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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. This will enable better care coordination, better patient outcomes, and reduced costs. Health Informatics at Northeastern . Here are three of them.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. 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.

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WhatsApp, Messaging Apps and the future of Digital Health in the UK

Lloyd Price

6) CareFlow Connect - www.careflowconnect.com Founded by two surgeons in 2007, Careflow Connect Ltd was acquired last year by System C Healthcare Ltd, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of health and social care software. Messaging could be a repeat of primary care practice management software.