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

Health Populi

“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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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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How to protect telemedicine from cyberattacks

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With more patients accessing care virtually, organizations must prioritize timely software updates and secure communication channels, and identity verification methods to protect sensitive health data. As these programs integrate more technology and data, they can present a wide variety of vulnerabilities that can be exploited.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

Health Populi

Amazon is already well-entrenched in many health care activities, as a new report from Bertelsmann Stiftung presented in this chart. KLAS Research recently published research on AWS in health care, finding among 13 health care client users most had better/faster processes and improved patient or clinician experience.

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#SPM2018 Hot Topic: Can a Market for Health Data also Protect Patients’ Rights to Their Data?

Society for Participatory Medicine

With more efficient access to data sources, medical researchers can spend more time on analysis that enhances our medical knowledgebase and less time compiling data. As an SPM board member, I have the privilege of introducing Bill, who will speak about the value of aggregated health data from the researcher’s perspective.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

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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