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Why Preventive Healthcare Hinges on Diagnostics Innovation

HIT Consultant

Blood tests, biopsies, and X-rays transformed medicine by allowing doctors and clinicians to look under the surface and better pinpoint the cause of a patient’s symptoms. This is the pivotal role diagnostics will play, but not as it has mostly been known and used since these tools came into working practice.

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17 HLTH 2022 Predictions from Digital Health Executives to Watch

HIT Consultant

As the healthcare world continues to rapidly adopt telemedicine, move toward value-based care, and combat rising pharmacy costs, HLTH 2022 will showcase digital health companies that embrace those trends: medication management solutions, telemedicine services, and population health analytics. In so doing, the U.S.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2022

Healthcare It News

Promising a national EHR database, he said emergency department physicians would be able to quickly gain access to a patient's electronic records and public health officials will be able to see anonymized national health data. "It will help doctors deliver better patient outcomes.