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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

The costs for EHR and other technology acquisition and maintenance are too costly for smaller hospitals, and pressures of decreased payment rates are increasing on the provider side. This often results in the maintenance of multiple EHR vendors for inpatient systems and even more if one includes outpatient setting.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

These two dozen exhibits detail growing adoption of digital tech in health care, the growth of genomics and EHR adoption, examples of these tools from “A” (Apple) to “Z” (Zocdoc), and on the last page of that chapter, medical spending in the U.S., the highest in raw and per capita numbers versus the rest of the world.

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