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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

High administrative spending relative to the other countries, as fragmented insurance systems and payors generate too much paperwork (real “paper” and wasted digital work-flows), along with too-much-time spent by clinicians with poorly-designed EHR and other digital tech. — it’s a qualified “yes.”