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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

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Paddy Padmanabhan When David Feinberg, head of Google Health, announced this past week that he was departing to take up the CEO role at the EHR company Cerner , media reports took it as an admission of defeat by Google in the campaign to win in the healthcare space. " How did Big Tech get here, and what's next?

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California Consumer Privacy Act can cause headaches for healthcare orgs

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A new study published in this month's issue of Health Policy and Technology found, however, that healthcare organizations may face obstacles when it comes to complying with the law. They argue that, in general, healthcare organizations face a lack of regulatory clarity and uncertain likelihood around reinforcement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Why voice recognition is the new competitive battleground in healthcare's digital transformation

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Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

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Annually, billions in government spending to replace obsolete networks passes over big cities, and is squandered by large telecom and cable companies before broadband reaches rural homes. "Speed" is how quickly data can go from Point A to B. "Capacity" refers to your data being able to move from Point A to B.

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Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

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HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare thought leaders, disruptors, and changemakers across Asia-Pacific will convene once again in Indonesia – this time in the country's capital, Jakarta – from 18 to 21 September 2023. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Where IT leaders should focus their energies in 2022

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David Chou Since the arrival of the pandemic, healthcare organizations have faced a cultural shift. This represents a big opportunity for innovation. If we can seize this moment, we may be able to make this a uniquely transformative year for healthcare. Region Tag: Global Edition. ' and more. Work from anywhere.

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Navigating the intersections of population health and precision medicine

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Patient Engagement Population Health Precision Medicine This is the second article in a series regarding process-based opportunities as the healthcare industry begins to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic. Implications for healthcare. Population health and precision medicine defined. health system.

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