Navigating the intersections of population health and precision medicine
Healthcare IT News 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.
Population health and precision medicine have often been set against each other because of the inherent differences in their approaches to health management, but the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on both, highlighting some potential intersections that may not have been so apparent in the past. In this article I will look at some of these connections, and some solutions we already have in healthcare IT to take advantage of the opportunities in them.
Population health and precision medicine defined
When President Barack Obama announced during the 2015 State of the Union Address that...