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The Power of Predictive Health: Discern Health’s Approach to Longevity and Equity for the 2024 Digital Health Awards

Recently, Discern Health chief medical and strategy officer, Dr. Paulo Pinho, joined a webinar with fellow finalists for the Digital Health Hub Foundation’s Digital Health Awards. The conversation encompassed the importance of equity and inclusion in healthcare, specifically as it relates to longevity. As a Rising Star finalist in the Longevity category for the 2024 Digital Health Awards, the conversation was an important one, focused on equity-driven predictive models, why radical collaboration is key for innovation, and how empowerment and inclusion can help fuel team morale.

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Using LOINC Questionnaires to Support Patient Care

Katie Sutton, medical terminologist at Discern Health, presented recently at the 2024 LOINC Conference about how LOINC questionnaires can be better used at the point of care and in the building of predictive models to support proactive patient care. She shared examples of how we use the questionnaires at Discern Health to inform care decisions, reduce risk, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

Discern Health Named a Finalist for the Digital Health Awards

Discern Health has been named a finalist for the 6th annual Digital Health Hub Foundation’s Digital Health Awards. Winners will be announced onstage at HLTH 2024!

Discern Health Named Quarterfinalist for the Digital Health Awards

Discern Health has been named a quarterfinalist for the 6th annual Digital Health Hub Foundation’s Digital Health Awards. As a quarterfinalist, Discern Health stands out for its commitment to preventing falls, improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs.

Dr. Paulo Pinho in MedCity News

How will demographic shifts impact the future of healthcare in the United States? Chief Medical and Strategy Officer Paulo Pinho discussed the dangers we face as we grow older, how predictive analytics provide a potential answer for the detection of falls, and how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s STEADI initiative is helping to advance frailty and falls prevention efforts to improve outcomes.

Ben Hsieh in Healthcare IT Today

For Healthcare IT Today, Discern Health’s Ben Hsieh discussed how innovative payers utilize digital health tools to personalize care plans and address the unique needs of each member to improve patient engagement and outcomes.

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Discern Health on the Healthcare Musings Podcast

Discern Health’s chief medical and strategy officer, Paulo Pinho, joined Nilesh Maheshwari on the Healthcare Musings with Nilesh podcast.

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Unlocking the Mysteries of Medical Terminology: Katie Sutton’s Journey from Theater to Patient to Coding

Using a medical terminology expert such as Katie Sutton ensures accurate communication among healthcare professionals and clarity in patient records, reports, and correspondence. At Discern Health, Sutton brings her 20-year wealth of experience to the data science and clinical teams to build accurate predictive analytics models.

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Responsible AI for Better Health Outcomes: A Conversation with Data Scientist Jacob Dodd

At Discern Health, we are harnessing the power of data and AI to improve health longevity and fulfillment. However, we know the responsible development and deployment of AI models, especially in healthcare, is paramount. Jacob Dodd, lead data scientist at Discern Health, guides our team to build models with responsible AI at the top of mind.

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Susan Machutt Named to Becker’s Hospital Review 2024 Women in Health IT to Know List

We’re happy to announce that Susan Machutt, APRN-BC, ANP, Vice President and Medical Director, has been named as one of the 2024 Women in Health IT to Know by Becker’s Hospital Review.

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Exploring the Future of Healthcare: Key Discussions from HIMSS 2024

Central to our team's discussions at HIMSS 2024 were the emerging technologies and their potential to revolutionize the healthcare sector through digital health innovations and cybersecurity measures. The conference underscored the critical role of technology partners in healthcare's digital transformation, highlighting how such collaborations can enhance efficiency for clinical professionals and shape the next generation of healthcare models.

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Electronic Health Records and Data Standards for Life Insurance

Life insurance underwriting is a notoriously difficult and historically non-standardized process, heavily impacted by the quality of the health records used to make decisions. For On The Risk, The Journal of the Academy of Life Underwriting, Dr. Paulo Pinho, Discern Health’s chief medical and strategy officer, and Andy Kramer, vice president of underwriting risk and innovation at M Financial, explored the past, present and future of electronic health records (EHRs) in life underwriting, the need for interdisciplinary collaboration between underwriters, informaticists and technologists, and how data standards will revolutionize the future of the industry.