Fierce Health Technology June 17, 2021
The past couple of years have seen the U.S. healthcare system bow under the weight of two pandemics that could be mitigated with the intelligent use of individual and population health data.
COVID-19 placed a clear strain on the health system’s infrastructure, particularly when it came to public health agencies’ ability to collect and analyze patient data from a wealth of different sources, leaders from CommonSpirit Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield and healthcare AI vendors said Wednesday during Reuters’ Digital Health 2021 virtual event.
At the same time, structural racism and other issues related to social determinants of health have exacerbated outcomes across certain patient populations while driving up costs for individuals, health organizations and the broader public, said Alisahah...