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How Misinformation in Health Care Can Lead to Being “Dead Wrong” — KFF and Dr. G Connect the Dots

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G” through her public health-informed broadcasts in the Miami media market during the pandemic. “Misinformation” has taken on many names: infodemic ( coined by the World Health Organization in August 2020 ), fake news, conspiracy theories, and malinformation among the monikers. People in the U.S.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

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As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

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A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. hospitals.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

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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. In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

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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. This isn’t a universal belief among all health citizens, but a majority still embracing science for medicine].

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North Carolina launches new stroke registry linked to NC HealthConnex

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The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority, housed within the state's Department of Information Technology, announced this week that it's working North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to launch the N.C. Stroke Registry.

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Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

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.” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. What if home was our health hub?”