Weekly Roundup – May 13, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. With Data Quality, We’re Still Learning the Lesson Charles Babbage Taught Us in 1821. Two centuries ago, the Englishman introduced the world to the concept of Garbage In, Garbage Out. At HIMSS23, Colin Hung tuned in to a session with Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture and learned that providers have little trust in the patient data they collect – and even less trust of the data from outside their organization. Read more… Searching for a New Angle to Address Health Equity. Building on our previous posts on data and health equity and technology and health equity, we asked the Healthcare IT Community to weigh in on how to approach health equity from a different angle. We received recommendations to address health inequity by improving medication management, prior authorization, clinical trials, remote monitoring, patient education, and behavioral health, among other things. Read more… Exploring Augmented and Virtual Reality Apps for Training. In conversations with Inteleos and Mobiquity, Andy Oram unpacked how VR can simulate health assessments and how AR can train emergency responders for disaster situations. The goal: Train more people in less time so they’re ready for real-l...
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