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Health Professional Shortage Areas Alleviated by Telehealth?
More than 82 million people currently live in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA), according to the Health Resources & Services Administration’s first quarter 2021 summary.
This means that roughly 25% of the U.S. population resides in regions without a sufficient...
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Integration and Interoperability: The Future of Healthcare Data
The healthcare technology revolution is coming, but it’s also long overdue. For decades, the technological ecosystems in place to support patient data capture and transfer have been plagued by a lack of interoperability and innovation. Healthcare providers worldwide continue...
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Beyond telehealth – new data-driven solutions for better care
COVID-19 has driven a huge number of breakthroughs in health technology. Some have leveraged existing technology, as we’ve seen with telehealth. But there’s been innovation around the hard stuff too, like genomic sequencing, testing and tracing, and mRNA vaccines.
In...
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How Can We Reimagine Medicare Star Ratings for a Post-Covid Population?
Like so much else last year, Covid-19 interrupted business as usual for Medicare’s STARS program. The decision to withhold ratings was an intuitive one amid the chaos caused by the pandemic. Facilities were overwhelmed by Covid-positive cases; other enrollees...
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The Virtual House Doctor of the 21st Century
Digital technology can transform the home to “hospital of the future”
Powered by digital technologies, the home is becoming the foundation for personalized healthcare of the future. The home has the potential to become the epicenter for delivery of care...
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Time to align healthcare data standards with the reality of care
Even in the middle of the 20th Century much healthcare took place in the home – childbirth, even surgery like appendectomies. There was no medical record. No data. And post-operative care was by family and neighbours.
The second part of...
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Venturing “Into the Impossible” with Virtual and Integrated Care
Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke was famous for many things, including his three “laws”, of which the best known is that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
We’re not quite there in healthcare, but we’ve definitely been...
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