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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

At Northeastern, the HI program accepted its first students in 2007, making it one of the oldest HI graduate programs in the country. Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability. The proposals will help to break down existing barriers to interoperability and empower patients by giving them access to their health information.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills.