Community health

HIMSS identifies provisions that represent breakthroughs for health technology programs that will better support providers’ efforts in delivering care.

Small facilities face a variety of challenges in providing care to rural residents; the use technology is just one of the strategies that can keep them open.

Commentary: An effort to organize four health systems into one Accountable Care Organization collaborative used advanced tools and analytics to stratify populations, track outcomes and improve care coordination. But initial efforts also exemplified the historical divide between the physical and behavioral healthcare delivery systems, which can result in siloed and suboptimal care.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System, like many large health organizations, has poured enormous resources into building an enterprisewide data infrastructure. With the foundation in place, the health system known as Penn Medicine is embarking on a big data project to expand its information horizons and develop predictive analytics to diagnose deadly illnesses before they occur.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continued its transparency initiative as 2015 ended, releasing files with data covering home health agency performance in 2013. Who will use it, and will it provide value to the industry?

While population health management initiatives are becoming more popular, many healthcare organizations are undertaking these efforts on their own without a population health vendor-provided IT solution, according to HIMSS Analytics.