Weekly Roundup – January 6, 2024

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 first week of 2024. 2024 Health IT Predictions: Health Equity. As in past years, we asked the Healthcare IT Today Community to offer their predictions for the year ahead. First up is health equity, where our experts anticipate an emphasis on bidirectional data sharing, collaborative care, and community health. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: Cybersecurity. Given the ever-evolving threat landscape, our experts had no shortage of cybersecurity predictions for the new year. Highlights included an accelerated move to zero trust, a reexamination of cybersecurity toolsets, and a renewed focus on incident response and resilience. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: Telehealth and Virtual Reality. In 2024, our experts see care at home, chronic condition management, mental health, and virtual nursing dominating the telehealth conversation. Meanwhile, VR could play a greater role in treating developmental disabilities. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: Value-Based Care. To truly achieve VBC, our experts foresee a greater role for community health, a broader focus on marginalized populations, and an expansion of SDOH data collection. Drug prices may also be in the crosshairs in 2024, for use...
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