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IT leaders prioritizing patient experience, value-based care in 2019, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Ramping up value-based care initiatives and improving the patient experience are top priorities for health IT leaders in 2019. At the same time, IT executives say they are facing significant technology and operational hurdles to advance these initiatives such as the ongoing lack of system interoperability.

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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Nine in 10 of them, in fact, are offering or piloting telehealth programs, according to the new 2019 HIMSS report, "Telehealth: Disrupting the Care Delivery Paradigm." hospital or health system where they work, 64% said they offer inpatient specialist consultation, and 61% said they offer remote patient monitoring.

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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

Health Populi

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The three of us will be on a panel addressing retail health disruption at CES 2019 on 9th January 2019 at the Digital Health Summit.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

The post Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. If anyone can help us close the gap between what’s possible for telehealth versus where we are “now,” it’s this CEO of ATA.

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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

This year’s study was designed to compare current clinicians’ perspectives with those garnered in the 2016 and 2019 studies. 93% of physicians see advantages in digital health tools for patient care, split by 44% seeing “definite advantages” and 49% seeing “some advantage.”

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Reducing costs, improving patient experience top of mind for health system leaders: survey

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare executives identified declining reimbursement, the patient experience, maintaining and upgrading IT, and cybersecurity as the top challenges their facing health systems in 2019.

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5 Exciting Dental Tech Trends In 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

The dental industry experiences new and exciting tech developments every year, and 2019 is seemingly no exception. The innovations are not only modernizing practices, but they are leading to improved oral care and smaller appointment times, which can each support the patient experience.