The CMS Making Health Tech Great Again initiative is announced. “Let’s stop waiting and let’s definitely stop faxing. Let’s start building. The right data at the right time can mean the difference between loss and hope. The time is now. Are you in?”
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By Kent Dicks – Over the past decade, health systems have embraced the call to digitize. Telehealth has surged. Digital health apps are everywhere, and wearable devices now track everything from heart rates to glucose levels to sleep patterns and dreams or whether you snore. But with every new innovation comes another login, another workflow, and another layer added to an already overburdened system.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the professional home for senior digital health leaders for more than 30 years, is unveiling an evolved membership model that creates access to its trusted leadership community—supporting digital health professionals at every level of their leadership journey.
By Kenji Taylor MD MSc – Since the advent of generative AI, there’s been an explosion in innovations focused on helping health systems/providers, from revenue to data management to ambient listening. But not as many are developed specifically for the patient.
By Vanessa Justice – The world of health care is on the cusp of a revolution. Patients can conduct medical check-ups from the comfort of their homes using virtual platforms. Their medical records can be accessed and shared across all their healthcare providers at the click of a button.
By Matthew Fisher – mHealth applications focused on women’s health are drawing a fair amount of attention when it comes to privacy practices. These FemTech applications are designed to help individuals personally track different aspects of their health. How does FemTech approach privacy?
By Gil Bashe – If the healthcare sector were a country, it would be the world’s fifth-largest contributor to greenhouse gases following China, the US, India, and Russia. The planet’s health and our own are joined, and the health community must unite with environmental affairs experts to collaborate on what must be done to keep the planet vibrant.
By William Hersh MD – In the last decade or so, a number of new names have emerged for the kinds of activities historically studied, disseminated, and taught by those who work in biomedical and health informatics. Each of these areas has emerged as a “hot topic” in biomedicine and healthcare, with resulting…
When you can’t get off the couch after too much turkey and pumpkin pie, or when you are stuck at an airport like you knew you would be, here are five articles for holiday reading. Safe travels and stay safe this holiday weekend.