What does 2023 hold for healthcare technology, as innovation continues at rapid speed, policymakers and regulators try to keep up with the pace of change – and health systems large and small deal with significant budgetary shortfalls that could hamper their ability to build out their digital transformation efforts?

It's anyone's guess what the next dozen or so months hold for value-based care, telehealth and remote monitoring, digital therapeutics, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and other healthcare advancements. But we had a go at it anyway.

Mike Miliard, Susan Morse and Emily Olsen – executive editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews, respectively – sat down recently to gaze into the future and discuss what they see for the year ahead in their own fields of coverage.

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Talking points:

• The future of the public health emergency and the flexibilities it allows.

• A "perfect storm" of financial stress for hospitals and health systems.

• Labor shortages and supply chain challenges.

• Silicon Valley and the state of VC funding for digital health startups.

• How providers are leaning on their EHR vendors to help them manage challenges.

• Automation and how it can help clinician burnout and back-office processes.

• Cybersecurity and the patient safety risks of ransomware.

• Interoperability requirements: information blocking, the No Surprises Act and more.

• FDA and evolving regulations for digital therapeutics, software as a medical device.

• AI and machine learning – building better algorithms for healthcare.

• Health equity and SDOH – how they're being addressed by forward-thinking providers.

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Telehealth's future after the end of the public health emergency.

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Q&A: How retail healthcare, telehealth trends could evolve in 2023.

Q&A: Where digital health funding could go in 2023.