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Four Components Of An Effective Technology Rationalization Strategy In Healthcare Mergers And Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in healthcare are common. Although 2022 saw a drop in the number of M&A deals per quarter (down 400 per quarter from 600 the year prior), specialists expect M&A activity to rise again in 2023.
Read moreHealthcare’s Digital Transformation: How DevSecOps Protects Data
The global digital health market is expected to grow 17.5% by 2027, reaching a total valuation of $456 million. These organizations manage—and create—a ton of data. In fact, one-third of the world’s data volume is generated by the healthcare industry, making it a prime target for cybercriminals.
Read moreHow Blockchain Can Revolutionize Healthcare Records Access and Security
One of the great challenges for the healthcare industry has always been patient privacy. Whether it’s a hospital setting, a physician’s office, or a child’s vaccination records required by a school, we are right to be cautious with sensitive medical data.
Read moreThe Changing Face Of Healthcare: The Rise Of The Middlemen
“The significance of the intimate personal relationship between physician and patient cannot be too strongly emphasized,” the great Boston physician and Harvard professor of medicine Francis Weld Peabody wrote in “The Care of the Patient” back in 1927. To Dr. Peabody, the clinical and the personal were deeply intertwined; a deep sense of intimacy between the physician and patient was essential to healing.
Read moreCan AI Fix The U.S. Healthcare System?
John Guttag is a computer scientist and professor at CSAIL and EECS MIT, recognized for his significant contributions to the fields of programming languages and artificial intelligence.
Read moreGoogle Is Rapidly Becoming A Healthcare Powerhouse
Healthcare is a complicated industry, muddled by a variety of intricately woven challenges, delicacies, and nuances that are unique to the sector. Tackling these challenges is certainly not for the faint-hearted, especially in the modern era of continuously changing regulatory demands, technological developments, and evolving patient and public health needs.
Read moreThe Urgency For Wage Reform Education And Healthcare Sectors
In an era marked by escalating tensions between the public and private sectors, a widening wage gap in many nations, coupled with struggling educator pay scales, has underlined the urgency for significant federal pay policy reform.
Read moreBringing DEI To The Forefront Of Healthcare Marketing
TJ Martin is CEO of Cramer, a brand experience and content marketing agency with a division dedicated exclusively to healthcare.
Read moreInterSystems unveils integration’s impact on #healthtech growth
The adoption of standards like HL7® FHIR® is key to helping #HealthTech companies achieve better #interoperability and integration between different services and applications. Find out from InterSystems sales manager Vadim Fedorov how the solutions can effectively solve #healthcare interoperability challenges. Read more here.
Read morePaging Dr. Taylor Swift: The Healthcare Hero We Need
Anyone and everyone who spends over a decade mastering their craft wants ownership and control of their work. Physicians have fallen victim to this loss of autonomy in an ecosystem that continues to place a premium on volume and efficiency over meaningful connection and consideration. We arrived here by attempting to stay in our lane and letting the business of medicine be managed by the businessmen.
Read moreCognitant have partnered with DrDoctor and Patients Know Best
Clinicians can now easily share validated, interactive education materials from Cognitant’s Healthinote CKD library to patients via SMS (text), embedded videos and via the NHS App. This has been made possible following end-to-end integrations with fellow leading patient engagement and…
Read moreInnovationRx: 70% Of U.S. Adults ‘Concerned’ About AI In Healthcare
Around 70% of U.S. adults surveyed by Morning Consult said they are “concerned” about artificial intelligence in healthcare. The most concerned group was Baby Boomers at 77% percent, while Millenials and GenZers were tied at 63%. People surveyed were most comfortable with the idea of AI assisting with administrative tasks, and, in good news for all of the companies competing in the ambient AI space, 48% of people said they would be OK with their medical appointment being recorded and using AI to take notes. The lowest level of comfort at 34% was with AI being involved in helping perform surgical procedures. A strong majority – 3 out of 4 people – say healthcare providers should notify patients when AI is going to be involved.
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