Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2025

The Difficulty in Securing Health Data There are several reasons that healthcare organizations have found it particularly difficult to maintain security, despite the billions spent on cybersecurity. First, protected health information (PHI) is a valuable target for cybercriminals, more so than other types of data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

The other thing that I found intriguing was Ellison’s comments about who would benefit from this single database of all our health records. He gave the example of going to the ER and the ER doctor having access to your full records. First was patients. That’s not inspiring.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steve Lazer, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences CTO at Dell Technologies. The landscape of healthcare and biotechnology is changing at a rapid pace, with data taking center stage. Cognitive AI tools enable users to easily query and explore data, without the need for programming.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Connected cars are emerging as a “third space” for health and wellness, and Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, Audi and other car companies have been working on concept cars in health for years. For example, here’s my Health Populi write-up of Toyota , for example, and its wellness car from 2007. Health/care is everywhere.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

The following is a guest article by Subhro Mallik, SVP and Head of Life Sciences business unit at Infosys. Beyond that, patients’ health data from smartphone apps and wearable devices can be used in epidemiological studies to improve understanding of CVD. .

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Zuskov says that LexisNexis uses such standards where appropriate, but points out that they are limited because they “typically apply to SDoH data within a clinical interaction in an EHR system.” Payers and health care systems : Are we reaching the appropriate vulnerable or diverse populations in our health equity strategy?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. The variety of organizations that provide data (clinical settings, labs, community-based organizations, etc.)

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Prioritizing SDoH at the point of care can unintentionally reinforce our health equity blind spots. Without data on the full population, you could be missing the impact of SDoH on the most vulnerable, as shown by the example below on homelessness. Quality of data matters. What SDoH data do you have today?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers. Non-health insurers and life sciences companies also recognize the value of clinical data and are requiring greater levels of access to power their applications and processes.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests.

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Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. For example, a patient with a history of epilepsy became part of human-centered design process with a healthcare provider client, helping make the service offering as useful as possible to actual patients.

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Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. For example, a patient with a history of epilepsy became part of human-centered design process with a healthcare provider client, helping make the service offering as useful as possible to actual patients.

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Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. For example, a patient with a history of epilepsy became part of human-centered design process with a healthcare provider client, helping make the service offering as useful as possible to actual patients.

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Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. For example, a patient with a history of epilepsy became part of human-centered design process with a healthcare provider client, helping make the service offering as useful as possible to actual patients.

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Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. For example, a patient with a history of epilepsy became part of human-centered design process with a healthcare provider client, helping make the service offering as useful as possible to actual patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, government and financial services are two sectors that have found great success in implementing Vulnerability Disclosure Programs (VDPs). In the Change Healthcare attack, for example, coordinated action was necessary to manage the fallout from the ransomware incident.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 10, 2023

The company has partnerships with hospitals, clinics, payers, and life sciences companies. Microsoft first entered the healthcare market in 2009 with the launch of its HealthVault platform, which allowed patients to store and share their health data. 2014: Microsoft acquires Axolotl Health, a competitor to HealthVault.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I’ll give one of my favorite examples to demonstrate. Examples include many types of medication refills, pre-authorization requests, preventive maintenance screenings, remote monitoring, and even management of mild urgent and chronic conditions. Lastly, data analytics resolves remaining duplicates and checks for overlays.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 3, 2023

For example, next-generation sequencing (NGS) is being used to develop new tests for genetic disorders and cancer. Here are some examples of emerging IVD technologies and companies: Next-generation sequencing (NGS): NGS is a powerful technology that can be used to sequence the entire human genome. Johnson & Johnson QIAGEN N.V.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 25, 2018

In healthcare circles, there’s been a lot of talk over the years about the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim, a framework with three broad goals: improving the patient experience of care; improving the health of populations; and reducing the per capita cost of health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Lastly, data analytics resolves remaining duplicates and checks for overlays. Using intelligent automation to improve health data produces better results faster than manually performing the tasks. Previous steps are then rerun. From there, staff can address any unresolved questions.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Wearable devices: Wearable devices, such as fitness trackers and smartwatches, can be used to track patients' health data, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and sleep patterns. This data can be shared with healthcare providers to help them monitor patients' health and identify any potential problems early on.

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Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

Digital Transformation Equals A Lot of Data Technology is being used in new and interesting ways in healthcare. For example, tablets are now commonplace in healthcare facilities with some hospitals providing bedside connected tablets. It is estimated that 30% of all global stored data is from healthcare and life sciences.

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Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

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Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Connected’ medical devices give patients greater control over their health data, and in turn enable doctors to use the data to prompt beneficial patient behaviour. Complexity arises because device validation will also depend on the network being used to transmit and receive data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

The on-demand, self-service approach to analytics, more commonly associated with the financial services industry and its Bloomberg terminal, will become broadly accessible to hospitals, payers, and life sciences companies. David Navarro, Senior Director of Data Science at Harmony Healthcare IT.

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Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 8, 2019

AWS also already targets the sector and has a dedicated Healthcare and Life Sciences unit. While Amazon has made its own devices with varying levels of success -- from the highs of its Fire tablet range to the lows of its now-defunct own-brand phone -- for now it seems happy to leave the dedicated health hardware side to third parties.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The WHO and the India G20 presidency emphasised its importance by launching ‘The Global Initiative of Digital Health’ (GIDH) in August, proclaiming: “Digital health is a proven accelerator to advance health outcomes and achieve Universal Health Coverage and health-related Sustainable Development Goals.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This manifesto developed by the #WeAreNotWaiting Diabetes DIY movement is pertinent to all Rebels in health –motivated by accessing and bringing data to scale, or getting payers to pay for therapy or devices, or frustrated by what’s available on the market, building well-designed gear for a loved one.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

At #CES2020, exhibitors in the health/care ecosystem will go well beyond wearable devices for tracking steps and heart rate. I’ve also scheduled get-togethers with pharma and life science folks, health plan people, and execs from consumer health companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Building great AI models in healthcare and life sciences requires lots of data that is diverse, well-labeled, and spans across different patient types. Things to consider include educating patients on how their data is deidentified, stored, and used in building AI models. An example of AI’s benefit is in colonoscopy.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That’s the industry-health care enterprise point of view. From the health citizen’s point of view, a Morning Consult poll conducted in June 2021 found that while 2 in 5 US adult said AI is a safe way to approach modern health care. Here’s another facet of this history that resonates with health data rights and equity.

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