Population Health

NHS, King's Fund, transformation
By Dr Pritesh Mistry 01:38 am December 14, 2021
Digital technologies are constantly changing. Hardware is getting faster and more efficient. Software can harness these hardware improvements to improve the functionality of technology. And so healthcare staff and citizens will hopefully have access to tools that allow tasks to be completed quicker, or more intuitively ...
By Craig Settles 10:31 am December 13, 2021
Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality-of-life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity.
By Craig Settles 05:16 pm November 18, 2021
The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion.
People in a waiting room
By Sam Hanna 10:45 am August 31, 2021
This is the second article in a series regarding process-based opportunities as the healthcare industry begins to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic.
By Sam Hanna 12:22 pm August 24, 2021
A new weekly series looks beyond the pandemic and explores strategies for driving lasting, IT-enabled operational and business improvements across healthcare.
Nurse administers COVID-19 vaccine
By Joyoti Goswami 09:43 am April 15, 2021
The right technology applications can turn the COVID-19 vaccination program into a game-changer for the healthcare industry.
Woman in mask checks smartphone for update
By Glenn Fala 03:26 pm April 06, 2021
The development of PennOpen Pass, a symptom tracker and exposure alert system, offers a lesson on how challenging factors can focus the mind, enabling development of new tools that meet communities' needs.
DTAC, NHSX
By Sam Shah 06:05 am March 09, 2021
What still seems to be missing from the criteria is any assessment of the evidence of how well a product works and to what extent, says Prof Sam Shah, chief medical strategy officer, Numan.
By Bogi Eliasen 09:54 am March 03, 2021
A bold vision for data-driven Latin American health, illustrated by a Peruvian pilot.
Germany, digital maturity
By Armin Scheuer 10:12 am March 02, 2021
Germany will soon be embarking on a national project to assess the digital maturity of its 2,000 hospitals. If it focuses on understanding the impact on clinicians and patients, it can catch up with the world’s digital health leaders, says Armin Scheuer, VP international business development, HIMSS.