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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates. In a post I wrote here in 2012, I discussed some of the implications of low health literacy. There are even statistics bantered about as to percentage of physicians, nurses, and others who will lose their jobs to AI technology.

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Digital health is ready for its second act. Will it deliver on its promise to empower patients and providers?

Redox

Almost everyone agrees that digital health is a benefit to their organization and to their patients. Yet systems, culture, history, beliefs, and habits make it difficult to figure out how to actually make the adaptations needed for better digital health. Laying the foundation for Health IT.

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Weekender 7/6/18

HIStalk Weekender

UK-based private equity firm Hg will buy Orion Health’s Rhapsody healthcare integration technology business and 25 percent of its population health unit. Tennessee prescribers ordered 104 million tablets of OxyContin from 2008 to 2017, the majority of them for high doses. Readers Write: EHRs Have Not Reduced Paper Usage Yet.

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Weekender 9/28/18

HIStalk Weekender

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie tells the Senate VA Committee that he and representatives at the DoD are working to create a “single point of authority” for their respective EHR projects with Cerner. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Weekly News Recap. Best Reader Comments.

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The Consumer and the Payor, Bingo and Trust: My Day At Medecision Liberator Bootcamp

Health Populi

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Now that EHRs are well-adopted in physicians’ practices and hospitals, patient data have gone digital, and can be aggregated and mined for better diagnosis, treatment, and intelligent decision making.