For the most part, healthcare buzzwords are associated with positive, forward-thinking change.
Terms like precision medicine, artificial intelligence, and chronic disease management imply productivity, effective transformation, and novel...
In care delivery today, it’s well understood that a patient’s social determinants of health have a profound impact on both physical well-being and healthcare spending – sometimes even...
Using genetic data from diverse populations could help researchers develop better risk prediction scores for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, according...
A population health app may allow payers to access permitted data and metrics on covered populations, potentially creating a foundation for pay-for-performance and assessment of value-based care.
In a...
Real-time data and location information showed that social environments can have long-term effects on physical health and well-being, according to a study published in the Journal of Health and Social...
Real-time data analytics and partnerships between researchers and healthcare providers will help boost heart health, according to a report published in Circulation by the American Heart Association...
Of the countless pieces of information needed to enhance population health, social determinants of health data are among the most critical.
While it’s widely understood that non-clinical factors...
The Johns Hopkins Health System and the University of Maryland Medical Center have received an award of $43 million over five years to improve population health and chronic disease management for...
Natural language processing tools can analyze pathology reports and identify individuals with HPV-related cancers, improving disease surveillance and treatment, according to a study published in JMIR...
Using a real-time data monitoring tool, researchers from Michigan Medicine discovered a 15 percent rise in suspected opioid overdose deaths since the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The tool...
Web-based predictive analytics methods identified strong correlations between Google search trends and COVID-19 hot spots in parts of the country – as early as 16 days prior to the first reported...
As organizations across the healthcare landscape seek to maintain or improve population health during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are turning to genetics to better understand patient outcomes...
Patient hesitancy to seek care during the pandemic created the perfect storm for delayed care. But big data and analytics are driving population health at Southwestern Health Resources to close care...
A deep learning tool can predict surges in COVID-19 cases for each US county with 64 percent accuracy, which is twice the accuracy of an untrained model, according to a study published in IEEE...
An analysis of US cell phone data showed that social distancing practices increased by over nine times from late January through late March and then decreased by about half through mid-June, according...
Boston University School of Public Health (SPH) and Sharecare have released their Community Well-Being Index (CWBI) state rankings report, which leverages social determinants of health data to measure...
County-level cell phone location data could enable public health officials to better monitor adherence to stay-at-home guidelines, as well as estimate the future spread of COVID-19, according to a...
Community Care Cooperative’s (C3’s) unique accountable care organization (ACO) model enables population health management to overcome the social determinants of health needs of their...
Gaps in early COVID-19 data led to significant underreporting of coronavirus cases, ultimately contributing to a large number of infections in the US by early March, a study published in the...
To further discover trends in COVID-19 mortality and the spread of the virus, researchers are increasingly leveraging geographic and population data for new insights on how the disease operates.
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