Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

James Rice, Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Protegrity Healthcare organizations can ensure secure patient data by enabling advanced data-centric security, including tokenization, masking, and anonymization, to ensure sensitive information remains protected and obfuscated while at rest, in transit, or in use.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. Radiology reports, for example, are particularly difficult for patients to understand. Access alone, however, is not sufficient.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Due to a lack of and incorrect personal health information, Grace was being treated for conditions she did not have. As a result, she does not have a family medical history for them. When something didn’t add up, Grace was sent to a new specialist and was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of 11. says Angela.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The top-demanded health consumer digital health applications included, The ability to find doctors and make appointments online, for 51% of people. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%. Finally, 33% of Americans are comfortable (net) sharing their health information with tech companies.

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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Simplifying prior authorizations would make health care services more efficient and lower the administrative burden on physicians. For example, chronic conditions would only need to be authorized every year instead of every month, lowering the administrative cost. This would contribute to the harmony of reporting metrics nationwide.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The rise in social engineering, ransomware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks have exposed these weaknesses and made health systems more aware of risks to sensitive patient data. Data Encryption Encrypting data both in transit and at rest helps safeguard patient information even if hackers gain access to networks.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Regarding their level of digital health competency, many are found to be capable of searching for health information and using it to practice a healthy lifestyle while there is low competency in using health information for disease and health management. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Data Privacy and Security: Robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. Data Privacy and Security: Implementing robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. This can help patients take a more active role in their own healthcare and improve their overall health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

Rock Health assessed eight “digital health value propositions:” On-demand health care. Consumer health information. While M&A in digital health has slowed down, it’s useful to identify some of the deals conducted in the H1 2020 to see how vertical integration is scaling and shaping up.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 10, 2023

Lavita’s decentralized platform provides a privacy-preserving infrastructure to securely share and analyze health data, and brings ownership, control, and value of health data back to individuals. Lavita platform will enable numerous applications within life science research, biopharma development, and healthcare innovation.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 3, 2023

In short, people flock to TikTok for health information, a trend that is not new. A study released earlier this year by Hall & Partner found that Gen Z and millennials are increasingly turning to TikTok for health advice and information instead of consulting their doctors. It also revealed that 18% of the U.S.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2020

PwC found that the top sources for gathering health information were first, local news, followed by national news and the State government (ahead of the Federal government by 5 percentage points and local government by 6 points). In the COVID-19 era in the U.S., These details and differences are shown in the bar chart.

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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

We know that “health information” encompasses much more than data stored in a health plan’s claims system or a pharmacy benefit manager’s computer data base. Health is made as much outside of medical care providers’ sites as it is at home, at work, at play, at school.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

"Yet, if telehealth technologies are not designed, implemented, and contextualized within appropriate policies, these benefits cannot be realized, and instead could worsen health inequities within this population," they wrote. Telehealth technology design remains inaccessible for many, wrote the authors. ON THE RECORD.

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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 IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

They come preloaded with telehealth applications, as well as links to educational materials that are specific to the patient group – for example, our transplant program.” It chose PadInMotion devices because they are familiar to the health system, having been used successfully in the past.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. Davis has come to realize that when patient data is made more portable and sharable, patient experience improves.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

That’s why 73% of health executives told Accenture they plan to develop internal ethical standards related to the use of AI to bolster responsible use of patients’ personal health information. Together, these three concepts blur lines across physical and simulated, immersive worlds.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We Immunization information continues to be exchanged in high volumes on the company’s platform, even though the pandemic has waned. With more than 21.7

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Several stakeholders are investing more and more in artificial intelligence, while others are timidly investigating AI-enabled digital health initiatives. A perfect example of best practice aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This is where Google comes in.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In search of this inside look, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – as public health initiatives evolve, how are organizations incorporating evidence-based practices and research to design and evaluate interventions that have a measurable impact on population health?

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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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Although the healthcare industry has been slower to move to the cloud due to the sensitive nature of its data, adoption has been on the rise in recent years (in part spurred by the pandemic), and today 47 percent of health organizations store protected health information (PHI) in the cloud , which increases their level of risk.

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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? For example, a physician should be able to see all of her appointments for the day at a glance in one panel.

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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

APRIL 23, 2024

However, the deployment of AI in health care necessitates vigilant oversight to prevent biases and ensure data integrity. Civitas suggests that by leveraging the established infrastructure of Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Health Data Utility (HDU) models, we can develop a robust framework for AI governance in health data management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

She started HealthTree.org, which allows patients to aggregate their health information and connect with each other, and to find clinical trials that may be a good fit. Some of them, for example, are using wearables like Fitbits to investigate the correlation between disease progression and fitness.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2024

For them, the system enables in-house monitoring – for example, notifying them when physiological data falls outside selected parameters while freeing them from manual monitoring tasks. Find out more at Corsano Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Another important component in Singapore’s effective approach in containing the pandemic is the Ministry of Health’s method of risk profiling through multi-agency efforts to capture data, and subsequently having tiers to provide different levels of care based on the COVID-19 patient cases’ severity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

Jennifer McCaney told Healthcare IT News that the majority of executives in a recent study believe the FDA has responded more effectively to the evolving needs of medical innovation when compared to its global counterparts.

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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, AI algorithms can predict individual health risks by analyzing patterns in a person's medical history, lifestyle and genetic information. This enables proactive and preventative care, allowing for early intervention in potential health issues. Foremost is the issue of privacy and data security.

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