Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For those not familiar with the healthcare interoperability space, you may not know that a major portion of health data exchange happens on open source software called OSS Mirth Connect. Of course, while it’s easy to install, there are some important things to consider as you move OSS Mirth Connect to the cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

EHR Development Standards: New teeth, bigger bite After years of dashed hopes that EHR workflows will achieve true interoperability and allow patients to easily access and share their healthcare data, many are looking at the ONC’s final standards with a skeptical eye and cautious optimism.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

@paul_wilder #TEFCA #RealTalk #HIMSS23 pic.twitter.com/GRX4ewwAWv — CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell) April 18, 2023 Matt Doyle from Epic offered a couple views into why Epic has decided to become a QHIN and support TEFCA. “If There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. Who’s hungry?

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Interoperability is the ability of different information systems, devices, and applications (“systems”) to access, exchange, integrate and cooperatively use data in a coordinated manner, within and across organizational, regional and national boundaries. Health Informatics Trend #2: Consumerization.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The study also utilized CMS SNF quality performance data to compare LGH’s readmission rates with those of other organizations at both the state and national levels. Over the course of the study period from 2017-2022, LGH showed lower readmission rates than other healthcare organizations in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The modern healthcare IT team must possess an array of emerging skills that allow practices to share data while ensuring that no one but the intended targets gain access to it. Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Of course, privacy and AI both make front-page news these days. Concerns over the data protection of individuals dates back to the 1970s. The computerization of daily life has evolved from a set of technical decisions to a matter of urgent public policy over the past few decades. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2020

Historically, health insurers have relied on one form of patient data, while providers operated in a different world. Because it lines up with how they do business, health insurance companies have focused on analyzing patient care using claims data.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 24, 2024

LLMs are essentially AI models trained on massive amounts of health data and text. What can Personal health LLMs do? Health Coaching: Imagine a virtual coach that can analyze your health data (with your permission, of course) and provide personalized recommendations for diet, exercise, and overall well-being.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 6, 2024

Implementing the three C’s: Collaboration, commitment, and clarity, allows us to comfortably course-correct and adapt as changes occur and new information is gathered to mitigate the fear of resistance (Center for Creative Leadership, 2023).

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 27, 2020

It’s not all plain sailing, of course. This is recognised as a long-term issue for the sector, but the new motivation to solve this challenge is bringing longstanding issues around sharing of health data, financing and past failures back under scrutiny. More thought leadership. Looking beyond COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. Of course, with every new technology comes abuse of that technology. What do I mean?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The first is a massive wave of post-pandemic investment in digital health, compounding the existing growth of network-enabled third-party partnerships. Think wearable medical devices that transmit health data directly to a clinic, but also less flashy examples—outsourced printer management, for example.)

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. Quantum Health released research showing its care navigation tool for employers limited healthcare cost increase to less than 1% from 2016 to 2019, compared to nearly 25% for all other companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As we all know, massive data breaches have become far too common in recent times. Of course, healthcare execs are aware of how this looks to the public, and are taking steps to keep members of the public from getting too concerned. According to a study published early this year, one way hospitals are fending […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2024

Yolande Pengetnze, MD, Vice President, Clinical Leadership at PCCI There are two primary issues that compete for the number 2 position.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

A single breach can compromise the health records of thousands, if not millions, of patients, leading to potential misuse of personal data and a loss of trust in digital healthcare solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Leveraging health data, it engages patients in real-time, addressing issues that drive poor health and high utilization of health services. While it doesn’t capture the imagination like Generative AI, Adaptive AI delivers significant value, shifting focus from data to impactful health IT.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 14, 2015

First, Walgreens and WebMD have been collaborating for months on a partnership that brings WebMD tools (namely an online goal-setting/care coaching program) to the Walgreens website, and introduces Balance Rewards-based incentives for users of the WebMD app who are tracking fitness, nutrition, or other health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

What are the gaps in your clinical data, and how could social determinants of health data address them? What SDoH data do you have today? Three Questions to Get Started on your SDoH Journey Should Include: What social care interventions or programs are you offering? How are you identifying at-risk populations?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2024

If the organization only starts providing financial incentives at that point, the opportunity to deploy incentives over the course of the clinician’s first year or so in the value-based journey will have been squandered, and with that an important avenue of engagement.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

My book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , was chosen by Gary’s Book Club as one of nine books this conference believes cover the “hottest topics in tech in 2020.”. Digital health at CES will grow 25% since last year in terms of exhibitors and attendees focused on the category.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

An added complication is that CISOs aren’t just trying to keep information away from adversaries who want to exchange privacy for profit, but also from accidental disclosure in the normal course of doing business. When I coach other CISOs, that’s one of the cornerstones of how I approach leadership. No one is coming to help you.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Deven McGraw , Co-Founder of Ciitizen® and Lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae Corporation HIEs and HINs Should take Key Actions Now to Prepare for the Enforcement of the Information Blocking Rules On Sept. Of course, there are also financial concerns to consider, too.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JANUARY 27, 2022

Because ICSs will bring together NHS, local authority and third sector bodies, they’ll have access to all the data needed to gain a deeper understanding of population health – everything from NHS records to data on education, housing and crime. Crunching the data. Data on life expectancy is a good starting point.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Ellison highlighted how public health didn’t have a way to look across the health of a population. Of course, he highlighted the privacy area here by saying that the data would be anonymized. From a public health perspective, it begs the question of whether you need all the health records like Ellison envisions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2020

You will see businesses who have demonstrated real agility in leadership, strategy, market engagement and most importantly the tech capability to establish a C19 proposition quickly with the end customer in mind.Goldilocks in size, we need scale-ups not startups.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

” I’m seeing lots of good things come forward, but it’s a process that needs to run its full course, because you don’t want to put something in someone’s body that is harmful. You would have fought through the civil-liberties issues of people sharing their health information willingly or not willingly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Contributors include overwhelming workload, administrative burdens, lack of leadership support, limited workplace flexibility and autonomy, and of course, lack of human-centered technology. RPM addresses the needs of health workers, care teams and patients across the continuum of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2024

Of course, we need to start somewhere and it would be imprudent to allow AI to take over tasks with no supervision, but we should focus on areas with transformative potential. Tim Price, Chief Product Officer at Infermedica Integrating AI into healthcare involves navigating patient privacy, data security, and algorithmic bias challenges.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The trick, of course, is to reconcile and balance the promise of data in healthcare with its negative impact on mental health. In turn, it harnesses the power of data for good while feeding our need for content in a compressed form that frees up more of our time. More thought leadership.

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