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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

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While 57% of doctors think patients miss appointments due to insurance issues , and 34% think it’s lack of access to appointments, a Tebra survey found the real reasons that patients skip appointments are work conflicts, not feeling well, and facing transportation issues.

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Bonus Features – June 11, 2023 – Amazon adds FHIR APIs, NYU and NVIDIA along with Mayo and Google collaborate on generative AI, and more

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News and Studies At the annual AWS Summit, Amazon announced an initiative to create an open-source database of brain cell data , a Virtual Innovation Center launched in conjunction with the Interoperability Institute, and new FHIR API offerings on Amazon HealthLake aimed at improving data exchange and patient access.

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