While Obamacare cemented the deep transformations the healthcare industry is going through today, the system has really been experiencing and bracing for changes for a number of years, starting as far back as 2004 when President George W. Bush declared that “Within ten years, every American must have a personal electronic medical record”. 2014 is here, so… where are we?
During a recent presentation at the Bio2Device Group (B2DG) event, Salim Kizaraly provided an overview and demo of some of the key HIT technologies (e.g. health information exchange, care coordination, remote monitoring via devices, analytics and big data) that are poised to make the healthcare system better, and ultimately help reduce its unsustainable costs.
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