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How advanced analytics can help solve SDOH problems

Healthcare It News

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on longstanding issues with healthcare inequities due to underlying social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, a lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to 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

I lead our analytic development team, which uses data about our members to predict who would most benefit from Health Dialog’s population health management and medication adherence programs. Our goal is to make sure that the people who are most in need of healthcare support get the help they need. Healthcare Analytics.