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The $2.8M Medicine: How Data Can Help Insurers Pay for Life-Changing Therapies Without Breaking The Bank

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Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag. Data can show factors like how effective a drug is in reducing total treatment costs over a lifetime or how many people may be able to avoid surgery or other procedures by using a certain drug.

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RTLS & AI: Solving the Riddle of Healthcare Inefficiency

Healthcare IT Today

Many healthcare systems around the world are overburdened. How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people.

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Digital Health Disconnect Creates Unnecessary Roadblock to Patient Engagement

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In the race to roll out telehealth offerings and digital patient engagement tools during the height of the pandemic, many providers and health plans inadvertently created a rag-tag assortment of patient portals, health apps and clunky websites that can be impossible to navigate and even more difficult to integrate with existing tech infrastructure.

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Technology is radically improving care for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

to virtually “step into” field hospitals and assist physicians, in real-time, when treating wounded service members. In today’s digital world, data analytics and machine learning are some of the biggest drivers of innovation, especially within the healthcare industry. Department for Veterans Affairs.

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

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PC CDS incorporates patient-provided information – such as data from medical devices, wearables and patient-reported outcome surveys, as well as social determinants of health and patient preference data – directly in the office, home, or other community-based setting. data content) and syntactic (i.e.,

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

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Developing low- and middle-income countries are relying primarily on COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, which is co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and the World Health Organization.

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Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) have benefited greatly from the acceleration and adoption of technologies such as AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Workflow platforms that leverage RTLS data automatically keep tabs on key patient flow metrics and ensure staff know where all patients are in their care journey.