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AI-Powered Pop Health and SDOH – The Good, The Bad and The Best Practices

HIT Consultant

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for making population health analytics more accurate and interventions more effective. They can also benefit from building on the best practices and hard-won wisdom developed from effective pop health interventions for SDOH communities in recent years.

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Inovalon Launches Race & Ethnicity Data Enrichment Offering for Health Plans

HIT Consultant

– What You Should Know: Inovalon , a provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare unveils a new data enrichment offering that allows health plans to improve the completeness and accuracy of race and ethnicity data for their members. Challenges Capturing Race & Ethnicity Data. Results/Outcomes.

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Racial Bias in Algorithms: How One State is Leading the Charge

NASHP

In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use, noting that “AI holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use.”

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Why Health Plans Are Vital to Health Equity

HIT Consultant

Disparities in the way medical professionals assess and treat pain in people of color, for example, have been the focus of many studies and reflect an unconscious bias among some medical professionals that prevents members from getting the care they need. There is also greater recognition that race and racism are risk factors for health.

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About This Resource Guide: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities

NASHP

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health : Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. There is growing consensus that accurate and complete collection of race and ethnicity data is a key element to addressing health equity.

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State Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CHW Community Health Worker. CHA/P Community Health Aid/ Practitioner. NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance. NIH National Institutes of Health. PH-MCO Physical Health Managed Care Organization. PHW Pandemic Health Worker.

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Back to the Future: Welcome to the Patient Centered Medical Home (Guest Post)

Health Dialog

When you get through, you’ll probably be squeezed into a busy schedule and spend hours waiting for a few minutes with your healthcare provider. Healthcare Organized Around Your Needs . Get ongoing help coordinating and keeping track of all your healthcare needs. Better Monitoring for Chronic Conditions and Preventive Care.