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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. trillion, over 18% of U.S.

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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. of the U.S.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Since the program’s inception, the curriculum has required that students develop proficiency in health science, management science, and information science. Before the introduction of the HITECH Act, only 10 percent of hospitals had adopted EHRs. Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability. Here are three of them.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

In a global model, the lead health system VBP entity—whether part of an integrated delivery system or clinically and financially integrated IPA or ACO—would extend successes and performance across payor types, including Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Medicaid managed care, Medicare FFS, Medicare Advantage, and/or commercial plans.