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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

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Today there's a huge push to integrate social determinants of health data into these larger datasets, but we remain in a situation where that data is either not collected or too general to be useful. This leads to death and preventable hospitalizations, among other terrible outcomes. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Urgency-driven innovation in healthcare

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” “Transformation was slower than many would have liked,” agreed Ryan Hodgin, CTO, Global Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM. It was that digital alternatives were being adopted as viable solutions to meet increasing care demands. “Digital reinvention wasn’t being implemented wholesale.”

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CIOs' 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies

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One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.