Becker's Healthcare January 4, 2022
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives released its end-of-year annual trends in digital health, revealing six key findings in 2021. Using data and knowledge from the hospitals and centers participating in the CHIME Most Wired survey, it pulled together the top digital health trends for health systems across the nation.
Here are six trends that made it into the report:
1. COVID-19-related tech
The pandemic has spurred 87 percent of organizations to adopt patient flow systems, encouraged more than 90 percent of organizations to report vaccination data to relevant bodies, and inspired some hospitals to invest in contact-tracing technology.
2. Less value-based care
The financial pressure of the pandemic caused the shift to value-based care models to slow...