When talking about increasing access, it’s essential to remember that there is a difference between making healthcare more accessible and simply increasing patients’ access to appointments, pointed out Lee Schwamm, chief digital health officer at Yale New Haven Health System. In this article, he explains three steps hospitals can take to actually boost accessibility.

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Digital health platform Ayble Health partnered with Mayo Clinic to offer patients a hybrid care model for digestive health that matches them with the appropriate virtual and in-person services based on their acuity and needs. The hybrid care model is available for large employers and health plans.

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The Covid-19 pandemic shone a harsh light on how siloed the public health infrastructure is, and the ONC is working along with other government agencies to integrate it with the existing data-sharing ecosystem. According to Dr. Micky Tripathi, head of the agency, standardizing data will be essential to this integration.

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The country is boldly moving toward a new era of nationwide interoperability. Earlier this week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) proposed new regulations aim to require health data sharing among care organizations, reduce information blocking, and simplify patient access to their own health data. ONC is expected to further bolster […]

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