HIMSSCast: 2021: A Year in Review & Look Ahead to 2022

HIMSS Media editors talk about digital health IPOs, ransomware, value-based care and more.
By Healthcare IT News
04:07 PM

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 at MobiHealthNews – to look back at the biggest health tech and finance trends of the past year and 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.

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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 2022

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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