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Can AI Make Healthcare Human Again? Dr. Topol Says “Yes”

Health Populi

Verghese, and since you’re reading the Health Populi blog, you must get to know Dr. V now. Your first dip into his wisdom should be “A Doctor’s Touch,” his TED talk from 2011 with over 1.5 million views. You will thank me for pointing you to this pearl. You will want to know more.

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Manage your health data, or trust blindly? Setting the stage for a data disaster, part 2

Society for Participatory Medicine

That’s pretty much what happened to me ten years ago this month, except it wasn’t my money, it was my health data. That was ten years ago this week, and to understand what’s happening in health data right now, it helps to know how we got here. Do portable medical records matter?

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. The variety of organizations that provide data (clinical settings, labs, community-based organizations, etc.)

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Diabetes, Vaccines, and the Patent Troll

Insulin Nation

The site has not been updated since 2011. Critics in the medical community have accused Dr. Classen of cherry-picking statistics to suit his hypotheses, comparing apples to oranges with health data from different countries, and misrepresenting studies to back his claim.

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Evidation and Duke BIG IDEAs Lab Partner to Boost Participation and Increase Equity in Digital Health Research

Digital Health Global

As of 2011, African Americans and Hispanics combined to make up 28 percent of the U.S. Digital health solutions can only help close this gap with a clear understanding of how to reach and engage underserved populations. About Evidation Evidation creates new ways to measure and improve health in everyday life.

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Spotify Health: Big Tech's latest new entrant into Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Spotify plans to use Neko Health's technology to develop new features for its music streaming service, such as personalized playlists based on a user's health data. In 2022, the company launched a pilot program in the United States that provides mental health counseling to Spotify employees.

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What is homomorphic encryption for healthcare data?

Lloyd Price

The CryptDB system: While not specifically developed for healthcare data, the CryptDB system was designed to provide database security by using a homomorphic encryption technique. It was developed by researchers at MIT in 2011 and used homomorphic encryption to protect sensitive data stored in a database.