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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

Turbocharging, really inspiring that bold statement is the love of a son for his parents coupled with tech-innovation chops that could, indeed, eventually bring that audacious claim of being health care’s OS to fruition. That’s why Seqster calls this solution “patient-centric interoperability.”.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Older people, in particular, would be more likely to use digital health tools if their clinicians recommend these technologies. Thus, Philips asserts that health care professionals are becoming “true digital collaborators,” seeing positive impacts on the way they and their patients experience health care.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

The public sector has invested in a unified EHR (Epic for All) with full data interoperability and citizen access/control of data. Federal gun legislation is passed and investments in cybersecurity are maxed in this scenario, with policies and procedures in the workplace taken seriously by all health citizens.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

patients’ electronic health records lack the level of interoperability that the COVID-19 pandemic could have better leveraged. That’s the required sausage-making behind the scenes of Capgemini’s bullish forecast on digital health consumers. That’s a big if: in the U.S.,

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Enabling families to have their voice during the Continuing Care Process

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Figures for the last quarter show that almost 500 children had been waiting for treatment for more than a year and although recent health policy has brought an increase in funding and staffing, it is believed that only 25% of those needing care actually receive it.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Rutledge says that Medicare, which already penalizes hospitals when one of their patients is readmitted within 30 days, will increase penalties if the hospital has not addressed the patient’s SDoH.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019.