Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. In the meantime, in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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Digital Health Global

MAY 10, 2023

Lavita’s vision is to revolutionize the way individuals around the world manage, share, and utilize their health data, enabling better access to healthcare services and improving patients’ lives. About Lavita Lavita is the first patient-driven platform for secure sharing of health data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this session "Cross-Border Collaborations: Improving Digital Health" (20 November, 13:00 - 13:50), speakers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond will share concrete examples of how governments and healthcare organisations are successfully collaborating across borders to implement various digital health initiatives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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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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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. The Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option Supplement enhances the existing IHE XCPD Integration Profile by adding two new capabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference , in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity. Post-Acute Providers for the Win!

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Davis has come to realize that when patient data is made more portable and sharable, patient experience improves. For example, when a clinic or healthcare facility refers a patient to a surgery center for a procedure, the patients health information needs to be transferred.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Parmjot Bains, CEO at ImpediMed The integration of MedTech and digital health tools is transforming population health management by offering precise, noninvasive diagnostics that catch conditions early. Additionally, they are worried about how much it will cost and that they will now have to give something up because they need care.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act. There will be a shakeout period. About Zach Finn.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

HCA Healthcare , one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. When you say the words ‘data quality’ to people, they interpret it differently,” said Dr. Jirjis. Technically, yes, that is poor quality data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Beyond TEFCA: Knocking Down Remaining Barriers To Exchange Beyond their TEFCA leadership, The Sequoia Project is uniquely positioned to tackle the remaining challenges to seamless and secure health information sharing.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 8, 2018

I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Our conversation focused on the opportunities for improving population health through ACOs.

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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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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Exec Summary: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the future of health data, empowering individuals to take control of their information and fostering a more secure, transparent, and patient-centric healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Hospital-grade wearables equipped with secure data integration, for example, can help guide relevant, timely decisions from care teams regarding whether a patient needs to be hospitalized immediately, or can receive treatment elsewhere and remain outside the hospital for the time being.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 20, 2025

For example, an insurer might be interested in offering the product as a benefit to its members, or an employer might want to provide it to employees as a wellness perk. Examples of Emerging B2C2B Models in Healthcare: Digital Therapeutics (DTx): DTx companies develop software-based therapeutic interventions for various conditions.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 10, 2020

For example, as new approaches to care delivery inspire changes to the FHIR standard , the parent system using the protocol (such as an EHR) must be updated to account for the new informatics paradigm. With the information in hand, eNcounter will configure itself so that it aligns with the unique FHIR implementation of its targeted host.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

For example, 70% of hospitals and over half of ambulatory providers are connected to a national network. Yet despite the promise, data exchange among providers today remains spotty at best. Data usability : A tremendous amount of health data is being exchanged, but the value of that data remains limited.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2024

" To support this model, OSF HealthCare implemented virtual care management and patient monitoring systems that allow staff to track critical health data in real time. "Proactive patient management technology enables us to not just react to critical health events, but to anticipate and prevent them," Nieukirk said.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 23, 2024

For instance, AI is particularly effective in telemedicine consultations for managing chronic conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health issues. By tracking patients’ health data over time, AI tools can predict flare-ups or complications, prompting timely intervention and personalized care.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For example, white and Asian patients are more likely to use digital tools than Black and Latino patients. This information can be used to improve the patient experience and make it easier for patients to access care. For example, athenahealth has found that higher PDEI scores are correlated with higher patient pay yields.

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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

" Elizabeth Lever, Institute for Family Health. To date, from mid-March through June, the institute has provided 54,850 behavioral health visits and roughly 76,695 medical visits to patients via telehealth. Unfortunately, roughly two-thirds of our visits were via telephone only. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 million civil penalty against GoodRx.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

Care models will continue to evolve, and this strategic investment is another example of our commitment to helping our customers thrive in this evolving market, specifically, the opportunity to succeed with this shift to risk.”

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Wearable Health Trackers: Technology (King): Smartwatches and fitness bands that collect data on activity levels, sleep patterns, heart rate, and more. Methodology (Queen): Data privacy and security: How do you ensure the privacy and security of sensitive health data collected by wearables?

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 23, 2018

A centralized way to store all of a person's health data would allow the medical community to overcome existing barriers that prevent the transfer of patient information between medical providers. The electronic device computes health data of the user based upon sensor data regarding the received light.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

These data are held by care delivery organizations, patients, payers, academia, and industry (bio pharmas, contract research organizations, healthcare device vendors, etc.). Early examples of additional training of the LLM base models have shown promising results with improved performance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

An incident response plan is essential to provide impacted parties with a clear understanding of the protected health information (PHI) and/or electronically protected health information (ePHI) that was compromised, when the incident occurred, and what action is being taken by the organization.

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