Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

Addressing biased data sets and algorithms must be part of a new deal on health citizenship for Americans, who must also be in control of their personal health data and have a right to quality health care without regard to what state they live in, or whether they’re urban or rural communities.

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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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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

When done correctly, successful chart abstractions give clinicians a clean slate with accurate data for delivering top-quality care right away. They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR. ReMedi’s approach to chart abstraction is to first train our clinical data team.

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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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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

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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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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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 21, 2024

Moreover, the study highlighted that RPM technology not only reduced the need for frequent clinic visits but also empowered pregnant women through digital patient engagement by providing them with real-time health data. According to their findings, fifty states and Washington D.C.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

One example that holds immense potential to advance health equity is the utility of remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions – which entails the use of technology to remotely collect and transmit physiologic and nonphysiologic health data from patients to healthcare providers, in between in-person care.

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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

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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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patients’ experiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time. Justice Department.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Here is a snippet of how I explained the Accenture research here in Health Populi when it was published: “Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Now fast forward 15 years and you might wake up to find that the power of computing and the integrations of so many sources of data (credit card purchase data, retail spending, online search, genomic, phenotypic, and on and on) could potentially be “reaggregated” in a manner that your health data could be re-identified after the fact.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , we begin with the premise of the patient-as-payor seeking access to health care, avoiding negative financial side effects and a sense of justice and ownership and control in one’s personal health, health data, and the larger health care system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019.

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