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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

On the other hand, and not surprisingly, the percentage of patients accessing information electronically saw the biggest jump from 2020 (38%) to 2022 (57%) amid the pandemic. Laudio and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership will produce biannual reports and insights from the perspective of nursing leadership.

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CIOs tackle barriers to innovation, telehealth integration, analytics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Darrow of the prominent Mount Sinai Health System said that he and his team learned since early 2020 that structural, non-technical barriers to innovation are a big reason why technical innovation is so challenging. "Before 2020, telehealth visits composed a miniscule fraction of our ambulatory care.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

"Rwanda’s eHealth Strategic Plan for 2016–2020 is the key driver to economic growth and to improving the lives of people. Develop a pilot implementation of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Rwanda that is focused on the maternal health care system in Rwanda.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). This paper, dated August 2020, pointed out that this data could help prioritize efforts at COVID-19 testing and contact tracing—today, of course, we would add vaccinations.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Current staffing levels are barriers to accessing care at a time when the industry is focusing important thought leadership on health equity. The crisis is touching every area of healthcare and requiring ultra-marathon level heroics from HC workers. Without addressing the work of healthcare, these efforts are bound to sub-perform.

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