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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. ATA, which represents the full range of providers that deliver telehealth, has intervened with some states as they grapple with health data privacy legislation, he said.

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Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The removal of thousands of health information web pages and public health data streams harms patients and runs counter to health agencies' mandate, Doctors for America argues in a newly filed lawsuit.

Public Health

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QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. CommonWell has been working with some of these clients to look at innovative data workflows.

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The New Health Information Exchange from Cloudticity: NLP, Catalogs, and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2021

Rapid exchange of patient data is crucial not only for coordinating care, but for research and public health.

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How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. How are health data utilities evolving? Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

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 Commons Project Completes Acquisition of OneHealthPort to Advance Healthcare Innovation and Access across Washington State

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Health Commons Project , a leading nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare access and quality through technology and innovation, today announced it has completed the acquisition of OneHealthPort , Washington State’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and prominent provider of health data solutions.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I discussed that important public health/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. Furthermore, this week Google made news about how it will absorb the DeepMind AI business into the larger Google Health unit. which 1 in 2 U.S. adults over 55 manage. [I Now, his forecast is mainstream.

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EHI is Not What it Used to be, but Don’t Panic

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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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More granularly, most consumers (over two-thirds) were concerned about allowing apps or sites to access their location data, online banking, accepting cookies on sites, creating new accounts on apps or sites, sharing health information with apps or sites, online shopping, paying bills, and so on. Few people in the U.S.

Public Health

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. 46% of U.S.

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Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? Susan Clark, Principal Health IT Consultant at Briljent – Usability workflow – what happens in real life, on the ground, and the people who are interacting.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. The community accepts some cost-tiering based on personal preferences.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

Health Data

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Synthetic Data and LLMs Power the World’s Most Powerful Research Assistant

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data : rows of totally invented people that contain no real data but reflects the actual characteristics of a population such as race, gender, and medical conditions. ” The FDA, VA, and others are using synthetic data.

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North Carolina launches new stroke registry linked to NC HealthConnex

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority, housed within the state's Department of Information Technology, announced this week that it's working North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to launch the N.C. Stroke Registry.

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Interoperability is a Rural Health Disparity

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

The following is a guest article by Jaime Bland, DNP, RN-BC, Chief Executive Officer at CyncHealth, the health data utility for the Midwest, and Kat McDavitt, Principal Advisor and Head of Public Affairs for Innsena and advises organizations including PointClickCare on external affairs.

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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

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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Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. HTI-1 Final Rule Appropriately, we’ve been breaking down what health IT and EHR vendors need to expect when it comes to HTI-1 in our Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.

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COVID-19: Lessons from Thailand’s BIDI & Samitivej Group of Hospitals

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. ” Looking at the WHO ITU e-Health governance, standards and interoperability are the fundamentals of applications and services.

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Healthcare Interoperability is Falling Short. How Do We Address It?

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, the industry has stalled on connecting many hospitals and ambulatory providers to a national network – and the challenge is greater among other types of care provider groups (post-acute care, home health, and emergency medical services, for example), other stakeholder groups (including payers and federal agencies), and consumers.

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eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA. eHealth Exchange is working with the industry and with regulators to improve response rates so public health agencies can get the data they need to protect Americans health.

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Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

First up was an intro to Healthix, one of the largest public HIEs out there that serves New York. When you look at how much data is passing through Healthix, it’s kind of hard to comprehend. 50 million patients with 105+ million inbound data is a lot of health data.

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Verato Expands Relationship with Contexture to Support HIE Identity Management

Digital Health Global

MAY 24, 2023

Partnership supports patient matching across more than 28 million lives in Arizona and Colorado MCLEAN, Va., & PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Verato, the identity experts for healthcare, and Contexture, the largest health information organization in the western U.S.,

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Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

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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Sickle Cell Disease Foundation Announces Research Collaboration with FDA on the Use of Digital Health Technologies to Bridge Health Care Gaps

Digital Health Global

JUNE 4, 2024

Specifically, the collaboration will evaluate how digital health technologies can be used to better understand patients’ real-world experiences and evaluate meaningful benefit to those living with rare diseases, like sickle cell disease, for medical product development and public health purposes. About the U.S.

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The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

The QHIN community is committed to helping all healthcare organizations achieve connectivity and advancing use cases such as Healthcare Operations, Public Health, and Individual Access Services. Fragmented systems are a major hurdle, as diverse EHR systems often lack compatibility, making seamless data sharing difficult.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs. Some ready-made CSS tools that states will find useful include: .

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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Optimizing the Healthcare Workforce with Technology

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Corinna Dan, Senior Director of Public Health at Maximus. The public health data and technology landscape is evolving rapidly and demands an agile workforce that can efficiently adapt and integrate better IT solutions.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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Patient Portals and 'Answer Engines' to emerge as a powerful duo in HealthTech 2024?

Lloyd Price

MARCH 13, 2024

Generative AI: Personalised Health Information: Generative AI can personalise health information delivery. This can lead to a deeper understanding of their health and better engagement with treatment plans. This can significantly improve customer support efficiency.

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Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Sally Else, President at Mphasis Javelina FHIR and SMART on FHIR apps have been adopted at a large scale by many healthcare organizations for interoperability and data sharing. Additionally, health information exchanges/networks have also helped in data sharing among chains of hospitals or partner payer/provider entities.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Webinars

ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

FierceHealthIT - Untitled Article

QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

The New Health Information Exchange from Cloudticity: NLP, Catalogs, and Standards

How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?

How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Commons Project Completes Acquisition of OneHealthPort to Advance Healthcare Innovation and Access across Washington State

The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

EHI is Not What it Used to be, but Don’t Panic

Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

Synthetic Data and LLMs Power the World’s Most Powerful Research Assistant

North Carolina launches new stroke registry linked to NC HealthConnex

Interoperability is a Rural Health Disparity

Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California

Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

COVID-19: Lessons from Thailand’s BIDI & Samitivej Group of Hospitals

Healthcare Interoperability is Falling Short. How Do We Address It?

eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management

Verato Expands Relationship with Contexture to Support HIE Identity Management

Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

Sickle Cell Disease Foundation Announces Research Collaboration with FDA on the Use of Digital Health Technologies to Bridge Health Care Gaps

The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Optimizing the Healthcare Workforce with Technology

So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Patient Portals and 'Answer Engines' to emerge as a powerful duo in HealthTech 2024?

Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

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