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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.

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How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

Health Populi

” The implementation of electronic health records, spurred on by the HITECH Act which was embedded in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the Stimulus Bill) resulted in lots of EHRs deployed in hospitals and doctor’s offices, with huge gaps in interoperability and data liquidity.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Patient’s privacy and data security. That was tweeted ten years ago.

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Here are some of the evidence: In a 2009 study on the evidence of the Chronic Care Model in the new millennium , it was found that the Chronic Care Model can improve patient care and create better health outcomes. This helps them make more informed decisions about treatment plans. DrKumo Inc.,

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

A privately held company, InterSystems has earned recognition as the Frost & Sullivan European Company of the Year in Integrated Connected Health Technologies and was recognized for innovation and leadership in database technologies by SD Times. Lenovo (Morrisville, N.C.). Nordic (Madison, Wis.). Willis Towers Watson (Chicago).