Population health tech experts from Enli Health, Epic and Optum showcase best practices for making the IT work best at healthcare provider organizations.
Healthcare provider organizations across the country have been spending more time focusing on population health management. It is of utmost importance to take care of individual patients, but focusing on the health of populations, especially those with chronic conditions, can enhance care quality and cost efficiency.
Information technology plays a huge role in population health. There’s no way to manually deal with the huge amounts of data generated by a pop health program, and advanced analytics are needed to glean the insights necessary to improve care delivery for populations.
It’s one thing to have the technology in place to facilitate a population health management program. It’s quite another to ensure that technology is operating at peak performance-levels and tailored to the needs of individual healthcare provider organizations.
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Here, three population health IT experts – from Enli Health Intelligence, Epic Systems and Optum – offer some perspective and best practices for optimizing technology to help meet their pop health goals.
The impact of digital technology
In the past, healthcare CIOs were limited to operating back-office applications. Now, they’re tasked with operating 24/7, mission-critical systems.
Being a good technology operator is not enough anymore. The CIO must understand the impact of digital technology in every aspect of their organization – because it impacts reputation, financial performance, and the ability to effectively and efficiently deliver care, said John Kontor, senior vice president, Optum Advisory Services, a part of population health, health IT and analytics vendor Optum.
Source: Healthcare IT News