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Will 2024 see a reboot of Google Glass-style headsets in Healthcare?

Lloyd Price

Challenges to a 2024 reboot: Regulatory hurdles: Medical devices need to meet strict safety and privacy regulations, which could delay the approval and adoption of Glass in healthcare settings. These improvements could address some of the previous limitations of Glass and make it more viable for healthcare applications.

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Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

Lloyd Price

Consumers are starting to expect the same level of flexibility from healthcare as they get from other industries “First and foremost, Amazon sees a highly inefficient, highly regulated and potentially very lucrative multitrillion-dollar global healthcare market,” says Jeff Becker, a senior tech analyst at US market research company Forrester.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

Providing this context and 360-degree view of the patient can be done by aggregating data from a variety of sources — imaging, patient records, labs, etc. Communication is the key to making anything work – including your organization. The following is their insights on the aforementioned questions.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

The second largest waste component was pricing failure, associated with medication pricing failure (the largest piece of three components), payer-based health services pricing failure, and lab and ambulatory pricing. A study in JAMA published this week analyzed research reports that have measured waste in the U.S. of the U.S. of the U.S.

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Patients – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Yet, 55% require help navigating the process of applying.

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Weekender 8/10/18

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. CMS releases a draft rule that would overhaul the Medicare Share Savings Program. UnitedHealth Group is reportedly the only non-financial company that’s in the running to acquire Athenahealth. Northwestern Medicine (IL) lays off 60 IT employees after completing its Epic go-live. Everyone else gets to cover the tab. Vaporware? ).

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Healthcare Generative AI and Data – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Steve Kent, Chief Product Officer at Know Labs 2024 will be a seminal year for advancements in medical monitoring due to the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and as a subset, machine learning (ML). As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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