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Consumers May Not Be Well Informed About Uses Of Patient Health Data

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Over the last several years, concern has grown among healthcare professionals over the ways patient data is being used, and just as importantly, how well patients understand what those uses are. However, if a new study is any indication, a minority of consumers understand the extent of the health data being shared, and many have […].

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The Role of Patient-Generated Health Data and Wearable Technology in the Future Innovation of EHR Systems

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So today we are going to narrow our focus down to patient-generated health data and wearable technology. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to ask what role do patient-generated health data and wearable technology play in the future innovation of EHR systems? The following are their answers.

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The Value of Sharing Health Data Between Acute Care and Post-Acute Care

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” Watch the video for more on the potential for achieving ROI through digital sharing of health data. Still, it is “too early to tell whether standards are producing results.”

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Top 5 Risks to Address when Converting Data to MEDITECH Expanse

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Note: While this article addresses specifically converting data to MEDITECH Expanse, most of these principles apply to any EHR data conversion. With Expanse, MEDITECH has delivered a single EMR platform that gathers all the health data needed for treatment […].

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Clean, Usable Health Data and the Impact of Sharing Data with Partners

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Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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Jonathan Bush, Patient Access to Health Data, and Is Epic a Monopoly? with Brendan Keeler – Part 3

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We wrap up this interview series withBrendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health , with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic’s rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data.

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Alphabet’s Buyout of Fitbit Sets It Up To Rule The Consumer Health Data Business

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The agreement positions it to become the top vendor in the maturing market for patient-generated health data. In early November, news broke that Google parent Alphabet had agreed to acquire wearables maker Fitbit for about $2.1 billion in cash.