Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, the voice of the patient is magnified one-to-many, omnichannel and multi-platform — via video, blogs, podcasts, social networks, listservs… and, yes, still in live forums like AA meetings, church basements, Y-spaces, and the Frazzled Cafe meet-ups in Marks & Spencer retail cafes across the UK.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. So what are patients most keen to access online in their medical records or portal?

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health). .”

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2024

Patients’ experience with health care in the U.S. adult consumers’ perspectives defined “patient experience” (PX) as, “The sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: There’s a new social determinant of health in town, and it’s broadband connectivity. The lack of broadband to rural health citizens exacerbates disparities by preventing people from digital engagement in their health and caring for loved ones.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs. Doing so is central to building trust between patients, families, and providers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

More would like to use tech to access and transmit personal health information to their doctors, to monitor health issues, along with health and fitness improvement goals. The design challenges, which are suggested in the third experience chart, are evident.

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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

JULY 27, 2020

Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S. That’s the required sausage-making behind the scenes of Capgemini’s bullish forecast on digital health consumers. could develop a national COVID-19 pandemic surveillance system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

Increased availability of health information, services and social networks online can also improve patient experiences. between rural and urban health citizens, as well as other digital gaps based on demographics like income and education, bode ill for the promise of telehealth and other aspects of digital health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. b.well Connected Health updated its platform to offer a configurable AI architecture.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But trust is a precursor to health engagement, so trust can be a barrier to patients and providers working together to improve healthcare. In addition to the EHR/screen-time challenge, there’s also a data/health information concern: patients expect health providers to be good data stewards, protecting personal health information.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Health and our health information are deeply personal. Changing health care and inspiring positive health behaviors is hard to do.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

That’s why 73% of health executives told Accenture they plan to develop internal ethical standards related to the use of AI to bolster responsible use of patients’ personal health information. Together, these three concepts blur lines across physical and simulated, immersive worlds.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

health care system challenges Quincy who feels isolated and dis-empowered when it comes to their care – both in terms of accessing services and their personal health information, which is difficult to get. The lack of continuity of care due to fragmentation adds to the cost of care in this health care world.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. The post Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

Hospitals are falling short of consumers’ experience-expectations, Kaufman Hall explained in their 2017 State of Consumerism in Healthcare Report with the apt sub-title, “Slow Progress in Fast Times.”. These benefits can’t be realized in healthcare without the enterprise health cloud ensuring privacy and security.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

In addition to these aspects, I’ll also be tracking women’s health, mental health, and technology that can scale solutions to the risks of the social determinants of health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the case of patient data collaborations between Big (or small) Tech and health care providers, keeping the patients’ best interests central — transparent, on an opt-in basis, with the consumer-health citizen in control of her/his personal health information — should be a central tenet of these deals.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2024

For many health systems, customized interfaces are expensive and labor-intensive In 2017, the American Hospital Association released data on the importance of interoperability in healthcare and how connected, shared health information can help achieve the best possible outcomes.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With this type of service navigation, Providence Health can ensure that the required license level is designated for the visit, reducing care cost and ensuring availability of providers for the appropriate level of care. ” Patient Experience with Grace Bot. Here is a look into the patient experience.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

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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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2023

Consider this ecosystem diagram from the World Heart Federation, roadmap for digital health in cardiology. It’s a circular, iterative process of empowering patients and providers, improving long-term patient outcomes and patient experience, promoting universal health services coverage, and ultimately reducing health care costs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sharing data in a public health crisis is important for both identifying people who have been infected to stop-the-spread of the virus, as well as sharing personal health information for developing treatments to cure disease. For consumers to share the intimate asset of their personal health data, the situation requires trust.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Patients’ self-diagnosing conditions online is a new-normal for people engaging with health information online — whether via WebMD and the ClevelandClinic.com or via TikTok — a growing platform for medical information. physicians, citing the problem.

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2018

Healthcare is getting connected in the emerging Internet of Healthy Things, within the legacy healthcare system and at home via remote health monitoring, on our bodies via wearable tech, and on the move in our connected cars (see this post in Health Populi for more on the car as the third healthcare space).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Europeans are health citizens; Americans aren’t…yet. Adopting Open Source Healthcare will underpin Americans’ health citizenship through greater transparency, consumer control of their personal health information, and user/patient-centered design for health and wellbeing.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2024

My experience has taught me that regardless of payor or provider, most successful healthcare organizations have a deep understanding of their patient populations and fluctuations within it. We can take advantage of that insight because there are already some clear guidelines on how to de-identify Personal Health Information (PHI).

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2022

Peloton, for connected fitness. Spotify, for health information as well as mis-information. Android, for connectivity. Fitbit, for connected health innovation. TED, for health story inspiration. Calm, for mental health and wellbeing. Instant Pot, for healthy cooking at home.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2024

Getting AI right — that is equitable and most useful — will be a team sport bringing diverse and inclusive data together with health ecosystem stakeholders, playing fairly together in patients’ trusting their sharing personal health information with those organizations who will develop, deploy, and use AI-informed clinical decision (..)

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2025

Some important insights here are that, Non-White people (Black and Hispanic) are more likely to have ever used LLMs versus White adults (which may be a positive sign for healing digital divides that prevent many health citizens’ access to health information and services) Younger people tend to use LLMs more than older people, with use declining (..)

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2025

.” Now a week later, into week 2 of President Trump and teams assumption of the White House and sorting through dozens of executive orders pertinent and adjacent to health and health care, I have to ask the question: can the private sector fill in for public sector health information gaps? The answer is “no.”

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