HealthTech Magazines August 2, 2022
By Dr. Simita Mishra, AVP/Population Health Informatics Leader and Raman Vig, Community Remote Care Program Manager, Northwell Health
The mission of the Northwell Population Health Informatics team is to improve population health and community outcomes through informatics and underlying technology. The COVID-19 pandemic expedited the need for some of this technology such as digital remote care and drew more focus to population health initiatives. While it shouldn’t take a pandemic to raise the importance of population health in the minds of the general public, that is exactly what happened in these last two years. The pandemic has allowed this focus on population health to be consistent for a significant amount of time, widening a pathway for us to learn through...