Healthcare IT Today December 26, 2019
Over the past decade we have moved from a world where more than half of healthcare processes were paper-based to one that is mostly electronic. We also saw the rise of patient portals, a movement towards value-based care, the implementation of a new billing code system and an explosion of health data.
It’s hard to pick just one development from the past decade of Health IT as THE ONE that stands out the most, but that’s exactly what John Lynn and I tried to do on a recent episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast. My pick was government regulations. Nothing else had a bigger impact on healthcare in my opinion.
Things got started with the Health Information Technology for...