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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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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. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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New Blockchain ledger will let US residents sell personal Healthcare data

Lloyd Price

IBM and a start-up have launched a blockchain-based app that lets patients eventually sell anonymized data to pharmaceutical companies, researchers and others while retaining greater control over privacy. Karlin is formerly the head of clinical, informatics and regulatory strategy at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co

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Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Healthcare IT Today

Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

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Creating a 360-Degree View of The Continuum of Care

GlobalMed

She lives alone and relies on her Social Security check and Medicare. The PCP could share more information about Hazel’s medical and pharmaceutical history while the hospital could share her discharge summary. Patients can get faster care, avoid readmissions and the higher costs of more complex care. Hazel’s Story. Hazel is 81.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time.

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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

care innovations

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Read more here.