HIMSSCast: How digital health can lower costs and enhance care delivery
The pressures on healthcare are significant. But many experts believe digital health can help hospitals and health systems cope with these pressures.
There are various challenges in healthcare driving up costs, impacting both providers and patients. But there are advancements in care delivery helping alleviate inflationary pressures.
Digital health has a role to play in lowering costs and bridging these divides for providers as well as patients. And different patient demographics are responding differently to rising healthcare costs and digital transformation.
In this week’s HIMSSCast, Thom Bales, U.S. Health Services Advisory Leader at PwC, also known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, addresses these concerns and dives in to where digital health and its various technologies can help.
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Talking points:
- The top challenges in healthcare. What is driving up costs and what has the impact been on both providers and patients.
- Advancements in care delivery helping alleviate inflationary pressures.
- The role digital health plays in lowering costs and bridging these divides for providers as well as patients.
- How different patient demographics responded differently to rising healthcare costs and digital transformation.
- How health systems think about addressing the diverse needs of patients via digital health.
More about this episode:
What do ‘digital transformation’ and ‘digital health’ really mean?
Physician adoption of digital health tools is accelerating, AMA research shows
One company’s efforts to expand digital health access
The great digital health reset – and how IT leaders should plan for what’s next
How IT and digital health tools can help manage economic and workforce challenges
Creating successful digital health solutions requires end users’ input
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