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The great digital health reset – and how IT leaders should plan for what’s next

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Cloud Computing Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Workforce As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts. Challenges, opportunities for IT leaders.

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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

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Another article in the same week in Business Insider revealed that Apple acknowledged it is " scaling back " a key project, an app called Health Habit. The app allows Apple employees to log fitness goals, manage hypertension, and talk to clinicians and coaches at AC Wellness, the doctors' group that Apple works with.

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COVID-19 and digital transformation

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Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. A key issue has been, and will continue be, how well staff are able to adapt to the new ways of working that are required as a result.

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

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Traditional CDS encompasses digital tools that provide timely information, usually at the point of care, to help clinicians make informed decisions about a patient’s care. PC CDS offers new ways to incorporate patient, caregiver and family perspectives into evidence-based care facilitated by digital tools.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

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"We recently provided testimony before the Missouri legislature about the ties between digital equity and telehealth, how not having internet connections at the requisite speeds means you can't have telehealth", says McClain Bryant Macklin, director of policy and strategic initiatives at the Health Forward Foundation.

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Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

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Layla McCay As the first wave of infections arrived, we saw near-instant digital innovation that might otherwise have taken years: the rapid roll-out of remote working platforms, shared care record projects, electronic patient record configurations, and virtual clinics and consultations.

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NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

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Complementing BEAD is the Digital Equity Act program that is granting $2.5 billion to communities to help residents with training, digital literacy, and fighting the digital divide. To do all of that it helps to have a Killer App as well as fast, reliable Internet. billion has been awarded.