Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

He continued his prescriptions for making health care more human, humane, and evidence-based with other bold ideas including getting rid of keyboards in the physician-patient encounter, ensuring patients own/control their personal health data, and increasing the time shared between doctors and patients during the encounter.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health Populis Hot Points: As a health economist, a major concern for me in looking at a very uncertain payment/reimbursement and health policy future is sustainability of health systems, providers and clinicians, and patients ability to cover the costs of their medical care.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Wegman was CEO and advocated for the statewide health information network. In his letter beginning “Dear New York Legislator,” Wegman identified several benefits he expected would flow out of the massive, multimillion dollar health computer project: he believed it would: 1. Improve health care for all New Yorkers, 2.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Topics expected to be covered include the Gulf Cooperation Counci’s (GCC) collaboration on CDC surveillance, as well as exploring how data has been used to improve disease mapping across the region. But regulations, such as the Health ICT law, which was published in 2019, governed the way we access health-data using technology.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Doctors’ use of and demand for augmented intelligence in medical practice is on the rise — with many factors that could bolster or risk adoption on the journey toward AI in the doctor’s office, based on the latest survey from the American Medical Association (AMA) published this week. The AMA polled U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

.” Samsung Health users who opt into this program could track their health data, receive reminders for tests and prompts from physicians, and perform other self-care tasks. Samsung Health already works with Walgreens, ThedaCare, Lee health, and Rise Health whose data could be accessed by patients using their services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

. “My physician” is the most trusted data steward, with 72% of consumers willing to share health data with “their” personal doctors. Only 11% of consumers said in 2018 that they’d be willing to share health data with them. Tech companies? That is my yet-to-be-answered question.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Panel Recap Representing a wide range of health industry experience, the panelists shared insights into challenges and opportunities in using technology to improve health equity. Both Robert and Sarah highlighted how H.R.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 20, 2019

In the previous post of our series we described the “ Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”. Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? Read the full post on The Health Care Blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless. Less fragmented health data. We hope you’ll enjoy a nice break this Valentine’s day. What does that mean for patients?

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. Health Policy: The impact of healthcare policy on patient outcomes and access to care. The role of telehealth and remote patient monitoring in improving access to care. The future of healthcare financing and payment models.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tracking health information doesn’t result in better outcomes in and of itself, Deloitte’s report recognizes: it takes environmental nudges, like behavioral economic strategies and public policies like healthy agricultural supports and active transportation, to move people toward healthy behaviors and sustain them.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

But while the new ONC rules may make it easier for health consumers to access personal health information, the Field of Dreams phenomenon subverts the noble goal: we may “build” a system for people to access health data (like Blue Button), but patients may not “come.”

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 13, 2019

The McKinsey “2,750 times” statistic is a pretty good proxy for the amount of your personal health data that is NOT protected by HIPAA and currently is broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog.

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E-CareManagement

JULY 29, 2019

She was a wise girl who was aware that there was great value in health data. Goldilocks learned that there are risks of TOO LITTLE health data being shared: That she and her care providers would not have the best information for clinical decision making. One day she decided to go for a walk in the forest of the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

we’ve learned a lot about the weaknesses in American health care: peoples’ lack of access to health care, a weak and patchwork quilted primary care infrastructure, fragmented and siloed health data, and a body politic often dis- or mis-engaged in evidence-based medical facts. In the U.S.,

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E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data. Ultimately Congressional action is needed to establish meaningful privacy protections for personal data.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2022

.” The organizations in this consortium had data but they also bore the “super determinants of health” — access and health literacy challenges. And that requires collaboration across diverse data and industry siloes, the kind of which we can see in Equideum Health’s partnerships diagram shown here.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I’m also especially keen, from the patient privacy perspective, to hear my close colleagues Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis explain the “Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

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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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

There’s a shortage of medical providers in the United Kingdom, a nation where healthcare is guaranteed to all Britons via the most beloved institution in the nation : The National Health Service. The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade. “ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

It involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare data to support decision-making, facilitate communication, and improve healthcare outcomes. The field encompasses a wide range of technologies, such as electronic health records (EHRs) , clinical decision support systems (CDSS), telemedicine, and health data analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mo formerly served in leadership roles for Cotiviti, FinThrive, and McKinsey & Company.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

For instance, computers could take active medication data, reconcile it, place it in chronological order, remove duplicates, clean up and present it to the clinical staff for review. Overall, we’re optimistic about the future of health data.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. Prescription drug spending on branded products grew nearly $5 billion less than in 2016; generic drug spending fell by $5.5 billion, according to Medicine Use and Spending in the U.S. , The report reviews medicines spending in 2017 looking forward to 2022. There were over 5.8

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LinkousThink

JUNE 14, 2013

Wakefield will speak Thursday, June 27, 2:45pm – 3:15pm FDA, Facing Cybersecurity Threats, Tightens Medical-Device Standards ( Washington Post , June 13, 2013) The ATA Federal Policy Summit includes two presentations focused on the increasingly important topic of cybersecurity and device regulation.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 1, 2019

This post is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Read the full post on The Health Care Blog. By DEVEN McGRAW and VINCE KURAITIS. A few excerpts: The buzz around federal privacy legislation continues, but as of yet there appear to be no proposals or bills that have emerged as the lead bills. .

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