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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers. Motivations for expanding digital tools for patients are to enhance access to care, empowering patients to monitor and manage their health, and deliver greater patient satisfaction.

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Parker Health Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding to Transform American Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Our proprietary full-stack multi-use Health Management System™, the Parker Suite™, is America’s first FHIR-built, interoperable, affordable, and compliant platform that is revolutionizing the industry with limitless applications for patients, providers, health systems, governments, researchers, and payors.

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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. You can’t do everything yourself.

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Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more

Healthcare IT Today

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. The silver lining: Healthcare is the leading sector, though most funds are going to biotech.

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Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Healthcare IT Today

CareCloud earned ONC certification for two EHRs , VertexDR and talkEHR, for compliance with 21st Century Cures Act interoperability requirements. The Biotech Breakthrough Awards Program announced its 2022 award winners. Change Healthcare announced that its hospital customers have moved more than 10% of their imaging data to the cloud.

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Healthcare Insiders Take Note: AI is the New Black

Xealth

Even as venture capital in healthcare languishes, we see bright spots specific to the growing intersection of biotech and computation. He promised a nationwide architecture to solve longtime interoperability challenges and enable real-time data access (h/t Healthcare IT News ).

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Join the VA’s “Open API Pledge” session at Health Datapalooza

Society for Participatory Medicine

. $10B contract w/Cerner = HUGE opportunity, 1ce in a lifetime, to rally around and use it to make something BE interoperable, and show the way to the rest of the healthcare landscape on how to do it. Big tech community, McGuire VA, Virginia Biotech Park, RVAtech (tech council), VCU Med. VA is largest health system in the country.

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