Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The definition provided for administrative cost within the proposal is the “nonclinical costs of running a medical system,” the greatest of which fall under billing and insurance costs (BIR). Data interoperability, the ability to make health information flow seamlessly among providers, is the final part of Cutler’s proposal.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

For the second consecutive year, Advocate Health is proud to champion CancerX, a cornerstone program of our expanding national innovation network, said Rasu Shrestha MD, MBA, chief innovation and commercialization officer, executive vice president at Advocate Health. The first Accelerator cohort in 2024 saw some incredible results.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2024

And while 81% of baby boomers (likely all still working then) were online, only 30% of the 75+ population was, despite the possibility of connecting with families and gaining access to health information. In 2011, text messaging, instant messaging, social networking had not reached the 66+.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Developing a culture of cyber- and health privacy-awareness must be a priority for health providers, who as they look to patients for greater health engagement, must bake their trust into health information systems. “The challenges created by legacy technologies are, by definition, decades in the making.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 23, 2024

A good example is Observation.category code of 'vital-signs' -- indicates vital signs that are normal health information of no stigmatizing sensitivity. Must security tags be used? No, ABAC is based on Attributes. So any attribute can be used. No real need to dig deeper (maybe). Some ABAC rules can't be implemented with security tags.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Here’s the 8 reminders: Reminder #1 – The information blocking definition’s limitation on the scope of electronic health information (EHI) is lifted as of October 6, 2022. Reminder #4 – Not all health information that’s electronic is EHI under the regulatory definition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

State laws and policies should also define consumer health data with the uniform language defined as protected health information under HIPAA, the group said in its announcement this week. healthcare system."

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange. This Provenance definition is now in mXDE along with examples and requirements CapabilityStatement.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Availity , one of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks, announced a definitive agreement to acquire the utilization management solution and business unit from healthcare automation company Olive AI, Inc.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. ” Bolstering that partnership is peoples’ growing self-education about health: since before the start of the pandemic, 3.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

Ryu will serve as CEO of Risant Health when the merger is approved. In New Jersey, meanwhile, Cooper University Health Care and Cape Regional Health System have also recently signed a definitive agreement to merge resources. While neither has reported financial distress, many U.S. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 17, 2024

I’m not sure it will last forever, but it definitely has more staying power than the basic FitBit devices that we all wore for a few weeks and then put in our drawer (or even better donated to Recycle Health ). The biggest difference for me was the depth of health information that it’s collecting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The following is a guest article by Lauren Riplinger, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“The security of online data is the top consideration for consumers across many forms of online activities including email, search, social media, banking, shopping and dating”… and using health apps. A new poll from Morning Consult, explained on their website, explains that For Consumers, Data Privacy Has a Fluid Definition.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

Tell us a little bit about yourself and Bamboo Health. My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health. At Bamboo Health, were committed to transforming physical and behavioral health through innovative technology solutions. Definitely.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The kiosks include a pole-cart on wheels with a wireless tablet with touch-screen, high-definition camera, Eko Duo Bluetooth stethoscopes enabling physicians to see a graphical representation of stethoscopes readings, and an ECG option for simultaneous ECG and heart sound tracings.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 17, 2020

HIPAA Designated Record Set Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, behavioral health specialists are required to provide patients access to the protected health information (PHI) contained in their designated record set. Definition of Designated Record … Read more. What is a designated record set?

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Scott McFarland is President of HealthBI , where he leads the organization’s health information technology platform team. The practices get information to help address social determinants of health via the platform as well. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

” In addition, there is a growing risk of cybersecurity hacks of patients’ personal health information, with stories reaching local news media on a regular basis. Edelman defines the informed public as U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. If your organization handles protected health information (PHI) or electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), you should be well aware of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act known commonly as HIPAA.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

USCDI v3 includes updates to prior USCDI versions focused on advancing more accurate and complete patient characteristics data that could help promote equity, reduce disparities, and support public health data interoperability.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

"The patient follows the tablet's voice and text instructions, and device information, to self-report vital health information and answer condition-specific questions. There is definite value with continuing to monitor patients after a home care episode, Joyce noted. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Rural Health Information Hub breaks down various definitions of frontier designations, but a common one is six or fewer people per square mile. All but one of One Health's clinic locations serve communities that meet the frontier definition. THE PROBLEM.

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

A good definition of blockchain is: “A blockchain , [1] [2] [3] originally block chain , [4] [5] is a continuously growing list of records , called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. [1] Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). And the next chapter begins!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Justin Villines, MBA, HIT Policy Director at SHARE HIE – I think us being a health information exchange and being that state-wide utility for all our clients and all our participants, it’s ever-evolving. You’re seeing some HIEs further along, but it’s definitely a concept we’re talking a lot about.

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

Perhaps the best definition of patient safety is that of the World Health Organization. Simply put, it is “…the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care.” Improving health literacy. Patient safety initiatives have taken many forms. I would like to highlight a few.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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