I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Chief Population Officer Dr. Melissa Clarke to talk about her recent experience at the 2023 HIMSS conference, including insight on health equity, […]

In the United States today, black doctors are vastly underrepresented. Only 5 percent of physicians nationwide are black. Why is it so important to have better representation? What steps can […]

As care volume moves to outpatient settings, focus on procedural safety is key. In this episode Sandeep Wadhwa, 3M HIS global chief medical officer, discusses a new methodology created to […]

Managing uncertainty in health care has created a demand for actionable data to improve quality outcomes and manage growing expenditure. The term “big data” is often used to describe the […]

Thinking outside the box has become a truism. It is meant to convey creativity and thinking beyond the obvious. Yet boxes serve a purpose. When we categorize and classify people […]

Risk adjustment is used primarily to predict health care costs based on the relative risk of members or patients. Risk adjustment is designed to mitigate the impacts of potential adverse […]

I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Senior Medical Director of Health Care Transformation and Health Equity Dr. Melissa Clarke to talk about population health and how, through technology, […]

U.S. health care costs are too high and are continually getting worse. This is especially galling considering the ongoing decline in life expectancy, the low ranking of the U.S. compared […]

I have started to hear the phrase “social determinants of health” being interspersed with the phrase “health equity.”  Although the two phrases are related, there are some fundamental differences in […]

People with chronic health conditions face many challenges as they work to manage those conditions to the best of their ability. A 2018 survey of certified diabetes educators asked how […]

Kelli sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Global Chief Medical Officer Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, to look at what’s coming in 2021 and how 2020 still managed to shine […]

With all of the data we have on diagnosis, comorbidity, age and sex, we still only access a small subset of factors that predict a person’s likelihood of experiencing complications […]