As physician time with patients continues to be stretched thinner, the need for helpful applications for providers is in high demand. Companies in this session showcased support and assistance tools for providers, taking care to develop applications that are easily integrated into everyday practice.

In order to make the health improvement this country needs, health care professionals will need to start engaging larger populations. These demands tools that can collect and analyze incredibly large data sets. Companies in this session are making sense of health figures in the millions and making those health fights we once perceived as impossible to grasp, beatable.

Russell’s background combines product development with finance. He has helped create IT solutions for population health management, pay for performance and patient-centered medical homes.  In this session Russell demonstrated Phytel’s population health dashboard which allows providers to focus in on specific populations and perform interventions to scale patient engagement.

You’ll just have heard Steve Shellhammer explain Phytel’s business model. Now see Russell demo how the technology allows providers to communicate with exactly the right patients and now also integrate their data from home based devices–all in the cause of better population health.

Here are some demos from companies who make finding  tools for financial and clinical decisions quick and easy.

You’ll just have heard Steve Shellhammer explain Phytel’s business model. Now see Russell demo how the technology allows providers to communicate with exactly the right patients and now also integrate their data from home based devices–all in the cause of better population health.

Exploring the new technologies that are reconstructing care delivery including ACOs, new physician tools, innovations in payment models, and more.

We talked with Russell Olsen, VP of Product Management at Phytel, about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.

Russell Olsen, Vice President, Product Management, Phytel

Russell points out that we are in a new health world, that patients are looking for automated engaging patient communication outside of the doctor’s office. Russell discusses the key points that make Phytel successful as a patient health platform.