Population Health & Value-Based Care

Tamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN Katie Korte Rodney Gardner, RN Tamra Lavengood RN, BSN, MSN, CPC+/SIM Coordinator Mercy Primary Care, Katie Korte, Community Health Advocate, and Rodney Gardner, RN, Care Coordinator, Centura Health.  Looking at a patient’s "Social Determinants of Health" has been gaining traction as a focus for whole person healthcare.  Rightly so; in […]

Ken Lee Carol Chouinard Ken Lee, SVP & CIO, Centura Health, and Carol Chouinard, VP,  Optum Advisory Services.  Historically, CIOs were limited to operating back-office applications; these days, CIOs and IT leaders are being asked to operate 24/7, mission-critical solutions. This is because technology downtime risks the organization’s reputation, financial performance, and ability to effectively […]

Christopher Denny, MD, UCLA Health.  The UCLA Institute of Precision Health is currently engaged in an effort to genotype 50,000 patients each year for the next three years.  To accrue sufficient patient specimens, a workflow consisting of electronic universal consent followed by retrieval of remnant blood specimens, has been created.  Genotype data are processed into […]