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Part Two: Our 2018 Health IT Wish List

Mobile Health Matters

The healthcare IT industry enters 2018 with a lot of potential, along with the need to overcome structures that have historically stunted progress. Smaller, more agile companies can more effectively satisfy the needs of health systems when it comes to interoperability and data aggregation that the larger vendors are just beginning to tackle.

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These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

Drawing from this experience on both sides of the equation, I believe the next generation of EHRs can better meet the needs of all involved with better usability, interoperability, and flexibility. One annual survey found that 53% of physicians say they are burnt out, and in 2018, that figure was 42%. Here’s how.

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The future of Health Startups remain linked to Enterprise-scale players, reports Rock Health

Lloyd Price

Since 2011, the number of digital health deals has risen steadily, from $1.2bn spent within 92 deals, to $3.4bn over 193 deals in 2018. Healthcare has witnessed a number of vertical integrations in H1, such as CVS & Aetna, Optum’s acquisition of the DaVita Medical Group, Humana and Kindred Healthcare, Cigna and Express Scripts and others.

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Health in 2040: 10 archetypes that could define the future of health

Lloyd Price

Consumers will want automated, actionable health insights that come from smart artificial intelligence (AI) applied to interoperable data that is seamless and integrated across all platforms and applications. Many consumers will shop for modular and personalized health coverage and will receive care (mostly) where they are.

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Telemedicine Today: August 2016

American Well

Today, we see many different EHRs and EMRs, but the challenge is now enabling telemedicine through those platforms. Increased standardization and interoperability will pave the way toward the integration of telemedicine with EHRs,” Stewart Ferguson, CIO of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.

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Group Brings SDOH Coding Effort To HL7 FHIR Program

Healthcare IT Today

In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data. For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts.

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