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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

Healthcare IT Today

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. Data collection is undergoing more and more scrutiny by the press and legislators.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics

Health Populi

This past weekend, and for the second time, I had the privilege and opportunity to be a panelist for the perennial hackathon meet-up of Nurse Hack 4 Health , sponsored by Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Sonnier, and DevUp. This round, the hackathon attracted hundreds of nurses from at least 20 countries and 30 U.S.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

The on-demand, self-service approach to analytics, more commonly associated with the financial services industry and its Bloomberg terminal, will become broadly accessible to hospitals, payers, and life sciences companies. David Navarro, Senior Director of Data Science at Harmony Healthcare IT. What does this mean?

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What HealthyThinker Is Thinking About Health at CES 2020

Health Populi

At #CES2020, exhibitors in the health/care ecosystem will go well beyond wearable devices for tracking steps and heart rate. I’ve also scheduled get-togethers with pharma and life science folks, health plan people, and execs from consumer health companies.

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

Health Populi

One of the most heartbreaking aspects of this concerning trend is a link to pregnant women and newborns. But AI also can mine data from sources beyond the medical claim that mashed together profile people in ways that can be used to bias business choices in the interest of cost-saving or simply-put, prejudice. s, birthday. .

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AI Adoption in Healthcare Requires Better Approaches to Patient Data

Healthcare IT Today

Building great AI models in healthcare and life sciences requires lots of data that is diverse, well-labeled, and spans across different patient types. Synthetic Data to Examine Disease Trends. She studied molecular and cell biology, public health, and business at UC Berkeley and UCLA.