How to Move the Needle on Vaccines for Children
Standards and resources are some of the biggest challenges hindering the transfer of information on vaccines for children. A pediatrician and health IT advocate outlines both the struggles and the solutions needed to tackle this public health challenge.
How the Smart City Movement and IT Are Transforming Health
The smart city movement is driven by the demands of an evolving digital ecosystem and governmental systems across the globe are reaching for IT to modernize systems while simultaneously improving the quality of life for citizens.
The Changing Landscape of Quality Measures in Healthcare
It’s an issue around the globe—how can we implement quality measures in healthcare to reimburse providers based on improving care and outcomes? The U.S. is trying with its new value pathways.
Communication and Collaboration: Key to Advancing Innovation Policy
How we approach innovation policy is key to the future of health globally.
Smarter Supply Chain Management: Four Ways to Increase Clinical Integration
Here are four tips to help your organization improve its supply chain management through clinical integration.
The Front Line: Thoughtfully Leveraging Technology in a Pandemic
In a challenging environment, health systems are leveraging a variety of information and technology tools to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
How Femtech is Advancing Women’s Health
Women’s health innovation holds massive potential to break the barriers contributing to health disparities, but it’s taken a while to reign in more focus on the topic. Here’s why.
Immediate State and Local Strategies for a Public Health Emergency
There are many short- and long-term policy and funding mechanisms that state and local jurisdictions in the U.S. can leverage to scale-up their efforts using health IT to combat a public health emergency like COVID-19.
Pharmaceutical Supply Chain with Blockchain: Drug Tracking, Tracing and Verification at the Last Mile
Under the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act, pharmaceutical supply chain will need to trace prescription drugs as they're distributed. One study shares how blockchain can save costs and enhance data security to help ensure medications reach the patients who need them.
Healthcare Regulation: Opportunity and Inhibitor for Data Sharing
Our digital influencer shares how healthcare regulations, such as HIPAA, present fewer barriers to data sharing than commonly thought.
How Longevity Will Boost the Silver Economy
For the first time in history, people aged 65 and over outnumbered children younger than five globally, making seniors a growing market for products and services in this silver economy.
Influencing Public Policy with Health Advocacy
Recognizing the positive effect health advocacy can have on public policy in times of change and stability, we’re sharing the stories of advocates making a difference in health IT.