The need to enable and effectively support care coordination across health care professionals (HCPs), patients, caregivers, and other stakeholders, to drive effective and appropriate use of pharmaceutical products, is something I hear my clients in life sciences discussing on a daily basis. Today, many stakeholders already have a stake in this ecosystem but, the ability to deliver consistent, high-quality, reliable service across all channels of engagement remains a game changer.  Recently Deloitte leaders discussed this subject with market participants at an industry conference. 

Epic is making an effort to work with other health IT vendors to improve EHR functionality and interoperability. The  new partnership could point to a larger trend toward collaboration within the health IT industry.

The healthcare industry is in a perpetual state of flux. However, while the progress may seem to move at a glacial pace, that does not discount the need for healthcare organizations from payers and providers to plan for the future.

"The traditional 'silos' of medical, behavioral health and social services can't meet the needs of our population alone," Jim Hickman, CEO of California-based Better Health East Bay, part of Sutter Health, told Healthcare Dive back in November 2016. "Partnerships, enabled by technology and amplified by data-sharing, are the first step in changing the way we deliver care." 

Since the dawn of the digital age, a seemingly endless stream of innovations has promised to improve nearly every aspect of our lives, from how we mail-order wine to the way we mail-order eyeglasses (or clothes, or weed, or whatever). Very rarely, though, does one come along that makes you stop and think not just "I can't believe nobody had thought of this" or "I wish I had," but "I'm grateful someone did."

Named after one of our oldest medicinal tools, Iodine is a massive and growing database on the experiences involved in taking medication, and formatted for free and easy consumer use.