population health

Ensuring digital health solutions help, not harm

09:00 am February 16, 2023

A healthcare risk prediction algorithm used on more than 200 million people across the country was found to demonstrate racial bias. One-third of the top 100 hospitals in the U.S. were found to be using a tracking tool called Meta Pixel to collect and send patients’ personal health information to Facebook without their consent. Pulse oximeters – digital products that use infrared light beams to...

How operating like a start-up helped NZ's Orion Health become profitable again

By Adam Ang 12:38 am February 23, 2022

While a number of businesses were scrambling to protect themselves from the profound changes caused by the global pandemic, New Zealand's Orion Health was just in the process of releasing a timely solution that would help support overwhelmed health systems. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The health IT provider had to delist from the bourses of Australia and New Zealand in March 2019 and restructure its business...

Older woman speaking with the doctor about her concerns

How a Texas health system uses a data deep dive to find care gaps

By Emily Olsen 10:10 am January 28, 2022

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many patients delayed or missed health screenings and visits with providers as they sought to limit their exposure to the virus. According to the CDC, the number of women who received breast cancer screenings through the agency's early detection program declined by 87% in April 2020. The University of Texas Medical Branch, a safety-net system based in Galveston...