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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

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Blockchain in Healthcare: A Vehicle Towards Digital Health 2.0?

The Digital Health Corner

Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health. According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain.

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Bonus Features – March 12, 2023 – 87% of docs used telemedicine in 2021, 65% of healthcare orgs collect more trivial data once they adopt the cloud, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Small practices were less likely to use the technology than larger offices or health systems, though the ONC data saw rural and urban physicians adapting telehealth at similar rates. Reports By the middle of 2022, behavioral health visit volume was 18% higher that pre-pandemic levels , according to an analysis from Trilliant Health.