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

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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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. into the precision medicine category. Note that autonomy and privacy rank with the most mentions.

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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. A big piece of addressing the cybersecurity healthcare challenge is educating people who work in healthcare settings, and that has been under-funded.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2018

The first chart shows consumers’ concerns about health care expenses over time, comparing perceptions in 2009 and 2017. By 2017, just under one-half of Americans were concerned about healthcare and health insurance costs, and 34% concerned about routing medical expenses.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Last week, The Lancet published its comprehensive study on the Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The study looked into the food intake among people in 195 countries and their health outcomes (mortality and morbibidity).

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Public Health Digital Health Health Information Primary Care 213

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

APRIL 11, 2019

Although nearly all hospitals provided patients with the ability to electronically view and download their health information in 2017, most of the organizations had fewer than 25 percent of patients activate access to the hospital’s patient.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For more on the connected car as a third-space for health care, see my post from CES 2017, Your car as a mobile health platform. In the meantime, Amazon announced several HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills in April 2019 that will be just the beginning of this fast-growing phenomenon for voice assistants in health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

At Columbia, South Carolina-based Prisma Health, "we’re on a journey pursuing aspects of digital health," said Dr. Mark Wess, the health system's vice president and chief health information executive. "The asynchronous virtual visit for primary care is one of those."

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states. In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

On July 18, 2017, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, tweeted this: When I saw this tweet, I was especially struck by Gomes’s phrase, “Designed & developed with heart/love by my @DICEGRP.”

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In 2017 alone, dietary risk factors were responsible for close to 11 million deaths and 255 million disability-adjusted life years across the globe. The global healthcare landscape is facing an unprecedented challenge – the surge in diet-related chronic conditions. billion in 2016 to a staggering 6.3 billion in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

eHealth is one of the tools that could be used towards achieving VBHC, and the MOPH has a long-term strategy to drive the growth and development of eHealth from 2017-2026. The last lesson is to take a problem-driven approach.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In another settlement announced in 2017, 21st Century Oncology, Inc. In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. 21CO) faced a $2.3

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Health Information HIPAA Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare IT 128

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since 2017. According to the FTC, GoodRx has been funneling personal health information from these consumers to advertising companies and platforms such as Facebook, Google and Criteo, along with other third parties such as Branch and Twilio.

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Health Information Telehealth HIPAA Health Data 81

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

The company was founded in 2017 and built natively in the cloud using FHIR as the easiest way to connect, control, and compute on health data. More than 75 enterprise health plans and health systems operate on the 1up platform with 35+ million patients.

Health Data 107

Health Data FHIR Interoperability Health Analytics 107

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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Health Information Health Data 83

Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

In fact, a 2017 survey found that two-thirds of healthcare consumers would prefer seeing a doctor via virtual visits. Telemedicine, however, is more specific and refers to the use of electronic services allowing doctors to communicate with other doctors and give consultations to patients without an office visit. Telehealth in 2019.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

There is also a big push for increasing a patient’s autonomy around their personal health information and the access they have to it, especially via personal devices which are likely to be used in the future to communicate directly with providers, if they aren’t already. FHIR and APIs.

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health. According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

According to the company, more than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website since 2017.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

Recent telehealth adoption statistics show a strong growing trend in favor of the service - According to a 2019 report from nonprofit FAIR Health , telehealth utilization grew 53% from 2016 to 2017 nationwide, more than any other service, including urgent care, retail clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, and ERs.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

” The OECD broadly defined the phrase in their 2017 paper on the topic as follows: Mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are among the most important technologies in the digital economy today. The digital divide in the U.S.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The last time I did a year-end report was at the end of 2017 - HIE Future is Bright - stepping into 2018. I likely just want some of the positive meeting dynamics, while noting that most of the time the meetings were compulsory and a waste of time.

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Xealth

JUNE 12, 2024

health systems. The Health Information Resource Center SM (HIRC), organizer of the Digital Health Awards, is a national information clearinghouse for professionals who work in consumer health fields. Xealth spun out of Providence St.

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Digital Health Health Information EHR 59

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The FTC press release published on February 1 explained that GoodRx operates a California-based digital health platform making prescription drug discounts, telehealth visits, and other health services available to consumers. More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since January 2017.

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Xealth

MAY 7, 2024

Patients use wireless health devices near a Stel Hub. Stel passively and securely connects the device data to their care team’s Electronic Health Records (EHR) or preferred platform without risking Protected Health Information (PHI) or complicated workflows. Xealth spun out of Providence St.

Digital Health 72

Digital Health EHR Health Information Connected Care 72

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 10, 2019

Critics also fear hackers could use the system to identify sensitive information, and that private companies could use the records for commercial gain. Errors of this type occur due to either alleged fraudulent Medicare claims or manual human processing errors, as was the case for breaches reported during the 2017-2018 financial year.”

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. 2 While mHealth apps may have improved needed care access, some have secretly collected and sold sensitive mental health information to other companies.3 PrivacyInternational.org, October 23, 2017.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Interestingly, I didn’t observe the same vigor around PFDD from payers and health systems as sponsors, but I’m optimistic they’ll jump on board as key opinion leaders in the drug/medical product development process, since the healthcare ecosystem is a small world comprised of codependent partners.

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Xealth

DECEMBER 1, 2023

health systems. The Health Information Resource Center SM (HIRC), organizer of the Digital Health Awards, is a national information clearinghouse for professionals who work in consumer health fields. Xealth spun out of Providence St.

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Digital Health Health Information EHR 52

Digital Health Global

APRIL 12, 2023

The company was founded in 2017 and built natively in the cloud using FHIR as the easiest way to connect, control, and compute on health data. More than 75 enterprise health plans and health systems operate on the 1up platform with 35+ million patients.

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Health Data FHIR Interoperability Digital Health 68

Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Specifically – if doctors and nurses choose to exchange information about their patients' health via WhatsApp – can patients count on this private data to remain safe – according to the standard set by the protected health information (PHI)? You might think – that was then.

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