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How advanced analytics can help solve SDOH problems

Healthcare It News

However, many in health IT contend that healthcare provider organizations can use advanced analytics to surface key insights about their patient populations and take action to ensure all patients have equal access to high-quality care. She is a believer in analytics helping to solve SDOH problems. That's quite significant.

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CIOs' 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies

Healthcare It News

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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How cost-effective are workplace wellness programs? The debate over lifestyle management vs. disease management in wellness programs

Health Dialog

While lifestyle management wellness programs - aimed at reducing risk factors such as smoking and obesity - typically show less immediate results, disease management programs – focused on preventing high-cost hospitalizations and ER visits - show a stronger return on investment (ROI). .

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Improving Population Health Management, One Data Point at a Time

Health Dialog

We take all of that information into account, and through our predictive modeling tools, we are able to identify those who are less likely to pick up their medications in the future. Healthcare Analytics. Then we identify which factors may be correlated with whether people pick up their meds.