Healthcare organizations recognize that they need to make significant investments in population health tools and infrastructure, according to the results of the 2018 HealthLeaders Media Population Health Survey.

The 6 most common infrastructure areas that respondents indicated they’re investing in showed that many still need to make significant updates to realize their population health initiatives, reported HealthLeaders‘ Jonathan Bees.

“The top three IT infrastructure investment areas,” he noted, “are analytics using payer claims data (59%), analytics using population data (57%), and data warehouses (55%). The results suggest respondents have a high level of interest in using analytics for population health activities.”

More providers this year responded that they are incorporating data about social determinants of health in their population health programs. And some (9%) reported that they’ve begun to deploy healthcare tools that leverage artificial intelligence (AI).

Read the full report here, in HealthLeaders.