Health Tech Startups, Innovations, & Consumers – What’s the Future for HealthIT? – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/2 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Jessica DaMassa (@jessdamassa), host of WTF Health on the topic of “Health Tech Startups, Innovations, & Consumers – What’s the Future for HealthIT?”.
Is the ‘tech revolution’ – you know, the one that started with smartphones changing the way we live our daily lives – finally about to overthrow healthcare? For years, tech giants and tech startups alike have fought for their piece of our $3 trillion dollar industry. They’ve battled for more open access to data, suffered through years of Interoperability Showcases, and waited for patients transform into a market of ‘healthcare consumers’ with dollars and expectations that demand more from healthcare than fax machines and siloed patient portals can ever provide.
Is 2018 the year that tech has finally arrived? Busted the borders and crossed over to the other side?
Already, investment in digital health startups has blown past last year’s record-breaking $5.7 billion total to $6.8 billion invested through Q3 alone. Apple Health Records are deployed in more than 75 health systems, and Amazon up and decided to just start its own healthcare company with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan. The FDA is evaluating and approving digital therapeutics. Uber rides are reimbursed by Medicare. Even the AMA, who just two years ago condemned digital hea...

Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Healthcare Innovation Healthcare Startups Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Source Type: blogs