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Through its partnership with DispatchHealth, MedStar Health is now providing care in patient homes after hospital stays, emergency visits or through virtual healthcare referrals.

Andy Sajous, a leader in digital transformation, explains. He discusses the tradeoffs of building versus buying artificial intelligence tools and describes some crucial actions CIOs should take going into 2025.

New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says. 

The combination of 5G and IoT could redefine remote healthcare, getting closer to a future where patients can receive hospital-grade care from anywhere. And more user-friendly and patient-centered devices should drive broader adoption.

Hospitals didn't have Change Healthcare on their radar as a risk when the ransomware attack affected them, says John Riggi.

Its single cloud-based database integrates emergency department, ambulatory, financial, revenue cycle and enterprise resource planning data, the company said.

He has boasted about the accuracy of subscription-based Grok artificial intelligence for analyzing medical images, but physicians and researchers say the model's ability to diagnose medical conditions is limited, and privacy experts have concerns.