The new normal of care delivery will almost certainly involve telehealth. But health systems’ strategy for telehealth moving forward is shifting, with some looking to redesign care delivery and others focusing on filling in gaps in patient experience.

MedCity News is partnering with the New Orleans Business Alliance to host the executive summit November 16-18. It focuses on population health and highlights where innovation and investment are occurring in the field.

With more individuals exploring their family tree, it’s reasonable to believe many of them are als intent to get a handle on their potential for various hereditary diseases. With that in mind, Ochsner Health has launched a digital population health pilot program.

A visit to the Louisiana health system sheds some light on how it is innovatively addressing chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes, the inpatient experience and more.

As we get closer to the inaugural MedCity INVEST Population Health conference with the New Orleans Business Alliance May 22, the CEO of Ochsner Health’s innovation lab talked about some of the programs the group has developed to support care delivery.

May 22 marks the inaugural MedCity INVEST Pop Health conference in collaboration with the New Orleans Business Alliance. The population health conference is timely as communities around the nation wrestle with how best to help patients manage chronic conditions, reduce hospitalizations, and improve outcomes.

TytoCare’s TytoHome product will be offered online through BestBuy.com and brick-and-mortar stores in Minnesota. Availability is also coming soon to locations in California, North Dakota and South Dakota.

The company raised a $33.5 million Series C round that included participation from rural healthcare system Sanford Health, Chinese insurer Ping An and global pharmacy chain Walgreens.

The aim of their collaboration is to improve the patient clinical trial experience and ease participation in clinical research for patients and healthcare professionals.

Geneva Health Solutions’ cloud-based technology platform and remote monitoring service will be used to help Ochsner’s patients with cardiac device implants in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

In an effort to reduce adverse events, the New Orleans, Louisiana-based system has adopted an artificial intelligence platform powered by cloud and AI technologies from Microsoft and Epic.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System chose Appriss Health to enable integration of Louisiana’s prescription drug monitoring program information into its Epic EHR system. Ochsner CMIO Todd Burstain said the service went live in October of 2017.

Among consumers, wearables are growing in popularity. But what can clinicians actually gain from the data the devices collect? Panelists at the Connected Health Conference in Boston weighed in.