Population and Public Health

There are four elements that make up the next stage in the evolution of population health, says Sita Kapoor, CIO at HealthEC.

This week's top stories include the AstraZeneca vaccine showing 79% efficacy but facing questions about using outdated information, Everlywell forming a new at-home lab testing subsidiary, and the VA reviewing its EHR modernization program.

LifeBridge Health CIO Tressa Springmann shares how the health system has adapted its EHR and IT systems for complex COVID-19 vaccine scheduling and administration – and how it plans to capitalize on shifting provider-consumer paradigms.

Dr. Azizi Seixas explains why communities of color are at greater risk of suffering severe consequences, including secondary ones, from the pandemic.

Symmetric Health Solutions CEO Rich Kucera and Northern Light's Matt Marston discuss how COVID-19 has affected the supply chain as well as Northern Light's successful vaccine rollout.

The health tech company teamed up with New York State's Department of Public Health to distribute the vaccines. 

Deep Dive: As NASA prepares to send astronauts to Mars in the not so distant future, innovators look at what space health could teach us about human health in general.

This week's top stories include the ClassPass app providing members with the most convenient locations to receive vaccinations, glitches in New Jersey's Microsoft-powered vaccine registration portal, and COVID-19 costs catching up to insurers.

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, director of clinical analytics at Linguamatics, shares how machine learning can help flag troubling patterns and improve systems moving forward.

This week's top stories include Google Cloud joining the national COVID-19 vaccination effort with a new distribution tool, the feds sending one million COVID-19 vaccine doses to 6,500 pharmacies, and a security breach at Montefiore Medical Center.