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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One such issue is interoperability. This was in addition to a massive acceleration of digital transformation, including a thousand-fold surge in telehealth visits from veterans from March through June 2020. "We all have been talking about interoperability, and that will have a profound impact."

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Pharma Quality Care AI Cybersecurity and Privacy Health Information Exchange Interoperability Workflow Regulation EHR Patient Access Life Sciences Care Analytics Data and Information Process Public Policy Core Technologies

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Note that telehealth was not nearly the only digital health tool employed by consumers and clinicians during the pandemic; clinical trials leveraged connected devices, care team emails proliferated (part of telehealth, broadly defined), and disease management apps supported patients managing chronic conditions from home.

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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

Telehealth happens across the U.S. Virtual and telehealth services are available to all, everyone connected to ubiquitous broadband which is provided as a public utility. The public sector has invested in a unified EHR (Epic for All) with full data interoperability and citizen access/control of data.

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Will Salesforce succeed in Healthcare where other Big Tech companies failed?

Lloyd Price

A focus on interoperability: Salesforce is focused on promoting data interoperability in healthcare, which is a critical challenge facing the industry. Salesforce is working to develop solutions that can help healthcare organizations achieve interoperability, which can improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

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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. ” Implications of the changing telehealth landscape.

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Intelerad Acquires Life Image, Establishing the Clear Medical Image Exchange Market Leader and Path to a Global Open Image Exchange Network

Healthcare IT Today

“Bringing together two of the industry’s leading image exchange providers further solidifies Intelerad’s commitment to helping clinicians and patients lead the revolution in imaging from a world of siloed PACS to a future of interoperable image exchange.”. Leading healthcare systems have been pushing for seamless interoperability. “At