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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

Given that Harm recently participated in the annual 2025 HIMSS conference , I was keen to know how his collegial physicians and health IT professionals were reacting to the idea of unvendoring. RPA is a great example of health technology in the unvendor environment. JSK note: more on the word roadmap later in this post].

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Bonus Features – October 13, 2024 – 85% of clinicians waste at least an hour a day on admin tasks, 82% of healthcare organizations hit with a cyberattack experience a disruption to patient care, plus 20 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Another ASTP/ONC post found only 20% of HIE organizations are using HL7 FHIR APIs to send and receive data. A survey from the Peterson Health Technology Institute found 86% of providers plan to maintain or increase their level of digital health spending in 2025.

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

Christian Dameff and colleagues from UC-San Diego answer the question by saying, yes, PHRs are indeed more promising in this smartphone era with the advancement and adoption of FHIR standards that help make electronic health records more inter-operable.

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Bonus Features – November 3, 2024 – 95% of consumers want an easier way to pay medical bills, 90% of medical devices aren’t running anti-malware software, plus 35 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

The latest report from Peterson Health Technology Institute concluded digital hypertension solutions warrant broader adoption , especially if they come with medication management features. A Gozio Health survey found 80% of healthcare leaders say their solutions for patient self-management are only somewhat effective.

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2024 HL7® FHIR® DevDays Top 5 takeaways (a newbie’s take)

Redox

This year marked my inaugural voyage to HL7® FHIR® DevDays , alongside my Redox colleagues, Autumn Ike , and Mike Paetz. This expert community built around FHIR is as collectively passionate as they are incredibly knowledgeable. This expert community built around FHIR is as collectively passionate as they are incredibly knowledgeable.

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 1 – Bulk FHIR

Redox

Up first: Using bulk FHIR. What is bulk FHIR? Like many aspects of HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ), there has been a lot of hype about the potential of using bulk FHIR to get large amounts of data out of EHRs. That’s where bulk FHIR comes in.

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Amwell Releases Open Platform for Integrating Multiple Virtual Care Applications

Healthcare IT Today

Telehealth vendor Amwell has released a platform allowing providers to integrate multiple types of virtual health services using a single infrastructure. Amwell’s Converge platform is designed to integrate with existing workflows, EHRs, patient portals and consumer digital health technologies. Its goal is to […].

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