Health Information, Interoperability and Study

Legislation introduced on requiring the FDA to study medical device data interoperability

Connected Health Initiative

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 29, 2022, Representatives Miller-Meeks, O’Halleran, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

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On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 10, 2023

Brian Scarpelli, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI), expressed CHI’s support for the bill: “Interoperability is critical to realize the promise of digital health and enable better, more cost-effective, patient-centered care. first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Two main factors underpin clinicians’ feelings of burnout: turnover and understaffing, and compassion fatigue, shown in the graph among two-thirds of the providers in the study. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey.

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

"The framework will enable us to look for more innovative ways to complement and support the capabilities of our highly skilled workforce, while addressing the risks and challenges that come with the use of AI in health," added NSW Health Minister Ryan Park. The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

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Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The four-day summit focused on the evolving role of HIE, new interoperability successes and the valuable implications of harnessing data to advance health equity.

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Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

The solution: Driving health information exchange and introducing connected-care applications Clínica Alemana Osorno has responded to these issues with a comprehensive digital transformation strategy. The interoperability platform is crucial for a successful digital transformation.

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Enhancing one of the oldest shared care records: the Care and Health Information Exchange extends into care homes

DigitalHealth

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Covid-19 gave new urgency to the need for fast, secure access to medical records across health and social care boundaries. Keycloak, an open source identity and access management solution by Orion Health, means care home staff in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight can use the shared care record, releasing time to care for residents.

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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies More than 90% of healthcare executives agree that AI capabilities are expanding and will improve their organizations, according to Accenture’s Technology Vision 2024 report.

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Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Hospitals serving marginalized communities are less likely to participate in interoperable patient data exchange , according to the latest ONC research.

eCare

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. Eventually, telemedicine will become the primary care delivery model, combined with better diagnostic tools, device integration and data interoperability.

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Big Tech + Digital Health: Even Big-Ticket Mistakes Won’t Dissuade Companies From Healthcare

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“Healthcare is an $11+ trillion market that is haunted by disorganization and difficulties in resource allocation, ” HealthXL asserts; Big Tech companies have the skills, in theory, to address the various “haunting” challenges of fragmented, un-interoperable health systems.

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Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Interoperability vendor Innovar Healthcare released an OSS Mirth Connect plugin that’s now available on AWS Marketplace.

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Studies HLTH Foundation formed the Techquity for Health Coalition , with a mission to help organizations consider health equity in health technology innovation and data practices.

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Bonus Features – July 17, 2022 – Social care vendors commit to interop, only 1 in 6 healthcare orgs have secured IoT, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. A group of six social care companies have signed an interoperability pledge from the Michigan Health Information Network. billion over a five-year period.

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Weekly Roundup – March 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

Colin Hung interviewed Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture about how Qualified Health Information Networks will shine a light on data quality issues. Information will be moving more freely, to be sure – but the providers on the receiving end may not be able to make much use of the data they get.

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The Future of Telemedicine Transformed by Large Language Models

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

Medical Literature Analysis Large language models can process and analyze a vast number of medical research papers, identifying relevant studies and extracting valuable insights that can inform treatment plans and improve patient outcomes.

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Self-sovereign identity (SSI) - the future of Health Data?

Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Challenges and considerations: Technical complexity: Implementing and integrating SSI technology across diverse healthcare systems can be challenging due to technical complexities and interoperability issues. This transparency builds trust and fosters informed consent.

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Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

According to a report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, as of 2021, 96% of non-federal acute care hospitals and 78% of office-based physicians have adopted certified EHR technology. The Importance of Data Accuracy in EHR Many healthcare organizations have jumped on the EHR bandwagon.

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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network.

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#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

We’ll also help you make sense of all today’s trends in health technology—from machine learning to digital maturity and telehealth. Lectures, up-close networking, and case studies: we’ve got them all. And you’ll leave HIMSS24 Europe with rich insights to take back home and drive change in your health system. Among many others.)

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

According to a study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine ER physicians spend only 28% of their time in direct face to face patient contact and can go through 4000 computer mouse clicks in one shift. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. Clinical trials.

Digital Health

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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Health data analytics also facilitates population health management, identifying trends, and patterns to optimize preventive care and public health interventions. This data can be used to conduct studies, identify trends, and develop evidence-based interventions. Health Information Technology (Health IT) HealthIT.gov.

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Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. 3M Health Information Systems is collaborating with AWS to incorporate generative AI into M*Modal clinical documentation.

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Particle Health’s Latest White Paper Offers the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Health Information Network (HIN) Data Exchange Performance Metrics to Date

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2023

The report also details critical information on how to successfully leverage HIN data when building digital healthcare tools and operating healthcare organizations or digital platforms. A sample of queryable data found that a plurality (about 45%) of health data available on HINs was generated within the past three years.

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Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The HIMSS EHR Association urged ONC to avoid moving too quickly with the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability proposed rule.

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Value-based healthcare – what it means for Thailand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

At its core, the aim is to develop a capable and interoperable health information system as well as digital health technologies to bring about value and improved standards of care. The last lesson is to take a problem-driven approach.

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. New Jersey-based ACO Shore Quality Partners selected Spatially Health to identify barriers to health equity and provide intervention recommendations.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. And now, check out our community’s healthcare analytics and interoperability predictions. Jean Drouin, Co-Founder and CEO at Clarify Health. Ashley Basile, Chief Product Officer at Diameter Health (now part of Availity). Healthcare Workforce.

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Global Healthcare Informatics Market Trends, Forecasts and Competitive Strategies, 2021-2022 & 2023-2031

Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This study comprehensively analyzes each segment from 2021 to 2031, with a base year of 2022, projecting Compounded Annual Growth Rates (CAGR) for the forecast period. Nonetheless, challenges persist, particularly interoperability and data integration.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential. Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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Improving Patient-Centricity: Raleigh Radiology’s Journey with PocketHealth

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Being patient-centric in radiology means digitization, delivering convenience, and providing immediate access to health information for both clinicians and patients,” said Manole. “We A recent study found that when patients could access and view their radiology images online: 82.9% felt more in control of their condition 73.6%

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Revolutionizing Hypertension Care with Remote Patient Monitoring

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 29, 2024

With stringent encryption standards and adherence to regulations like HIPAA, RPM ensures that personal health information is securely managed and protected. A study published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (2023) sheds light on RPM’s significant impact on hypertension care.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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Unfortunate Hits on HIT

LinkousThink

MARCH 5, 2012

The latest issue of Health Affairs ([link] has brought into question two tenets behind HIT: reducing the number of medical tests and increasing quality based on increased electronic health information. The easier it is for a doctor to quickly see the test results, the more likely the person is to order such tests.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. With FHIR 4, Open APIs, Carequality and CommonWell reaching a milestone of sorts and the finalized information blocking rule from Health and Human Services coming, the table is set for notable advancements in health information exchange.

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7 Healthcare Technology Trends for 2022

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The healthcare industry has many reclining networks, including those of universities and hospital systems, within which many stakeholders must be able to communicate with doctors’ offices, radiology labs, pharmacies, health insurance companies, patients, etc. AI and machine learning adaptation. million individuals [3].

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Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

Lloyd Price

JULY 10, 2023

In addition to these benefits, open source software is also becoming increasingly interoperable. A recent study by the Linux Foundation found that 75% of healthcare organizations are using open source software. These EHRs offer a number of benefits, including vendor independence, flexibility, and interoperability.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Out of the gate, Stanford used it to develop an app to enroll volunteers in a heart study. In one day 11,000 people enrolled - more users in 24 hours than most medical studies find in a year. Millions of people around the world have already joined medical studies using this infrastructure.

Life Science

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The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

The pandemic has become a sort of forcing function on all aspects of daily living, include health care. Deloitte’s latest wave of health care consumer market research updates the COVID-19 impacts on the U.S. Health Consumers, Deloitte polled 4,522 U.S. Among the DIY workflows was self-care for health care.

Public Health

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Still, the shift to more decentralized, virtual studies has received a powerful push during the pandemic,” the report said. “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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Blockchain in Healthcare: A Vehicle Towards Digital Health 2.0?

The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

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. One may also imagine the implications for healthcare data security.

Digital Health

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Bonus Features – July 24, 2022 – OCR resolves 11 HIPAA enforcement actions, ONC releases USCDI v3, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. ONC released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 3 (USCDI v3). Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies One in five healthcare marketers is concerned about job security amid growing adoption of AI , according to a survey by Tebra. The HHS Office for Civil Rights released v3.4

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Legislation introduced on requiring the FDA to study medical device data interoperability

On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

Enhancing one of the oldest shared care records: the Care and Health Information Exchange extends into care homes

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Big Tech + Digital Health: Even Big-Ticket Mistakes Won’t Dissuade Companies From Healthcare

Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Bonus Features – July 17, 2022 – Social care vendors commit to interop, only 1 in 6 healthcare orgs have secured IoT, and more

Weekly Roundup – March 25, 2023

The Future of Telemedicine Transformed by Large Language Models

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) - the future of Health Data?

Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Particle Health’s Latest White Paper Offers the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Health Information Network (HIN) Data Exchange Performance Metrics to Date

Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Value-based healthcare – what it means for Thailand

Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Global Healthcare Informatics Market Trends, Forecasts and Competitive Strategies, 2021-2022 & 2023-2031

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Improving Patient-Centricity: Raleigh Radiology’s Journey with PocketHealth

Revolutionizing Hypertension Care with Remote Patient Monitoring

HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Unfortunate Hits on HIT

Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

7 Healthcare Technology Trends for 2022

Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Blockchain in Healthcare: A Vehicle Towards Digital Health 2.0?

Bonus Features – July 24, 2022 – OCR resolves 11 HIPAA enforcement actions, ONC releases USCDI v3, and more

Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

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