The health IT team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been helping manage the recent surge of pediatric respiratory illnesses by shifting to virtual urgent care and boosting remote patient monitoring, CIO Shakeeb Akhter told Becker’s.
The Bronson Health Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Bronson Healthcare, has been recognized for its fundraising efforts after it exceeded a number of targets.
Eighty-nine percent of U.S. adults say they have a regular physician or place of care, according to a report from the Commonwealth Fund published earlier this year.
Los Angeles-based UCLA Health is going big on big data, using it to not only streamline operations and gauge the patient experience but also predict disease progression and identify the rarest of conditions, said Chief Data Officer Albert Duntugan.