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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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

Health Populi

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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Color Me Healthy – Pantone’s Forecast on Post-Pandemic Well-Being and Design

Health Populi

I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering wellbeing and community looking out to 2022/23. For context, Pantone plays a role in your life you might not realize.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

The on-demand, self-service approach to analytics, more commonly associated with the financial services industry and its Bloomberg terminal, will become broadly accessible to hospitals, payers, and life sciences companies. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange.

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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Read more… Healthcare Needs More Gender Diversity in Leadership.

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Weekly Roundup – March 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. The industry’s concerns about AI aren’t entirely new, but process automation presents a new wrinkle.

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