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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Though this is a significant increase from 2012, numbers haven’t budged much since 2015. Product and Company News Google Cloud released MedLM language models for healthcare and life sciences. Pennsylvania-based WellSpan Health selected Arcadia data analytics to supports its Medicare Shared Savings Program.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

The study reviewed reports and articles published between January 1, 2012 and May 15, 2019, dressing the topic of waste across six domains previously identified by the Institute of Medicine: Failure of care delivery, with waste ranging between $102 bn and $166 bn. Political debates in this 2020 U.S. patients).

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

1 problem of America and of American business,” Buffett said in 2012. And as part of its efforts to target the aging infirm, the company began offering Prime discounts to Medicare recipients. That would be pretty difficult, but not impossible,” said Will Hinde, head of West Monroe Partners’ healthcare and life sciences division.

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