Population Health Management

What Are the Benefits of Predictive Analytics in Healthcare?

February 6, 2024 - Predictive analytics in healthcare plays a major role in improving care delivery and patient outcomes. By leveraging historical data, this type of analytics allows health systems to gauge what’s likely to happen in the future, both from an operational and clinical perspective. This capability is particularly useful for healthcare...


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Using Analytics Tools to Drive Care Coordination for Wildfire Victims

by Shania Kennedy

Climate change is a public health crisis, threatening human health by increasing the frequency and intensity of natural disasters like hurricanes, tropical storms, floods, heatwaves, wildfires, and more. These events have significant...

Explaining the Basics of Patient Risk Scores in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

As medicine advances and healthcare organizations move toward value-based care, providers and health systems are prioritizing population health and preventive care. But to prevent disease and adverse outcomes for patients, health systems...

Top Data Analytics Tools for Population Health Management

by Shania Kennedy

Effective population health management requires collecting, processing, and analyzing large amounts of patient data, making data analytics tools key for any population health initiative. Population health is often conceptualized based on...

Value-Based Care Platform to Bolster Population Health Partnership

by Shania Kennedy

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) will leverage Curation Health’s risk adjustment platform to improve population health and reduce...

NY Health Center Launches Population Health Management Partnership

by Shania Kennedy

New York-based federally qualified health center Morris Heights Health Center (MHHC) has launched a partnership with population health management technology company the Garage, under which the health...

Population Health Management Tool Improves Primary Care Outcomes in VBC Model

by Shania Kennedy

A new study conducted by health information exchange (HIE) HEALTHeLINK and the Milbank Memorial Fund has found that a population health management and analytics tool contributed to better patient...

MT Health System Implements Artificial Intelligence Tool for Diabetes Care

by Shania Kennedy

Montana-based Billings Clinic has partnered with DreaMed Diabetes to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision support tool, which will allow its providers to remotely treat...

KY Health System Strikes Analytics Collab to Enhance Specialty Pharmacy Services

by Shania Kennedy

University of Louisville Health (UofL Health) has entered into a collaboration with population health analytics company Loopback Analytics that aims to use advanced data insights to enhance the health...

HHS Awards $90M to Health Centers to Boost Health Equity Via Data Modernization

by Shania Kennedy

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded approximately $90 million in American Rescue Plan funding to nearly 1,400 community health centers as part of an ongoing effort to advance...

Experts Propose Quality Measures for Veterans at High Risk for Adverse Outcomes

by Shania Kennedy

In a consensus statement published this week in JAMA Network Open, a panel of 14 health experts and veterans identified what quality measure concepts are important to improve care for veterans at high...

Hawaii Health System Launches Population Health Analytics Collaboration

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Racial Gaps Remain Despite Overall Jump in Life Expectancy

by Mark Melchionna

Researchers found that over the past 20 years, the overall average life expectancy in the US increased, but life expectancy for the Black population remained lower than that of the White...

Experts Call for Real-Time, Comprehensive Data to Address Opioid Crisis

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers argue that current issues around opioid overdose data prevent public health officials from getting a clear picture of the opioid crisis, leading them to fight the epidemic...

Maryland Implements New eCQM Data Reporting Initiative

by Shania Kennedy

Maryland has partnered with its state-designated health information exchange (HIE), called CRISP, and healthcare data management company Medisolv to implement an initiative that would require all...

NIH Awards $68M to AI Company as Part of Antiviral Drug Development Collab

by Shania Kennedy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced that PostEra, a biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for preclinical drug discovery, has been awarded $68 million as part of the...

How Big Data Analytics Can Support Preventive Health

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The healthcare sector is an increasingly complex system that incorporates various stakeholders outside of clinicians and patients. This complexity generates significant amounts of data across the continuum of care. To promote health...

Deep Learning Model Able to Detect Emotion Related to COVID-19

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A new study published in Applied Soft Computing found that the content of emergency response phone calls could be analyzed and classified by a deep learning model based on emotion detection, and then...

HHS to Pour $90M Into Data-Driven Efforts to Combat Health Disparities

by Shania Kennedy

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the availability of $90 million from the American Rescue Plan to fund data-driven efforts by Health Resources and Services Administration...

CDC to Extend Partnership Supporting Disease Monitoring, Response

by Shania Kennedy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and software company Palantir Technologies Inc. announced an extension of their 10-year partnership to address outbreak response and disease...