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IT leaders prioritizing patient experience, value-based care in 2019, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Ramping up value-based care initiatives and improving the patient experience are top priorities for health IT leaders in 2019. At the same time, IT executives say they are facing significant technology and operational hurdles to advance these initiatives such as the ongoing lack of system interoperability.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. As we look back on 2019, it's worth remembering how far the industry has traveled to get here. -- Mike Miliard, Editor. Enhancing the patient experience with technology. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. by November 18, 2019.

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Health IT Industry Outlook Survey Reveals Six Key Leadership Trends for 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

42 percent of health IT leaders rate updating technology to improve the patient experience as the top objective for 2019, followed by measuring improvement in patient care (33 percent). Coinciding with this pivotal focus on empowering the patient care journey, 45 percent of respondents […].

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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

Health Populi

We need interoperability and connectivity, and that connectivity also means interpersonal connections. When he used the word “interoperability,” I nearly fell out of my chair because that’s such a hot button in health care IT right now. The rest of the CES story for 2019 is positive, Shelly optimistically continued.

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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

Health Populi

trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. Addressing administrative flows both inside and outside health care organizations can save money; take the lack of interoperability between claims systems between payers and hospitals and other aspects of lack of standardization and fragmented data systems.

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

Health Populi

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. 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.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. The second chart details the key barriers preventing clinicians from sharing data with patients.