Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

A Sponsored Post by Azalea Health. Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009, healthcare has digitized rapidly, with electronic health records (EHRs) now ubiquitous across medical practices – except for within behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

Data privacy and security concerns are paramount, given the sensitive nature of health information and the need to protect patient confidentiality while ensuring accessibility for healthcare providers. Standard data representation, secure information exchange, and human-centric design will simplify care team decisions.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2015

So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. Thus it targeted use of HTTP RESTful, using JSON encoding. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. patients to improve their engagement and independent health management. In fact, the wave of patient portal deployment wasn’t caused by patients’ interest.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

So, how can health systems accomplish this goal? With past initiatives such as Meaningful Use (MU) stage 2 patient portal requirements only requiring 5% of patients to view, download, or transmit their health record , the bar was already set low. Current State of Patient Engagement Programs. Define measures of success.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

The HIPAA regulations are, for the most part, an extraordinarily flexible set of standards that have managed to remain relevant and useful even as the nature of the generation, storage, use and transmission of health information has undergone a sea change in the years since they were first promulgated.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

The HIPAA regulations are, for the most part, an extraordinarily flexible set of standards that have managed to remain relevant and useful even as the nature of the generation, storage, use and transmission of health information has undergone a sea change in the years since they were first promulgated.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

Fast forward a few years and I was at ONC, writing the text of what would become the 2014 Edition of the Certification Criteria for health Information Technology. Document pain scale in the flowsheets section of the encounter. Patient has pain documented and should have a pain care plan. Could they resist?

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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