Community Health

How do population health, public health, community health differ?

March 25, 2024 - The rapid proliferation of value-based care arrangements, driven by electronic health record (EHR) adoption and the subsequent explosion of big data, has given providers the opportunity and the financial imperative to focus on delivering holistic, preventive healthcare to their patients.  Instead of simply addressing acute ailments as they...

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Researchers from Stony Brook University have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that uses social media posts to forecast opioid death rates more accurately than methods relying on...

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Allina Health, a Minnesota-based health system with 12 hospital campuses and over 90 clinics throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin, has joined the Guardian Research Network (GRN) to expand its...

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by Shania Kennedy

Duke Health and software company nference announced a collaboration aimed at accelerating research and improving patient care by leveraging the company’s advanced analytics platform. According...

Gateway Health Taps Population Health for Maternal Health Outcomes

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by Jessica Kent

Change Healthcare and Carnegie Mellon University’s Delphi Research Group have enhanced Delphi’s COVIDcast real-time data stream with COVID-19 claims information. Since April, Delphi has...

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by Emily Sokol, MPH

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Population Health Initiative to Improve Chronic Disease Management

by Jessica Kent

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by Jessica Kent

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by Jessica Kent

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by Jessica Kent

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