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Health plans can begin by collecting data on race and ethnicity from their members, says Leah Dewey, VP of clinical and consumer engagement operations at Cotiviti.
Socially at-risk patients need equity in their care. The HEI is to incentivize contracts for plans to perform better for these patients, says Christie Teigland, vice president of research science and advanced analytics at Inovalon.
CMS should get more information from Medicare users to help address their health disparities, suggests Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
The cochairs of FAST Deepak Sadagopan and Duncan Weatherston say FHIR standards provide a consistent pathway to address the variability and costs of payer and provider data exchange and achieve interoperability goals.
HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf says health equity requires designs that are tolerant of more basic infrastructure and that balance data access versus data protection.
Dr. Oscar C. Marroquin, chief healthcare data and analytics officer at the UPMC health system, discusses numerous AI algorithms used to improve care delivery, and a five-year agreement with Microsoft to modernize the clinical analytics infrastructure.
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Rowland Illing, DM, chief medical officer and director of international public sector health for Amazon Web Services, discusses how AWS can help Latin American health systems derive actionable insights from their healthcare data.
AI has the potential to search through volumes of EHR data to find clinical trial candidates, says Robert Stillman, director of clinical and research informatics at the Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center.
The Digital Therapeutic Alliance is one organization working to encourage tech vendors to address health equity throughout their product life cycles, says Jessica Hauflaire, COO of the DTA.
The new Community Care Outcomes Maturity Model helps organizations improve outcomes for the non-acute care that most people use each day, says Natasha Ramontal, digital health strategist for community outcomes and analytics for HIMSS.