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Hawaii Health System Launches Population Health Analytics Collaboration

August 1, 2022 - Hawaii Health Network (HHN) and COPE Health Solutions (CHS) have announced a population health analytics partnership focused on providing value-based payment insights to enhance performance under a new Medicare risk arrangement for the clinically integrated network (CIN). A CIN is defined as “a formal group of healthcare providers working...

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by Jessica Kent

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by Jessica Kent

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by Jessica Kent

In the top 25 US counties with the highest prevalence of COVID-19, the majority of adults over age 65 are at high risk for severe illness if they contract the virus, according to an analysis from...

Geisinger Advances in CMS Artificial Intelligence Challenge

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