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Care Management Weekly News Update 12/30/21

Posted by DeAnn Dennis on Thu, Dec 30, 2021 @ 11:45 AM

Hospitals, health systems and patients continued to fuel and embrace evolutions in health IT this year amid steady industry growth and adaptations to new challenges. Here are five health IT trends CIOs are watching for next year, from digital health advancements to innovation and cybersecurity.

Authorized under President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP), states have a new option for supporting community-based mobile crisis intervention services for individuals with Medicaid. 

Healthcare IT News sat down with Dr. Ian Tong, chief medical officer at Included Health, a telehealth technology and services company, to get his read on these questions and his predictions for telehealth in 2022 and beyond.

The sudden shift to remote work brought on by the pandemic led to a surge in demand for digital pathology, which involves images instead of glass slides. Adopting digital pathology at scale demands a connected approach grounded on best-of-breed interoperability.  

 

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