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When Will Self-Service Come to Health Care?

Health Populi

Yet despite increased use of EHRs by clinicians and smartphones and wireless technology by patients, the fundamental approaches to managing hypertension, diabetes, and chronic lung disease have remained the same for 50 years… The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point.

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Value Comes to Healthcare: But Whose Value Is It?

Health Populi

Another global view on value is offered in the report, Delivering quality health services: A global imperative for universal health coverage , from the World Health Organization, the World Bank Group, and the OECD.

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Healthcare Is Changing, Right? Here’s 5 Reasons It’s Not.

HIT Consultant

Rising cost pressures from insurance companies, regulations aimed at reducing costs , and a generally complex and fragmented payment system can limit innovations that could improve patient outcomes. Getting information from one doctor to another? It’s all about the money, money, money. And it’s 2023!

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

to 12.2%: 34 health systems ranked by operating margins Healthcare job cuts down 52% year over year Health care providers may be losing up to $100 million a day from cyberattack. From -6.8% HSHS moves up 2nd hospital closure How Dr.