisition of value-based care payer contracts. Those contracts also include the acquisition of significant financial risk. PHM’s task is to identify, track and manage the real drivers of costs across their populations and in doing so, manage the risk. By Phil Trotter, leader, Exercise is Medicine, Felipe Lobelo, associate professor of Global Health, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Ashley John Heather, co-founder, Off The Scale

48. More Ways To Pay Bring More Security Concerns: 3 Tips To Enhance Payment Protection 6/7/2016

    Consumerism and increasing patient responsibility are driving healthcare organizations to expand their options for patients to make payments. As providers look to new payment options to meet consumer demands and increase their collections, they need to carefully consider payment security.

49. 5 Strategies For Using Analytics In Population Health 6/6/2016

    I recently had the opportunity to speak at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) about the role data plays in emerging population health strategies. Patient data has the ability to truly impact the way healthcare functions — for both patient outcomes and provider bottom lines — but the industry is often at an impasse on how to actually use data to derive meaningful insights that lead to improved care and healthier populations. By George Dealy, Vice President of Healthcare Applications at Dimensional Insight

50. Navigating The Patient Engagement Equation 4/29/2016

    There’s a new sense of urgency in the healthcare community when it comes to expanding patient engagement, and for good reason. Evidence continues to quantify the strong link between more involved patients and improved outcomes. In addition, expanded patient engagement is essential to a provider’s financial viability under a pay-for-performance model.