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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These were among the results of a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which offers answers and recommendations related to coordinated response to future pandemics, protection of front-line healthcare workers and improved EHR interoperability.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Digital Health Global

Overall, we can positively say that a new mindset has been established: healthtech is no longer seen as a nice-to-have “add-on” to healthcare. It is a key ally in the effort to make healthcare more accessible, agile and effective. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the obvious solution to the issue.

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HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The purpose of cross-collaboration is to improve aspects in digital healthcare, such as quality, outcomes, safety, interoperability, sustainability, and accessibility of care.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare stakeholders need the patient data that healthcare providers possess. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The patient engagement space will see M&A activity with those vendors with the most intuitive and interoperable user interfaces staying strong. The enterprise imaging IT space will drive up to $2 billion in investments toward imaging workflow efficiency, interoperability and analytics.

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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Health Information Exchange (HIE): Healthcare informatics enables secure and seamless sharing of patient information across healthcare organizations, fostering care coordination and collaboration among different providers. This data can be used to conduct studies, identify trends, and develop evidence-based interventions.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare. The nonprofit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded a roundtable on sharing SDoH data, organized and led by the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE).