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This week's top stories include 73 health plans earning five-star ratings for 2022, up from 21 in 2021, and cyber experts warning of an "aggressive" threat actor targeting healthcare.

The telehealth and digital health innovations that started during the pandemic are here to stay, says Sri Bharadwaj, VP of digital innovation at the Franciscan Alliance.

Armin Scheuer, VP of Business Development International at HIMSS, says Germany is prescribing apps to patients within their normal care setting, in the form of DiGAs, and France has decided to replicate the system.

Matthew Fisher, general counsel at Carium, talks about bedrock principles of patient privacy, advances in RPM, CMS rules around non-physiologic data and how telehealth should fit into the continuum of care going forward.

Using AI to check medication histories helped limit face-to-face contact during the pandemic, says Rebecca Sulfridge, clinical pharmacy specialist, emergency medicine, at Covenant HealthCare.

The three big trends in health IT standards are around public health, global health and the API economy, says Amit Trivedi, director of Informatics & Health IT Standards at HIMSS.

Adobe's Tom Swanson and Anil Chakravarthy and CommonSpirit Health's Adam Rice discuss using digital solutions to meet patients' needs for personalized service while following privacy regulations.

Analytics can improve social determinants of health, health equity and value-based care efforts, says Dr. Mike Dulin, chief medical officer at Gray Matter Analytics and a professor at UNC Charlotte.

This week's top stories include Cerner mandating that all U.S. employees be vaccinated by Dec. 8, digital musculoskeletal care company SWORD Health acquiring Vigilant Technologies, and air ambulance charges rising substantially in four years.

Using formerly siloed data, the juli app helps patients manage complex conditions such as asthma, depression, bipolar disorder, migraine and chronic pain, says juli.co CEO Bettina Hein.