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Put simply, yes. Poverty and health have been linked and in many cases create a chain reaction of very expensive health costs that could have been prevented upon an early visit to a medic at the first signs of illness. Recently, NPR sat down with Michael Doody, a 62-year-old fraud investigator who remembers the 90sRead more

Looking back at the history of Population Health Management (PHM), it’s hard to tell where it all got started. Some portions of history will refer back to pre-20th Century care in the advanced countries such as France and Britain.  In the United States, care for what happens to a patient inside the clinic and post-visitRead more

Population Health Management (PHM) is going from concept to reality across our health systems.  The fact is, PHM can be practiced in many forms.  Health systems can start with the implementation of their own EMR/EHR.  Then, using data from patient visits, mitigate or preempt further complications, based on a patient’s predictive needs, and the likelihoodRead more

For many hospitals, the first genuinely serious encounter with healthcare IT occurred when the Federal Government mandated that all hospitals should implement and run an EMR/EHR.  This process kicked off in 2009 with the passing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act under President Barack Obama and has been running at a frenetic pace sinceRead more

While 95% of the nation’s hospitals and health systems have made the transition to adapting an EMR system, one practice has dropped their implemented EHR and reverted to paper logging. One of the biggest complaints post implementation is the adaptation curve between physician to patient attention versus physician to patient to computer screen attention.  OnceRead more

A few weeks ago, Jas Grewal created a list for Becker’s Hospital Review on the topic of Population Health Management. Leveraging Real-Time Analytics with Big Data Expansion of Predictive Analytics Depth in Artificial Intelligence, Leading to Automation of Workflows Embracing Lean Operations to Enable Efficient Care and Cost Reduction Connecting with The Internet of Things (IoT)Read more