Strategic Planning

Having individuals connected by one identifier is good for information sharing and for attracting the private-public partnerships that are essential to moving forward, says Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.  

High efficacy, less time, higher cost-savings and better care outcomes for patients when using XR training were the results of a recent report, according to Pearly Chen, VP of business development and partnerships at HTC VIVE.  

Quy Vo-Reinhard, dHealth Foundation director and cofounder, said a focus on education is critical to address key challenges such as interoperability, secure health records and blockchain-enabled EHRs.  

The combined organization would operate 19 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations with nearly 14,000 team members, organizations say.

Thirty-nine percent of the announced transactions in Q3 were spurred at least in part to financial distress, Kaufman Hall finds.

The value-based network will enable rural hospitals to meet the increasing challenges of delivering healthcare. 

Financial challenges in the coming year include lower volumes of COVID-19 vaccinations and testing, company says.

Optum growth led the way, with the subsidiary's revenues growing 22% year-over-year to $56.7 billion.

TEFCA implementation and FHIR standards need to address effectiveness and expense issues, say FAST cochairs Deepak Sadagopan and Duncan Weatherston.

Jacqueline de Leeuw, CNIO at Radboud University Medical Centre, said that during the process of achieving HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 certification her organization was challenged to become better digitized.