Population health management encompasses a range of activities aimed at improving outcomes and reducing costs for different groups of patients. To better understand how organizations are approaching population health management, eHealth Initiative surveyed provider organizations in 2016. The survey questions addressed how health information technology supports patient engagement, analytics, and care management. 

Mark Segal, Ph.D., Representative of eHI’s Policy Steering Committee

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White paper by IBM that examines the value of analytics in the healthcare industry based on the insight of executives from around the world.

A number of states, regions and communities across the U.S. are mobilizing healthcare information across organizations to improve health and healthcare through multi-stakeholder collaborative efforts. These initiatives involve a broad range of participants, including hospitals and other healthcare providers, physician practices, health plans, employers and other healthcare purchasers, laboratories, pharmacies, public health agencies, state and local governmental agencies, and most importantly, patients. In May 2005, the eHealth Initiative Foundation (eHI) launched its Second Annual Survey of State, Regional and Community-based Health Information Exchange Initiatives and Organizations. Responses from 109 health information exchange (HIE) efforts are included in our analysis of survey results. The survey includes questions about goals, objectives and functionality; organizational and governance models; financing and sustainability; policies for information-sharing; legal issues; and technical strategies. Self-reported information from the 109 initiatives across 45 states and the District of Columbia is a significant representation of the collective voice of the health information exchange community. This report documents the emerging trends, issues and challenges facing this community across the U.S.

This report provides an environmental analysis of the current precision medicine and genomics market in the United States healthcare industry. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), precision medicine is “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person.”1 Precision medicine goes hand in hand with “genomics” research. Genomic information can be utilized to help diagnose and treat a person’s disease. In the last several years, many provider organizations have launched new initiatives in precision medicine and genomics in an effort to improve patient outcomes. To better understand the current state of the market, the Foundation for eHealth Initiative conducted a series of interviews with executives at leading provider organizations across the country. The adopters ranged from early adopters of precision medicine who have been in this space for up to fifteen years, to those who are just starting to develop their genomics research arm. The Foundation for eHealth Initiative (eHI) is a neutral, non-profit organization which convenes executives from multi-stakeholder groups to identify best practices to transform care through use of information and innovation. As such, eHI spearheaded an effort to interview and assess the state of the field. The findings shared in this report provide insight on how clinical and genetic data is used and managed, as well as the challenges providers face in genomics research and precision medicine. 

To better understand the growth and development of ACOs and assess their use of health IT, eHealth Initiative and Premier, Inc. have surveyed public and commercial ACOs for the last three years. This report details findings from the 2015 survey, which focused on interoperability and data use among ACOs.

Three legislative, technical and field experts offered insight about key developments and progress markers with thoughts on the policy challenges that lay ahead. Speakers included Elizabeth Farrar, JD from the Office of the Honorable Diana DeGette (D-CO), Dr. Jessica Tenenbaum, PhD of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute and Grant Wood, Senior Information Technology Strategist at Intermountain Healthcare’s Clinical Genetics Institute.

eHI recently interviewed a number of leading healthcare organizations to learn about their data management strategies