The digital health space refers to the integration of technology and health care services to improve the overall quality of health care delivery. It encompasses a wide range of innovative and emerging technologies such as wearables, telehealth, artificial intelligence, mobile health, and electronic health records (EHRs). The digital health space offers numerous benefits such as improved patient outcomes, increased access to health care, reduced costs, and improved communication and collaboration between patients and health care providers. For example, patients can now monitor their vital signs such as blood pressure and glucose levels from home using wearable devices and share the data with their doctors in real-time. Telehealth technology allows patients to consult with their health care providers remotely without having to travel to the hospital, making health care more accessible, particularly in remote or rural areas. Artificial intelligence can be used to analyze vast amounts of patient data to identify patterns, predict outcomes, and provide personalized treatment recommendations. Overall, the digital health space is rapidly evolving, and the integration of technology in health

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Population Health: What is it ?

Mentioning population health to most clinicians will bring forth a 'glazed look' to their faces. Population health used to be called epidemiology.  Most clinicians facing an individual patient with their specific problems don't see any relationship between population health and the patient sitting before them.

However population health has become a new buzzword created in the noise of the Affordable Care Act, and proposed Accountable Care Organizations.

A Success Story for Igniting the Power of Analytics to Drive Population Health



Where does the data come from for  population health management ?


Partner's Health collaborated with  Health Catalyst to extract data from several of their systems to analyze their data in order to build a population health management system.

For most hospitals and startup Accountable Care Organizations this example could serve as a model.

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