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Employers Feeling the Healthcare Pressure

Digital Health Wire

Employers are among digital health’s most important customer bases, and the Business Group on Health’s annual survey is one of the best ways to get a pulse on their healthcare priorities. Some stats that caught the eye: Employers expect healthcare costs to spike 8% in 2025 – the highest jump in a decade. Pharmacy has risen from 21% to 27% of employer healthcare spend from 2021 to 2023.

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Bonus Features – August 25, 2024 – A Larger Percentage of Payors Accept Fax Submissions for Prior Authorization and Use Faxes to Return Prior Authorization Determinations in 2024 Than Did in 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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A summit on a Global Patient co-Owned Cloud (GPOC)

BMC Digital Health

During the last thirty years the world has benefited from the increasing adoption to cloud-based storage of personal health records. The concept of a Global Patient co-Owned Cloud (GPOC) of personal health rec.

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