Insights

Explore our archive of Insight posts, featuring a wealth of News, Events, Resources, and Blog posts. We aim for these Insights to help revolutionize health trajectories, fostering more accessible, proactive, and cost-effective healthcare solutions.

Headshot of Katie Sutton, medical terminologist at Discern Health. Sutton presented on LOINC questionnaires at the 2024 LOINC Conference.

Blog

Using LOINC Questionnaires to Support Patient Care

September 25, 2024      6 min. read

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

September 24, 2024      1 min. read

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

September 11, 2024      2 min. read

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

August 14, 2024      1 min. read

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

July 18, 2024      1 min. read

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.

Podcast

Discern Health on the Healthcare Musings Podcast

July 15, 2024      1 min. read

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

Katie Sutton headshot, medical terminology at Discern Health. On a blue gradient graphic background.

Blog

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

June 4, 2024      4 min. read

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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Blog

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

May 14, 2024      5 min. read

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

May 10, 2024      1 min. read

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.

HIMSS 2024 logo with crowd and dark blue background

Blog

Exploring the Future of Healthcare: Key Discussions from HIMSS 2024

April 3, 2024      3 min. read

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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Blog

Electronic Health Records and Data Standards for Life Insurance

March 27, 2024      5 min. read

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.

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Blog

Data Science at Discern Health: A Conversation with VP Khurram Tehseen

March 19, 2024      3 min. read

As the Vice President of Data Science at Discern Health, Khurram Tehseen brings a wealth of experience and insight. In a recent conversation, Tehseen shared invaluable insights into the nuances of longitudinal data and its pivotal role in shaping data-driven decisions in healthcare. 

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