The internet has made population health management a breeze in so many ways. Texting appointment reminders, emailing health information, and keeping patients engaged through online portals have...
Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Informatics and the Regenstrief Institute have been awarded nearly $700,000 to develop a method of using artificial intelligence as a...
The varied cluster of neurological, psychological, and physical symptoms clustered under the umbrella of autism often present slightly differently in each child, making it difficult for physicians and...
Google-backed personal genetic test company 23andMe made a splash this week in all the wrong ways after receiving a stern warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanding that the...
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is paying tobacco users enough for a nice dinner if they participate in a survey intended to garner a better...
In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Berg Pharmaceuticals will incorporate real-time...
Despite the critical information inherent in family history information and genetic profiles, increasingly accessible through analytics to provide tailored treatments for individualized patients, many...
This year’s Health 2.0 San Francisco Codeathon harnessed the power of the successful Blue Button data sharing initiative to bring a new suite of patient-facing tools to fruition in 36 hours or...
With cardiovascular disease accounting for 48% of all deaths worldwide, heart health is a lot more than just a local population health management initiative for a single hospital to explore. ...
There’s been plenty of talk about how great it is that patients are getting involved in their care, and how wonderful it is to compile a complete picture of a patient’s health by gathering...
Analytics may have great potential to help patients at the point of care, but before a physician can use clinical decision support to pick a therapy for a certain condition, he needs to have options to...
The 30-day preventable readmissions penalty instituted by CMS in 2012 might not be very popular with hospitals, but it has been effective in ramping up the focus on how to keep patients from coming back...
In order to reduce spending associated with preventable 30-day readmissions, hospitals are getting creative. From home monitoring robots that bring nurses to the beside to strapping FitBits around...
Population health management is a top priority for nearly two-thirds of hospital executives, according to a new survey by HealthLeaders Media. Sixty-one percent of hospitals have already...
With EHR and pharmacy data on 15 million patients and a growing antibiotic resistance problem waiting to be solved, athenahealth and Epocrates have put their big data under a microscope to add a new...
Anyone who has cringed after reading a news item about a careless data breach knows that patient privacy is nothing to take lightly. Since data analytics relies on collecting and storing huge...
No man is an island, wrote John Donne, and no health system can think of themselves as isolated anymore if they want to succeed in the new era of healthcare reform. Health information exchange...
