Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News U.S. Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024, which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches. Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology. The 29 members of the EHR Association shared concerns with ONC about upcoming deadlines for  Certified EHR Technology deadlines given the complexity of needs specified in HTI-1 and beyond. Median hospital margins hit 5.2% in January, according to the latest data from Syntellis. That’s the highest that margins have been in about two years. Studies More than 90% of healthcare executives agree that AI capabilities are expanding and will improve their organizations, according to Accenture’s Technology Vision 2024 report. That said, 69% of consumers want healthcare orgs to develop guidelines on privacy, ethics,...
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