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Regulation, Reimbursement, and Interoperability Block Health Systems’ Digital Transformation – The State of Healthcare in 2021 From HIMSS

Health Populi

Nine in ten clinicians have recommended digital health tools to patients, and 8 in 10 clinicians strongly concurred that the pandemic resulted in helpful changes including the adoption of telehealth. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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How Coronavirus Is Re-Shaping Consumer Behavior, From the Amusement Park to the Voting Booth

Health Populi

Clearly, our daily life-flows outside of our homes have been impacted by our perceived risks of the coronavirus: more people would be less like to use public transportation, go to an amusement park or a concert or political rally or sporting event, to take a vacation, go to the gym or a museum or cinema.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Best Buy Health is working with over two dozen health systems in the U.S. Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

E-CareManagement

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Conference Chairpersons. Steven R. .

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

E-CareManagement

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Conference Chairpersons. Steven R. .

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. But the immediate pivot to virtual events, and the spring launch of the HIMSS20 Digital event proved the value of knowledge-sharing and connection, even at a distance.

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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

Health Populi

In 2021, racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare are a top patient safety issue, according to ECRI’s annual list of major concerns facing healthcare consumers’ risks to adverse events that can harm them. health care — especially expressed by health disparities.

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