HIMSCast: How digital health can reduce costs and improve healthcare delivery

The pressure on healthcare is great. But many experts believe that digital health can help hospitals and healthcare systems deal with these pressures.

There are several challenges in healthcare that are driving up costs, impacting both healthcare providers and patients. But there are improvements in healthcare delivery that are helping to alleviate inflationary pressures.

Digital health can play a role in reducing costs and bridging this gap, both for providers and patients. And different patient groups respond differently to rising healthcare costs and digital transformation.

In this week’s HIMSSCast, Thom Bales, US Health Services Advisory Leader at PwC, also known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, discusses these concerns and dives into where digital health and its various technologies can help.

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Talking points:

  • The biggest challenges in healthcare. What drives up costs and what are the consequences for both healthcare providers and patients?
  • Advances in healthcare delivery are helping to alleviate inflationary pressures.
  • The role digital health plays in reducing costs and bridging this gap for both healthcare providers and patients.
  • How different patient demographics responded differently to rising healthcare costs and digital transformation.
  • How healthcare systems are thinking about addressing patients’ diverse needs through digital health.

More about this episode:

What do ‘digital transformation’ and ‘digital health’ actually mean?

Doctors’ acceptance of digital health tools is accelerating, according to AMA research

One company’s efforts to expand access to digital health care

The great digital health reset – and how IT leaders must plan for the future

How IT and digital health tools can help address economic and labor market challenges

Creating successful digital healthcare solutions requires input from end users

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