Maybe the initial challenge of population health is deciding exactly what that phrase means.Well before it became a catchphrase in health IT, population health was the province of academics who devised predictably academic definitions like “… the aggregate health outcome of health-adjusted life expectancy (quantity and quality) of a group of individuals, in an economic framework that balances the relative marginal returns from the multiple determinants of health.”Originally created by and
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GE Healthcare Acquires Novia Strategies to Expand Clinical Consulting Capabilities
GE Healthcare has acquired Novia Strategies, a healthcare clinical consulting firm focused on delivering critical outcomes in hospital operations. The acquisition will expand GE Healthcare’s clinical consulting capabilities to help healthcare organizations meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare for their patients. Originally founded under the name of InnoVia Health by Nancy Lakier in 1995, Novia Strategies help hospitals and health systems improve
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Why Applied Artificial Intelligence Is Here to Replace Healthcare Analytics
Editor's Note: Gurjeet Singh, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Ayasdi, an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform lets you create intelligent business applications and make fundamental discoveries with big data. The combination of electronic medical records, financial data, clinical data, and advanced analytics promised to revolutionize healthcare. It hasn’t happened. The common excuse is that healthcare wasn’t really prepared for the enormity and complexity of the data challenge and that,
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Stanford Researchers Develop Algorithm to Diagnose Heart Arrhythmias
Stanford researchers from the Machine Learning Group have developed an algorithm that is able to outperform cardiologists in arrhythmia detection, according to research published on arXiv. The new deep learning algorithm can diagnose 14 types of heart rhythm defects, called arrhythmias and has the ability to sort through data from rural locations where people do not have routine access to cardiologists. Traditionally, patients suspected to have an arrhythmia will often get an electrocardiogram
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Children’s National Health System Earns HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6 Award
Children’s National Health System recently announced that it has been recognized by HIMSS Analytics for reaching Stage 6 status on the EMR Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM), an achievement reached by only 32 percent of the nation’s more than 5,400 hospitals. Serving children and families in the Washington area for nearly 150 years, , is a renowned leader in pediatric medicine and recognized globally for the development and implementation of innovative treatments."The HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation
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Cerner CEO & Chairman Neal Patterson Passes Away from Cancer
Neal Patterson, co-founder, CEO, and chairman of Cerner passed away on Sunday, due to unexpected complications that arose after a recent recurrence of a previously disclosed cancer. He was 67 years old.Cerner Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board Cliff Illig has been named chairman and interim CEO."This is a profound loss. Neal and I have been partners and collaborators for nearly 40 years, and friends for longer than that," Illig said in a statement. "Neal loved waking up every morning at
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Apixio Launches AI-Driven Code Compliance Auditor App for Health Plans
Apixio, a data science company for healthcare has announced the launch of Compliance Auditor, a first-of-its-kind software platform that uses AI to help health plans audit 100% of their coding work in a fraction of the time. Compliance Auditor makes it possible for insurers to validate the accuracy and compliance of their risk adjustment chart coding efforts, paving the way toward fair and complete reimbursement. Powered by Apixio’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform, Compliance Auditor
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Arizona Care Network Taps par8o to Manage Referrals For Over 170k Patients
Arizona Care Network (ACN) is a physician-led, physician-governed clinically integrated network has announced a strategic partnership with referral management provider par8o. As part of the partnership, ACN’s primary care doctors will utilize par80’s cloud-based software platform to refer patients to ACN specialists who share their commitment to improving care and outcomes. par8o's Care Compass dashboard produces a selection of in-network specialists based on each patient's insurance among other
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Cleveland Clinic Lands $3.4M NIH Grant to Develop Prediction Tool for Epilepsy Surgery
Cleveland Clinic has been awarded a $3.4 million 5-year grant from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a prediction tool for individual outcomes in epilepsy surgery. Led by Lara Jehi, M.D., the project is five-year collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute's Epilepsy Center and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute's Quantitative Health Sciences team with Mayo Clinic and the University of Campinas.Epilepsy currently affects 3 million people in the
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Fitango Health, Intersystems Partner to Develop Post-Acute Care Solutions
Fitango Health, an innovative provider of patient health management has partnered with Intersystem technologies to develop post-acute solutions for patients. Fitango Health has developed a Patient Health Management app, a post-discharge platform designed to improve recovery outcomes and reduce costs for providers and patients in the home setting.The platform enables patients to be guided through their recovery process through interactive action plans and supports a consistent connection to their
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