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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

Consumers are looking for smarter ways to save on healthcare, forcing insurance providers to make marked changes to the way they conduct outreach and how they interact with their members. Inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare staffing shortages have reshaped the industry landscape.

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The Importance of Patient Engagement in Healthcare

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The importance of patient engagement in healthcare is multifaceted, including better patient outcomes, improved patient experience, and reduced readmission rates. This can reduce the likelihood of readmission to the hospital and decrease healthcare costs.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Health Informatics at Northeastern . Here are three of them.

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

Healthcare IT Today

The healthcare industry not only needs to scale but also reduce human error, which is a challenge that comes with speed. Every other industry has discovered a way to do both and its automation. The time to change is now and we must move faster.

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The Death of Old-School Telehealth

GlobalMed

These telehealth providers are offering the fast food of the healthcare industry and they’re leaving both patients and providers dissatisfied, as noted in a recent KLAS research report. As Dr. Joaquin Fernandez Quintero of TeleMedik Innova Health Solutions said, “Our healthcare improvement model is incredibly unique.