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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

In a post I wrote here in 2012, I discussed some of the implications of low health literacy. Predictive analytics and other AI may however be relevant to patient safety by gathering data from the patient’s EHR (and heaven help us one day from data sets of other systems) to predict both minor and major preventable adverse events.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. Both providers and patients usually have to negotiate diverse healthcare site-specific platforms.