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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

In order to advance healthcare, improve efficiency and care coordination, and make it easier for health information to be shared between different covered entities, electronic health records needed to be adopted. Before the introduction of the HITECH Act, only 10 percent of hospitals had adopted EHRs.

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AI in Healthcare: A Great Add-on, Not a Replacement

Healthcare IT Today

In healthcare, we call it remote patient monitoring, and ironically, ushering in automation to healthcare protocols isn’t robotic yet the way clinicians are currently caring for their patients is. ultimately empowering consumers to take control of their digital health journey.

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