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Seven Market Trends

LinkousThink

I have selected seven topics for brief comments and predictions as we start 2012: 1. Teleradiology is now so common that many hospitals don’t use the term – outsourcing radiology, at least for after-hours, is just the way things are now done in healthcare. In June 2010 I wrote that we were at the top of the hype cycle for mHealth.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

It is interesting to note that a 2012 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on this topic concluded that hospital consolidation increases healthcare costs and that physician-hospital consolidation has neither improved quality of care or reduced costs. Healthcare IT can play a major role in M & A for providers.