Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions And now, check out our community’s Health Equity predictions.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

The concept that all companies are “health care companies” takes on greater import in the wake of the pandemic. This is our annual go-to study guiding us on the private sector’s big thinking about health care plans and investments on workers’ behalf.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Accelerate digital health.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

While moving health care to the home will involve quite different workflows and disruptions to current general medical practice, it is clear that physicians in the U.S. An aging U.S. Note that this framework has been developed by the AMA, the largest professional organization of doctors.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. But the new LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights offering adds new data and improves its quality.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

“Partnerships, including JVs and alliances with other healthcare organizations and with new entrants, are just one way to access new capabilities, unlock speed to market, and achieve capital, scale, and operational efficiencies” in health care transformations. Providers, payers, and pharma comprise the bulk of revenue.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cloudbreak serves clinicians and patients across all types of healthcare settings, including hospitals, urgent care centers, standalone clinics, and medical practices, and helps improve health equity across an underserved U.S. patient population. Monroe and Barings are providing debt financing support for the transaction.

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JULY 12, 2022

Health inequity is the result of the behavior of people. Trying to correct health inequity is part of the job for Toni Land, head of clinical healthcare experience at Medallia, a patient and customer experience management company. By offering equitable healthcare, health systems can become more efficient overall.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The merger will create a technology and data-powered health platform-as-a-service organization poised to tackle some of the industry’s biggest challenges. The combined entity will aim to improve health outcomes and lower costs for members and employers by empowering better information and decision-making.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2021

Srinath Adusumalli, assistant chief medical information officer for connected health and assistant professor of clinical medicine, cardiovascular, at Penn Medicine, joined MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss their findings and the importance of centering equity in virtual care.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention: Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that virtual reality can be a useful, scalable and appealing alternative to existing pain management approaches. Health Tech, a health equity incubation partner at UCSF, and AppliedVR, a platform that provides therapeutic VR for pain management.

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APRIL 16, 2023

The 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition kicks off in Chicago on Monday, and among all the many other health and tech news that will be made there, HIMSS will officially debut its newest maturity model, designed to focus on IT innovation in the non-acute spaces where most care is delivered.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Recent Series C Financing of Leading Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Platform Fuels Rapid National Expansion SEMCAP Health announces its continued support of portfolio company, SafeRide Health , with participation in the company’s recently announced Series C funding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

" As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. TimeDoc Health is a vendor of virtual care management, chronic condition management and remote patient monitoring technologies and services. In August, it named Brian Esterly CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS ATA announced Monday that it is releasing new tools developed under the guidance of its Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities to help decision-makers target and fund interventions that address the economic burden of inaction and improve the health of communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

SDoH Success Stories to Inspire Adoption and Action in Your Organization Healthcare organizations are spending significant resources – time, money, and human capital – to address social determinants of health (SDoH) and health equity. According to Data Bridge Market Research , the U.S. in SDoH over a two-year period.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“We are grateful for the continued support of our investors, who recognize the value to be unlocked by transforming huge volumes of health data into actionable insights,” said Nassib Chamoun , Founder and CEO at HDAI. It also represents one of the largest deployments of Generative AI within healthcare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. health/care ecosystem of: Some 3,000 health departments and boards of health. 59 state and territorial health departments. Tribal health departments.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. One in two people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2021

Another timely feature in the 2021 study is the Health Care Utilization Equity Scenario which provides a baseline looking at inequities in access to care. On the patient-health citizen side of the demand curve is this stunning chasm: in the U.S., The population under 18 years of age is expected to grow by 5.6%

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Innsena’s $100,000 contribution to CancerX will be used to accelerate programs underway—including efforts to improve equity and reduce financial toxicity in cancer care and research—and more rapidly launch new initiatives. “We Cancer deaths are inequitably distributed and higher among non-white and rural populations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2024

2024 Health IT Predictions : Health Equity. First up is health equity, where our experts anticipate an emphasis on bidirectional data sharing, collaborative care, and community health. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions : Cybersecurity.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

In a busy week of news in the health care and digital health world, it would be easy to miss a press release published on 23rd August on the food-as-medicine front. It is another strong signal about the growing blur between grocery stores, food, digital tech, and population health. But don’t blink this snippet away.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Parker Health and OutCare Health proudly announce a groundbreaking research and care delivery partnership with a mission to redefine healthcare models for LGBTQ+ health, particularly within underserved and minority populations. It marks a pivotal milestone in our mission.”

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Curbside Health and OSF HealthCare are excited to announce the implementation of Curbside’s clinical effectiveness content management platform. OSF HealthCare is an integrated health system founded by The Sisters of the Third Order of St.

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JUNE 5, 2023

For many years my use of the words “health consumer” have rubbed many folks the wrong way: after all, how can patients be consumers without the requisite economic foundations that define what a “consumer” in a “health care market” are? family income — most recently pegged at around $70,000.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A systematic review of 28 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week found that telehealth-delivered interventions for patients of color were mostly effective when it came to treating and managing many conditions. WHY IT MATTERS. " ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This is the final article in a series about social determinants of health (SDoH). Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so. One site used SDoH to ensure equity for under-served populations when there wasn’t enough of a critical drug for all patients. (Of

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Though the coronavirus crisis has certainly sped up that process, he said, the foundation for such growth has been laid overtime by digital health leaders. "When designing telehealth interventions, we must ask ourselves, 'How can recent advances in health technology help achieve health equity in the populations we serve?

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 26, 2023

Expansion leverages a custom module to help health systems identify patients eligible for lifesaving therapy ALISO VIEJO, Calif.–(BUSINESS This treatment is an alternative to blood thinners proven to reduce the risk of stroke in patients with non-valvular AF, a widespread condition among the aging population in the US.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. We spoke with HIMSS Senior Director, Health Information Systems Rob Havasy about the data management challenges posed by remote care delivery. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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JULY 17, 2023

With consumer and prescriber interest in GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs “soaring,” health plan managers have a new source of financial stress and clinical questions on their to-do list. Because of rising costs and the conditions downstream health impacts, Virta noted in the report. Why diabetes and obesity?

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JULY 6, 2018

Three reports published in the past few weeks give us some useful perspective on that question, woven together in today’s Health Populi blog. Let’s start with the Philips Future Health Index , which assesses value to 16 national health systems through three lenses: access, satisfaction, and efficiency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This past week, Vice President Kamala Harris announced the inaugural federal Day of Action on maternal health, aimed at drawing attention to the country's crisis. For Mayealie Adams, managing director of Government and External Affairs at Philips, the federal government's steps on this issue represent movement in the right direction.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Check out our community’s health equity and SDoH (Social Determinants of Health) predictions. Financial health must be recognized as inseparable from health. Only time will tell.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S., CMS) and commercial/private side of health plan strategies.

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