Article Excerpt: To improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable patients, healthcare providers increasingly focus their efforts on preventive care and population health management. Many deploy technology–including electronic health records and data analytics systems–to bolster such efforts. Executives from Citrus Valley Health Partners in Orange County, California, the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, for example, previously spoke to FierceHealthIT, discussing the need for better information exchange and “data harmonization,” among other efforts.
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