Voice Technology: Can It Help Me Take Better Care of Myself and My Baby?
Our guest writers share the potential of interactive voice technology to support positive stress management skills and positive health behaviors in new parents.
Physician Burnout from a Provider’s and an Advocate’s Perspective
Two people, whose lives have been personally changed because of physician burnout, share their perspectives on an issue affecting almost half of today’s physicians and heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social Determinants of Health: Can ZIP Codes Influence Health Outcomes?
For health systems to start addressing social determinants of health, they must start to think about how these factors play a critical role in patients' health outcomes.
Transparency in Healthcare Explained in 280 Characters or Less
We asked our members to answer the question: How can we achieve transparency in healthcare? Here's what they had to say—in 280 characters or less.
Humanity and the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence
Our guest writer shares two fundamental ways we can use patient care technology—and specifically the benefits of artificial intelligence as a tool—to return some humanity to healthcare.
Precision Medicine: The Promise and the Challenges
Precision medicine, shares our guest blogger, is seeking to make health maintenance, disease prevention, diagnoses and treatment solutions more precisely selectable for each individual.
Social Determinants of Health: Breaking Down the Barriers
Did you know that social determinants of health can affect up to 70% of health outcomes? Building a healthier future means addressing the existence of health disparities.
A Powerful Reminder of How Health IT Improves Patient Safety
Our #IHeartHIT contributor shares how, following the birth of his third child, a personal experience with patient safety reminded him why health IT is so important.
Health IT: We’ve Come a Long Way But There’s Further to Go
A health IT professional shares that while much has changed in healthcare during her journey with the autoimmune disease lupus, there is still much to be done.
Overcoming Obstacles to Social Determinants of Health
There are many obstacles keeping us from integrating the social determinants of health into healthcare. But where do we start with addressing them? Our team outlines the top priority.
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.
Building a Learning Health System for Today and for the Future
Now is the time for health IT leaders to internalize the characteristics of learning health systems and advocate to all of their constituencies so that we can make great strides in improving health and healthcare and reducing costs. Not only can we use health IT to share evidence with c...