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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

First, consider: the lack of interoperability between health data, resulting in silos, has plagued our ability to “operate” (that “O” in “OS”) in a smooth fashion across the care continuum, from clinical trials and research to patients’ self-care driving optimal outcomes. This is the promise of personalized medicine.

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

Health Populi

I found this tweet of mine from 2009 about Apple and Epic’s collaboration for a mobile EHR. Can we even imagine the bedfellows, strange or not, that will be collaborating for health-tech interoperability and consumer-facing care twelve months from now? That was tweeted ten years ago. Life is long; HIMSS20 is but 366 days from today.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

In the first strategic partnership for Healthcare NExT, Microsoft worked with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to develop digital services intended to reduce drudgery for physicians and improve patientsexperiences. Since it raised its first fund in 2009, it has backed nearly 60 health-related enterprises.