Welcome to Owning the Future of Healthcare, a podcast from Health Catalyst, your leading provider of data & analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations.
Partnering for Success in Healthcare Operations with Matt Kolb
Matt Kolb discusses the partnership between Carle Health and Health Catalyst to use data and analytics to support operational decision-making in healthcare.
27 Jan 2022
How to Leverage Data and Analytics for Rapid Response to Emerging Threats with Christopher Hutchins
Find out how this healthcare system uses data to power decision-making
25 Jan 2022
How Health Catalyst Drives Better Population Health Through Data
Population health may seem like a marathon, but it is immensely beneficial for patient outcomes. Jonas Varnum, Vice President of Population Health Strategic Services at Health Catalyst, joined Host Hilary Kennedy to discuss how to implement population health.
The goal of population health is to create a better system with less waste. Currently, there are one trillion dollars in suboptimal care, which could be improved by 35 to 50 percent. Varied insurance models, such as commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and others, provide a challenge in the different revenue they generate. Varnum explained, “The only real way to successfully deliver care is to have a scalable, systematic method of how you do population health across different patient populations.”
Implementation of population health means a system must answer innumerable use cases rapidly. They need to know how impactful certain patient populations are and ensure they are benchmarked appropriately. This includes examining whether utilization rates of certain services, such as emergency services and telehealth, are appropriate. Population health includes understanding patient population equity. Are patients receiving the right care at the right place and time?
Varnum explained how data is transferred to interventions such as care management, direct patient engagement, and quality measures. Health Catalyst embeds over 250 measures directly into the EHR. Clinicians can easily access them to meet specific criteria of the measures. This decreases administrative work and burnout.
Varnum’s take? “At the end of the day, what you really need to make sure that you’re doing, is understanding that after you worked that patient population, did it create outcomes?” He added, “The reality though is that if you actually have a systematic structure, then that marathon is a lot easier.”
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21 Dec 2021
A Strong Data Foundation Powers Product Development
Hear from Health Catalyst’s first chief product officer on how they build products and the value of data
10 Dec 2021
Allina Health’s Approach to Data-Driven Healthcare—Now and in the Future
Dr. David Ingham discusses the role of data and analytics at Allina Health
14 Jun 2021
Will AI Improve Healthcare in an Ethical Way?
The pandemic forced healthcare providers to adopt AI, telehealth and more robust data analysis.
14 Jun 2021
How Can Healthcare Digitize and Democratize Its Data?
Data-informed healthcare is becoming more important to the global healthcare market. Where and how is the data being collected? How does data collection differ across markets? What is Health Catalyst doing to advance the vision of data-driven care?
14 Jun 2021
Owning the Future of Healthcare: Managing Finances in a Transforming Market
There’s never been a more transformative period in healthcare, and you need tools to keep up.
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