2021: A Year in Review & Look Ahead to 2022
Description
Host Jonah Comstock is joined by editors from all three HIMSS Media brands — Kat Jercich, senior editor at Healthcare IT News; Susan Morse, executive editor at Healthcare Finance News and Laura Lovett, executive editor — to look back at the biggest health tech and finance trends of the past year, and to chat about what to expect in 2022. We'll be taking a few weeks off after this, so enjoy the final HIMSSCast of the year.
Talking points:
- Trend: Health tech companies going public through SPACs
- Trend: Hospital staffing shortages and staff burnout
- Trend: New care modalities, especially in the retail world
- Trend: Virtual services accelerated by COVID-19
- Trend: Innovation in kidney care
- Prediction: More ransomware attacks
- Prediction: More hybrid and online primary care
- Prediction: More hospital at home services
- Prediction: Bigger strides toward value-based care
- Prediction: Rethinking insurance
- Prediction: Moving forward with interoperability and price transparency
More about this episode:
Digital health in 2021: A look back
The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring
Healthtech companies reap benefits of robust year in venture capital funding
Looking back on a year of interoperability milestones at eHealth Exchange
The biggest healthcare data breaches of 2021
Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 202
A turbulent year, and a retooled future, for the VA's EHR rollout
2022 will require augmented intelligence, IoT and wearables data, and info outside EHRs
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