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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

Healthcare It News

Analytic expertise is required to help prevent “information overload” and provide healthcare professionals with the tools for integrating and using the data for the betterment of that patient. From a patient´s perspective, digital health applications foster interaction between care teams and patients.

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

Along with the potential of the home evolving as a patient, consumer, and caregiver’s health hub come the realities and challenges of peoples’ daily lives: those social (and other) determinants of health (SDoH) and living situations that are real obstacles for many patients’ discharged to home.