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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

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare. Then Medicare goes bust.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

In addition to addressing the more traditional elements of health informatics, there are evolving industry trends that help define what we need to teach. Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability. The Northeastern MS in Health Informatics program addresses interoperability in two ways. Here are three of them.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

The idea makes sense; it can reduce running costs while leveraging the offer for future health insights. So let’s take inventory: software for medical research, new sensor technology that provides activity data and remote diagnostics, health records, medical clinics and a powerful soft asset – consumer trust.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. The solution, of course, relies on data sharing among the participating care providers. Moving forward, there is an uphill climb towards interoperability across systems. Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).