Weekly Roundup – October 21, 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. Driving Patient Behavior and Connecting Patients With Care Teams. Patients are embracing the notion of monitoring their health every day, but health systems aren’t, John Lynn discovered in a chat with Rich Steinle and Scott Pradels at Carium. The conversation also covered how to remove barriers to adoption of remote monitoring technology. Read more… How Will Data Utilities Evolve? We asked this question to the Healthcare T Today community at the recent Civitas Conference. Experts agreed that health data utilities are in their early stages but will start to see additional value when they engage with government agencies in their communities and enable data sharing across state lines. Read more… Understanding Social Determinants of Health. In the first post in a series, Andy Oram described how data can can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. This becomes increasingly important as value-based care models take hold and more providers are judged on their ability to address non-clinical effects of clinical outcomes. Read more… Defining and Sharing SDoH. It’s difficult to address SDoH if you don’t understand what they are, Andy noted in his second post. Defini...
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