- OnlyBoth launches benchmarking engines, Benchmine for comparative analytics and reporting of population health measures in city neighborhoods.
- Benchmine.com, OnlyBoth’s benchmarking engine, can evaluate U.S. city neighborhoods based on behavioral risk factors, health outcomes, and preventive services for improved community engagement.
- To generate comparative insights, OnlyBoth uses source data from the CDC's 500 Cities: Local Data for Better Health, a project that targets 27
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Population Health Management (PHM) in Healthcare | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Top 5 Factors Impacting the US Population Health Management Market
The North American Population Health Management (PHM) reached the $4 billion milestone for the first time in 2018, despite growth slowing for the second consecutive year. With the US provider market consolidating and vertical integration increasing, vendors are having to adapt their offerings to keep up with changing needs. Here is our take on the five trends that will impact market growth over the coming years:
1 – A Market Still Maturing
As the market has evolved, providers are taking
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Singapore, Fitbit Collaborate on Population-Based Public Health Initiative
Fitbit collaborates with Singapore’s Health Promotion
Board (HPB) on population-based public health Initiative in Singapore to drive
better health outcomes at scale
Fitbit, today announced a new collaboration with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) on a healthy population health project in support of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative. The HPB is Singapore’s government agency that implements policy and programs to improve the nation’s health. The collaboration marks the first
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Quest Diagnostics to Contribute Biomarker Datasets to Support One Brave Idea Initiative
In a move to advance the ground-breaking work to identify coronary heart disease at the earliest transition from wellness to disease, Quest Diagnostics announced it will contribute biomarker implementation, population health analytics and a national lab platform as a pillar supporter of One Brave Idea, the research initiative co-founded by the American Heart Association (AHA) and Verily Life Sciences with significant support from AstraZeneca.The Burden of Cardiovascular DiseaseHeart disease is
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Cerner, Duke to Pilot Cerner Learning Network to Innovate Clinical Research Registries
Cerner Corporation has announced the development of the Cerner Learning Health Network to help clinicians more easily and efficiently gain health insights and guide care. As part of the development, Cerner and the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) have joined together to pilot the Cerner Learning Health Network and innovate clinical research registries in the process.Learning Registry by the DCRI Pilot ProjectThe pilot project and study, named the Learning Registry by the DCRI, will use
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AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Risk Models to Predict the Future Cost of Care
Traditionally, providers and health systems have relied on claims-based risk models, such as the CMS-HCC, ACG, and DxCG, which were built to forecast the risk of populations, but not at an individual level. While these models give a fairly good estimation of the risk of the population, they exhibit unsatisfactory estimation if used to predict the risk at an individual level.Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare data activation company, has taken a major step towards revolutionizing the way we identify
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Children’s Mercy Kansas City Taps Innovaccer to Advance Pediatric Value-Based Care
Children’s Mercy Integrated Care Solutions (CMICS), one of the most advanced pediatric health networks in the country and a wholly owned subsidiary of Children’s Mercy Kansas City, partnered with Innovaccer to power its pediatric population health management initiatives for Children’s Mercy’s Pediatric Care Network and Children’s Health Network. CMICS manages nearly 200,000 value-based patients, which is approximately 34% of the pediatric population in the Kansas City area and includes over 60
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Signify Health Launches Social Determinants of Health Solution Signify Community
Signify Health, a provider of technology-enabled in-home care and complex care management services, has announced the launch of Signify Community, the first and only social determinants of health (SDOH) solution that ties social interventions to quality, satisfaction, and financial outcomes—including 30% reductions in readmissions and 46% reductions in post-acute care spend for high-utilizer safety net populations.Understanding SDoHSocial determinants of health (SDOH) are complex and
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Applied Analytics: Making the Dream of Cost-Controlled Population Health a Reality
Ninety percent of a solution is accurately defining the problem, however, in healthcare, much like nearly every other industry, more time and energy is spent on fixing perceived symptoms rather than identifying root caU.S.es.
Today we will explore the contribution that applied analytics has made and continues to make on bending the dramatic U.S. healthcare cost curve. To do this well we will first explore the primary cost drivers (i.e. root caU.S.es), as to why the U.S. spends more on care than
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Top 5 Roadblocks to Population Health Management Adoption for Providers
The healthcare system is undergoing a transformation to restore the patient to the center of their care and to provide all patients with the highest quality care at the lowest possible price and with the best possible experience. Frequently the patient’s health journey is fragmented between multiple providers, an issue which must be addressed as a key part of any successful value-based care model.
Population health management (PHM) is an umbrella term that incorporates the multitude of payment
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