HIMSSCast: How digital health can lower costs and enhance care delivery
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The pressures on healthcare are significant. But many experts believe digital health can help hospitals and health systems cope with these pressures.
There are various challenges in healthcare driving up costs, impacting both providers and patients. But there are advancements in care delivery helping alleviate inflationary pressures.
Digital health has a role to play in lowering costs and bridging these divides for providers as well as patients. And different patient demographics are responding differently to rising healthcare costs and digital transformation.
In this week's HIMSSCast, Thom Bales, U.S. Health Services Advisory Leader at PwC, also known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, addresses these concerns and dives in to where digital health and its various technologies can help.
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