The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need to modernize the nation’s public health system. Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. public health infectious disease data collection and analysis methods which are critical for identifying behavioral risk factors and preventive actions. The Problem Unfortunately, inefficiency remains a hallmark of the U.S. public health surveillance system
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The Next Era of Healthcare Will Be Built On These 3 Principles
The U.S. healthcare industry has hit an important inflection point. The global pandemic highlighted an increased need to deliver quality patient care. However, outdated, legacy technology is straining many health systems, and in some cases, exaggerating existing problems such as rising operational costs and high rates of attrition. Health and hospital systems must take a purposeful approach to IT modernization — which includes embracing new technologies — to ensure success. And while each IT
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How Digital Transformation is Accelerating Healthcare and the Impact on Hospitals in the Future
The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health technologies across the healthcare industry. Digital transformation is now the top priority for many healthcare leaders as they seek to build resilient systems. At its core, this means implementing emerging digital technologies to modify essential operations, processes, and services to ease staff workload and withstand future challenges. The primary drivers of digital transformation are consumerism, cost, and experience/expectations,
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5 Digital Health Executives Share Their Key Takeaways from HIMSS23
John Erwin, CEO of Carenet Health I was pleased with the robust turnout at HIMSS this year; it does seem like the healthcare industry is making up for the lost time from the pandemic. The topics that dominated the conference included teasing out the nuanced approach to safely deploying Chat GPT/AI into the industry (and when not to), health equity, and the patient journey. Workforce burnout continues to be a major issue in healthcare, though I think we could have
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Rimidi Announces Integration with MEDITECH Greenfield
What You Should Know: Rimidi, a leading clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, enhance patient experiences and achieve quality objectives, today announced the company is now integrated with MEDITECH Greenfield.MEDITECH customers will now able to utilize Rimidi’s cloud-based software platform within their existing workflow, further enhancing efforts to support efficient models of care for chronic disease management through Fast Healthcare Interoperability
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KLAS: Ambulatory and Enterprise EMR Interoperability 2023
What You Should Know: Interoperability is a continued area of critical focus for the healthcare industry, according to a new report by KLAS.For its latest report, KLAS talked to vendor-identified deep adopters to take a holistic look at the current state of interoperability in ambulatory and enterprise EMRs and measure how close we are to an ideal state. The results reveal each vendor’s strengths and weaknesses within various areas of interoperability. Exploring Ambulatory and
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Redox and Verato Integrate to Accelerate Patient Data Interoperability
What You Should Know: Verato and Redox today announced a partnership that will combine Verato identity data management solutions with Redox’s composable technology ecosystem to enable improved data access, better interoperability, and higher-quality information gathering across a growing digital ecosystem.The integration will allow healthcare organizations to access a single source of truth for identity, including a complete and trusted 360-degree view of their patients, members, providers,
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1upHealth Raises $40M for FHR Data Platform
What You Should Know: 1upHealth, a modern data platform that’s cloud-based, API-enabled, and FHIR-native today announced the close of a $40M Series C investment led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from existing investors F-Prime Capital, Jackson Square Ventures, and Eniac Ventures. Founded in 2017, 1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and
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Thinking Beyond CRM to Reach Healthcare Consumers
A new type of purpose-built technology is necessary to manage patient relationships. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are commonplace in nearly every industry, though their use in healthcare is complicated. Healthcare is incredibly complex and unique in many ways, and many generic CRM or CRM-like solutions address only one or two elements of the patient journey, such as appointment scheduling and reminders, without factoring in personal needs and preferences, health histories,
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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals
Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Additionally, digital transformation can support medical research and drive innovation in healthcare, as well as generate new revenue streams. An increasingly important tool as hospitals undergo these transformations is federated learning, a technology that we will expand on later. Federated learning is a machine learning
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