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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

Healthcare It News

Paddy Padmanabhan When David Feinberg, head of Google Health, announced this past week that he was departing to take up the CEO role at the EHR company Cerner , media reports took it as an admission of defeat by Google in the campaign to win in the healthcare space. " How did Big Tech get here, and what's next?

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AR/VR in Healthcare: Why Collaboration is its Most Important Use

HIT Consultant

Wyatt Oren, Director of Sales, Telehealth and EdTech, Agora Throughout history, new and emerging technologies have helped revolutionize and advance the field of medicine, allowing medical professionals to develop groundbreaking new procedures, work towards cures to previously incurable diseases, and much more.

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How virtual reality can help address the mental health professional shortage

Healthcare It News

A deluge of digital health apps has hit the market. Many of these, however, are designed to be low-intensity, low-touch; they're mental health apps and tools that guide mindfulness and meditation or don't require the touch of a clinician. Telehealth certainly has made mental healthcare available to many more people.

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The Rise of Culturally Competent Care: Health Equity & Technology

HIT Consultant

Given these figures, it is unsurprising that healthcare providers are actively seeking solutions, particularly through existing and emerging technologies, to overcome their most significant cultural challenges in patient treatment. Have there always been cultural challenges in healthcare? Undoubtedly.

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High Drug Costs Threatening Affordability of Employer-Sponsored Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Constance Sjoquist, Senior Healthcare Analyst with RazorMetrics Large employers report that the biggest threat to self-funding medical coverage is the increasingly high cost of pharmacy claims. Price “spread,” which is the delta between what they spent on medicine and what they charged the self-insured employer, also adds cost.

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Why Healthcare IT Must Embrace Full-Stack Observability for an Increasingly Digital Future

HIT Consultant

Long before the pandemic, digital applications were already incredibly important to healthcare organizations, but over the last few years, they have become essential. More patient apps lead to greater expectations. For providers, apps are critical to schedule and maintain communication with patients.

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Partnering Up in the Health Care Ecosystem to Drive Transformation – for Organizations and Health Consumers Alike

Health Populi

“Partnerships, including JVs and alliances with other healthcare organizations and with new entrants, are just one way to access new capabilities, unlock speed to market, and achieve capital, scale, and operational efficiencies” in health care transformations. Providers, payers, and pharma comprise the bulk of revenue.