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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Many of my beloved and brilliant colleagues are convening this week at HealthDataPalooza and the National Health Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

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The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

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health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

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When you’re on the battlefield and you can’t see what lies ahead, go high, recommended General Von Clausewitz in his book, On War.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. Simply put, is the equation, “Spend more, get less” a sustainable business model? Of course not.