Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions ! Additionally, individual plans often have unique processes, which can result in variations, efficiency challenges, and data aggregation inconsistencies. The answer lies in harnessing data.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.” Seven in ten U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.” CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2023

Healthcare’s National Network Data Exchanges , analyzes not only quantitative comparisons of the data currently exchanged on HINs but also the work that still needs to be done in order to spread the true value of the networks across all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem. 2023: State of U.S. The paper, 2023: State of U.S.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Membership will drive continued innovation in interoperability, foster collaboration with industry leaders and ensure understanding of current regulations and standards for clients leveraging the dbMotion Solution , Altera’s data platform that aggregates and harmonizes data from multiple systems to improve patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Health Commons Project , a leading nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare access and quality through technology and innovation, today announced it has completed the acquisition of OneHealthPort , Washington State’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and prominent provider of health data solutions.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

The military health system currently struggles with ways to collect and communicate health information from warfighters on the ground, whether in theater or in garrison. “The ability to electronically capture health data will be of vital importance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hark and Todd Goughnour, VP, Health Information Management, discuss the value of data quality in this video. Even more important than correct billing, Goughnour says, is making informed decisions for patients. AI also produces inaccurate models if it is based on bad data. Some 58% still have data in legacy systems.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Abel Kho, director of the Center for Health Information Partnerships at Northwestern University and co-founder of Health Data Link, says that addressing the fragmentation of data in healthcare is needed to make the most of blockchain technology.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. We first note overall that fewer patients, year on year 2021-2023, seem willing to share data with ANY entity.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data. Alderman also talked about several prominent use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure. If the future of healthcare is built on the back of data, then it makes sense why health data infrastructure would be such an important topic.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

This included an update on CommonWell’s new technical service provider, ELLKAY and their recent designation by the federal government as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). CommonWell has been working with some of these clients to look at innovative data workflows. and their journey to TEFCA.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

“If data is everywhere, how do you protect it?” This thought has been on my mind well before the Change Healthcare hacks (that’s plural) with which U.S. health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security?

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect. With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. mobile consumers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. How are health data utilities evolving? Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Remote health monitoring solutions such as remote patient monitoring (RPM), has revolutionized how physicians manage and treat patients, particularly those with chronic conditions. Healthcare providers can now use advanced medical devices to track important health data. These conditions often need regular checks of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Crescendo Health’s real-world data platform creates partnerships between researchers and patients to gain greater longitudinal insights into health outcomes from clinical research. The company also announced an initial $3.4

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. "As a doctor, the potential of new technology to improve patient care seems limitless.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Health information exchange is about more than just the technical connections, it also requires policy and culture support for sharing clinical data when and where it is needed. Thanks to her long-earned expertise as a patient advocate and health IT nerd, McCollister is an extremely informed patient.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

When health data can be freely and easily exchanged between providers, doctors can make more informed care decisions, care is faster, waste is reduced, and patient experience is improved. This analysis is possible because the data inside MEDITECH is interoperable and therefore easily retrievable and standardized.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2021

had allowed third parties to access data about providers via its virtual waiting room. In other words, that information was also potentially being shared via the URL with third parties. No patient health data was exposed. Data sent to those third-parties were basic browser details (version, operating system, etc.)

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 10, 2024

ORLANDO, Florida—The industry continues to make substantial gains in health data exchange and interoperability, according to new data released by health information network Surescripts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2024

The following is a guest article by Heather Randall, PhD, Chief Compliance Officer at TrustCommerce Regardless of whether the information is clinical, financial, or demographic, patients are increasingly worried about the possibility that their personal data could be compromised.

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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. Our customers are ready.

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