MARCH/APRIL 2021 Vol. 3, No. 2 CONTENTS


6 TEN TRANSFORMATIVE TRENDS 2021 The Trends Shaping the World of Providers Right Now


In this package of articles, produced annually, readers will be able to look at the most important trends shaping the policy, operational, and technological landscape for providers in the coming years:


8 Will COVID-19 Lead to Adequate Investment in Public Health Infrastructure?


10 The Healthcare Policy Year Ahead 11 Getting Real About Health Equity


14 Moving Hospital Care Into the Home: A Pandemic-Fueled Surge


16 Has COVID-19 Permanently Pushed Open Hospitals’ Digital Front Doors?


20 Pandemic Shines Spotlight on Need for Comprehensive Primary Care


22 The Plunge Into Risk: A New Calculus for Physicians and Hospitals


26 For SDOH Standardization, Gravity Project’s Pull Creates Hope


27 The New Revenue Cycle Management


28 On the Policy Front, Lots of Action at the State Level


COVID-19 SPECIAL SECTION


32 Community Health Plan Goes Digital for ‘Greatest Patient Engagement Challenge’Ever By Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor


Technology is facilitating public health outreach during an extremely critical time in the pandemic


34 Philly-Area Health Systems Work on


Vaccination Outreach By David Raths, Senior Editor


Temple Health, Cooper University Health Care plan community outreach, pop-up clinics


6 COLUMNS


2 EDITOR’S NOTES What’s Your Mars Mission? By Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief


DEPARTMENTS 4 INDUSTRY WATCH 36 CYBER CORNER


What It’s Like to Respond to a Ransomware Attack By David Raths


During SIIM webinar, imaging informatics executive Sylvia Devlin recalls efforts to respond to an attack that severely impacted radiology and imaging workflow


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