2023, EHR, Health Information and Interoperability

From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry. When I started my career in health information, I worked in the medical records department.

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Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN , firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space. Surescripts is Actually an Interoperability Company According to Surescript’s 2022 National Progress Report , 1.23 We really are an interoperability company,” said McMartin. “We

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Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I called 2021 weird , then 2022 just as weird , but 2023? 2023: the year where nothing changed, and yet everything changed Reflecting on our predictions from last year, we are quite baffled why we didn’t say anything about AI. Garrett thought record retrieval would rid itself of the fax machine in 2023. Decidedly weirder.

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On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 10, 2023

Brian Scarpelli, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI), expressed CHI’s support for the bill: “Interoperability is critical to realize the promise of digital health and enable better, more cost-effective, patient-centered care. first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

doctors, driven by turnover and understaffing, compassion fatigue, and challenges using digital tools — think EHRs. T he 2023 BDO Clinician Experience Survey “takes on” clinician burnout, connecting the strategic dots between the clinician experience and the patient experience. How to move forward? In the current U.S.

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Data Quality Scrutiny, SDoH, Value-Based Care…What are the New Healthcare Truths of 2023?

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many facets of healthcare remained in a state of flux at the close of 2022, as care practices that started during the pandemic found their way into the mainstream, and enthusiasm for new data sources and interoperability outpaced the realities of implementation. Be sure to check out last year’s New Healthcare Truths of 2022 ) 1. (Be

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DrFirst Acquires Myndshft Technologies to Revolutionize Medication Management by Addressing Both Pharmacy and Medical Benefits

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Managing PAs is a significant burden on medical practices because of time-consuming manual processes and lack of integration with electronic health record (EHR) systems. Myndshft works with leading providers, payers, and health information exchanges. healthcare market at scale. “We and Canada.

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Xealth’s Recap from Oracle Health Conference 2023

Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We heard from the Mace family, a couple who experienced first hand the difficulties with health data exchange after Tristan (26 yo M) had to undergo an emergency heart transplant after experiencing a catastrophic cardiac event. The post Xealth’s Recap from Oracle Health Conference 2023 appeared first on Xealth.

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Weekly Roundup – May 13, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

Read more… AI Front and Center at 2023 eClinicalWorks Health Centers Summit. Organizations have embraced the cloud thanks to its improved security, the push for interoperability, the growing number of cloud-ready applications, and of course the shift to remote work.

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Elation Health and Surescripts® Partnership Supports Patient-Specific Prescription Cost Transparency for Primary Care Clinicians at Point of Care

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 23, 2024

Surescripts , the Arlington, Virginia–based information technology company, is the nation’s leading health information network. Elena Christofides, an Elation EHR customer in Columbus, OH. About Elation Health Elation Health is the most trusted technology platform for high-value primary care.

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Global Healthcare Informatics Market Trends, Forecasts and Competitive Strategies, 2021-2022 & 2023-2031

Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Healthcare Informatics Market Size, Market Share, Application Analysis, Regional Outlook, Growth Trends, Key Players, Competitive Strategies and Forecasts, 2023 to 2031” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

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What priorities in healthcare in 2023 and what is the tech that is addressing these areas?

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

JANUARY 24, 2023

What are priorities in healthcare in 2023 and what is the tech that is addressing these areas? With 2023 already upon us, it is clear that the NHS can not continue with its current standards of functioning. If this transition is undertaken successfully, the future outcomes for our healthcare in 2023 will show a lot of promise.

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ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Harmony Healthcare IT Partners with Novacap to Accelerate Innovation and Growth in Healthcare Data Management

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) , a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap , one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.

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Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Interoperability vendor ELLKAY appointed Ajay Kapare as President and Chief Strategy Officer.

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Dichotomy Was the Through Line at AHIMA23

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dichotomy of Healthcare Dr. Zeev Neuwirth opened the 2023 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA23) conference and spoke about the dichotomy of healthcare. I would not be surprised to see more interoperability companies and those that focus on data quality at AHIMA24.

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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Health information network Availity was named a Great Place to Work for the third consecutive year.

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Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Representatives have introduced the WEAR IT Act , which would let Americans use money from Flexible Spending Accounts or Health Savings Accounts to pay for devices such as blood glucose and EKG monitors or sleep trackers. In particular, critical access hospitals are 16% less likely than other hospitals to engage in information exchange.

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Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools.

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Encore Health Group and Affiliates Experiences Significant Success with eClinicalWorks V12 and healow Patient Engagement Solutions

Digital Health Global

JULY 20, 2023

Chronic pain management provider utilizes digital health IT solutions across the organization for improved workflows WESTBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS healow Pay : healow Pay has increased Encore Health Group transactions by 300% since January 2023. Pain management treatment is unique. We have to see our patients once a month.

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Reveleer Announces Acquisition of MDPortals to Enhance its Comprehensive Risk Adjustment Technology with Real-Time Access to Clinical and Claims Data

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Leveraging our AI-enabled platform with NLP and MDPortals’ sophisticated interoperability allows us to deliver providers a pre-encounter clinical summary of patients within their EHR workflow at the point of care,” said Jay Ackerman, CEO and President at Reveleer. Originally announced May 16th, 2023

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Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March. ONC’s latest data brief indicated that, as of the end of 2021, more than 60% of hospitals are actively engaged in sharing health information.

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Netsmart Advances Substance Use Disorder Solution Offerings Through Acquisition of Netalytics

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This acquisition will further extend the Netsmart CareFabric platform by enabling interoperable data sharing between opioid treatment program (OTP) facilities and the providers that treat and coordinate other types of care for individuals with SUD. Originally announced October 5th, 2023

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Privacy protections are assured through the GDPR which the U.S.

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Weekly Roundup – November 12, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

A recession may be on the horizon, but Rahul Rekhi at Lazard told John that healthcare might see a lot of M&A activity heading into 2023. Healthcare isn’t getting away from paper any time soon , between fax machines and backups when the EHR system goes down. Read more… Unpacking the Future of Healthcare M&A.

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Executives for Health Innovation will wind down operations over the remainder of the year. Formed in 2001 as the eHealth Initiative, EHI has advocated for federal reimbursement for e-prescribing, EHR use, and telehealth, all while convening competitors to foster industry-wide collaboration.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare AI. Healthcare Workforce.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Therein lies the rub.

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation. This final rule does not apply to healthcare providers but instead is directed at health information networks and health information exchanges, as well as developers of certified health IT.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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Weekly Roundup – October 14, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The underlying theme of AHIMA’s annual conference was that health information management professionals are both encouraged and frustrated at the state of the industry , Colin Hung reported from Baltimore. Read more… To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Be Usable, Not Just Useful.

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Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. Health IT Security reported just last month that the number of health records exposed rose from 21.1

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Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. East Tennessee Health Information Network chose 4medica to manage duplicate patient records.

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Google Care Studio: Creating a Longitudinal Health Record

Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It provides a holistic view of a patient's health over time, facilitating informed decision-making and improved patient care. Care Studio utilizes Google's Cloud Healthcare API to connect to and harmonize data from disparate sources, including electronic health records (EHRs), medical imaging systems, and laboratory systems.

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Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

This includes expansion of originating sites and eligible providers; coverage of audio-only telehealth; extended capabilities for FQHCs and rural health clinics to offer telehealth; extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home program, and a delay for the in-person requirement for mental health services.

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Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. Depending on where you sit in healthcare today it may feel like 1986 or 2023.

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How RPM & PERS Offer More Data-Driven Insight to Healthcare Organizations

Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

By the year 2023, the US is projected to have $4.2 EHR integration with your RPM Program. One of the most powerful ways to ensure that the knowledge gained from patient RPM data is used by all their providers is with EHR integration. Optional EHR integration. Logging in: Using patient portals to access health information.

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Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “tremendous potential” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

News In a Microsoft press release announcing the availability of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service, Epic’s Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of Research and Development, said the EHR vendor sees “tremendous potential” for the latest version of the multimodal large language model. Among all physicians, pay actually decreased 2.4%

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Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

DirectTrust released the finalized criteria for the Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP) Participant program , aligning accreditation requirements with the requirements necessary to participate with a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2023.

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Bonus Features – February 12, 2023 – Epic tops Best in KLAS for 13th straight year, 89% of healthcare finance leaders remain confident in 2023, and more

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

for the thirteenth consecutive year and was also the top EHR in Canada and Europe. Meanwhile, KLAS noted that digital pathology, interoperability, and recovering from the pandemic have been driving health systems’ technology investment strategies. Epic won top honors in the U.S.

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A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While health care has been slower than other industries to leverage digital transformation, COVID-19 accelerated change — revealing some key barriers blocking the potential for more fulsome transformation, the OECD explains in its latest version of Health At A Glance for 2023 with a detailed chapter on “digital health at a glance.”

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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

Trending Sources

Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Data Quality Scrutiny, SDoH, Value-Based Care…What are the New Healthcare Truths of 2023?

DrFirst Acquires Myndshft Technologies to Revolutionize Medication Management by Addressing Both Pharmacy and Medical Benefits

Xealth’s Recap from Oracle Health Conference 2023

Weekly Roundup – May 13, 2023

Elation Health and Surescripts® Partnership Supports Patient-Specific Prescription Cost Transparency for Primary Care Clinicians at Point of Care

Global Healthcare Informatics Market Trends, Forecasts and Competitive Strategies, 2021-2022 & 2023-2031

What priorities in healthcare in 2023 and what is the tech that is addressing these areas?

ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Harmony Healthcare IT Partners with Novacap to Accelerate Innovation and Growth in Healthcare Data Management

Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Dichotomy Was the Through Line at AHIMA23

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Encore Health Group and Affiliates Experiences Significant Success with eClinicalWorks V12 and healow Patient Engagement Solutions

Reveleer Announces Acquisition of MDPortals to Enhance its Comprehensive Risk Adjustment Technology with Real-Time Access to Clinical and Claims Data

Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Netsmart Advances Substance Use Disorder Solution Offerings Through Acquisition of Netalytics

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Weekly Roundup – November 12, 2022

Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Weekly Roundup – October 14, 2023

Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Google Care Studio: Creating a Longitudinal Health Record

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

How RPM & PERS Offer More Data-Driven Insight to Healthcare Organizations

Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “tremendous potential” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Bonus Features – February 12, 2023 – Epic tops Best in KLAS for 13th straight year, 89% of healthcare finance leaders remain confident in 2023, and more

A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

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