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By Orit Wimpfheimer, MD Prevention is better than cure, says Arnon Makori, MD, MHA, director of imaging informatics at Clalit Health Services in Israel, the second largest health maintenance organization in the world. He points out that this is a basic tenet of population health, which in part seeks to improve care by assessing the risk of chronic disease, managing that risk, and driving prevention in specific populations. Across the globe at the National Health Service’s Oxford University Hospitals in the United Kingdom (UK) as well as in the United States at Intermountain Health, the largest health care provider in the Utah, Idaho, and Nevada area, physicians emphatically agree. They view this growing approach to health care as a crucial way to treat patients more effectively, efficiently, and at lower cost. They also agree that in today’s data-driven health care age, AI-driven population health tools can help this burgeoning health care strategy live up ....