Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. I explain th e current state of cybersecurity and health data insecurity in a new HIMSS blog linked here. You can read the full HIMSS blog here.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

This is important because in 2017, one in four new drugs approved by the FDA were designed to treat a small population, falling. The team analyzed data-sharing guidelines across 230 policy documents published between 1996 and 2017. The third bar chart identifies the policy themes referenced in these data-sharing policies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

Currently, all notifiable conditions (an instance of a communicable illnesses) go through eHealth Exchange electronically, but we are working to further role out case investigations to allow public health agencies to query for additional information when they receive a notification rather that using old-fashioned phone calls or faxes.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. 46% of U.S.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 12, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state medicaid agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

This time, the FTC has issued a proposed order demanding BetterHelp stop sharing consumers’ health data. million to settle charges that it shared sensitive health data, including data on consumers’ mental health challenges, with third parties including Facebook and Snapchat.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since 2017.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 24, 2023

Partnership supports patient matching across more than 28 million lives in Arizona and Colorado MCLEAN, Va., & PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Verato, the identity experts for healthcare, and Contexture, the largest health information organization in the western U.S.,

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 21, 2021

As modern technology becomes indispensable in health care, the vulnerabilities to cyber-threats continue to increase, compromising the health information and safety of millions of people. In May, 2017, the WannaCry ransomware encrypted data and files on 230? May 16, 2017; [link] Date accessed: February 12, 2019.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 million civil penalty against GoodRx.

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Xealth

MAY 7, 2024

Enrolling the patients is the first step in any remote patient monitoring (RPM) program, but the data needs to be easily accessible by researchers and care teams. Enrolling the patients is the first step in any remote patient monitoring (RPM) program, but the data needs to be easily accessible by researchers and care teams.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

million for “deceiving consumers after promising to keep sensitive personal data private.” ” Unprecedented in telehealth history, the sharing of sensitive health information in early 2023 is poised to shatter provider naivete about working for large-scale business entities entering healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

Researchers detected behavior consistent with fraud and abuse by identifying excess expenditures in hospitalization claims from 2017 and validated their methods based on Department of Justice data. Nova Scotia Health chose MDclone to enable the use of synthetic health data for research.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features. Patient portals give users an online view of their health data, as do PHRs. The patient accesses the information through a secure portal,” ONC says. Source : [link]

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Lloyd Price

MAY 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted widespread use of real-world data (1). Desperate for medical insights without delay, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies turned to health information captured through real-world data sources. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

OCTOBER 28, 2022

On the surface, the apparent lack of anonymity may be unnerving, but it comes nowhere close to the pervasiveness of medical software that collects the most private forms of information about one’s biology and health records. This demand has prompted cyber thieves and nation-state actors (e.g.,

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The event in Quebec was called “Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017: Unwinding the harms of too much medicine” and it is part of an ongoing global effort aimed at reducing unnecessary prescriptions, tests and medical treatments worldwide. It really was almost like being there, minus the croissants.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

Given a Health Information Exchange, or Nationwide Health Information Exchange, there will be a variety of capabilities and use-cases for the hundreds-thousands of various Document Consumers. A Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) CDA document vs a CCDA CCD. are laying around. Why publish multiple formats?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 28, 2024

The increased use of technology in patient monitoring raises concerns about data breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive health information. Studies underscore the importance of implementing robust security measures to protect patient data, which can add another layer of complexity to RPM implementation.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

Specifically, the new code allows providers to bill the CMS for time spent collecting and interpreting remotely generated health data. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). FYI, she was a valuable peer reviewer for the health care privacy chapter in my book, HealthConsuming. Why is this so important? Boy, was I wrong.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“Our new data shows that the public has a definite opinion about what issues they feel companies should address and the social impact bar has been set high,” according to Amy Terpeluk, senior partner at Finn Partners. adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. The Index is based on a survey of 25,800 U.S.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Healthcare is a $3 trillion+ industry wrought with waste and middlemen.Two insurers, UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, are among America’s largest firms by revenue, bringing in $200 billion and $185 billion respectively in 2017. By June more than 500 hospitals were connected to the Health Records app representing 50 health systems.

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