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Joseph Walent

Joseph Walent


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Technology: Enabling better healthcare delivery on a global scale

Innovative, technology-enabled solutions are needed to combat the well-known problems of healthcare delivery, including rising healthcare delivery costs, data-sharing inefficiencies among stakeholders in end-patient care and a shift in how healthcare is funded. At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition earlier this month, speaker and former President Bill Clinton urged attendees to keep up the rapid pace of innovation and expansion of healthcare information, citing leading indicators of effective expansion of IT systems in healthcare, including decelerating healthcare costs stemming from the incorporation of electronic health records (EHRs) domestically and internationally. Clinton said the advances...

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