Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The pressures for data exchange and interoperability have converged on the concept of a health data utility. However, the business opportunities no longer lie simply in exchanging data, which is a rock-bottom requirement. Bass talks of data as part of business intelligence, and of data remediation and recovery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

" Elizabeth Lever, Institute for Family Health. Unfortunately, roughly two-thirds of our visits were via telephone only. Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit."

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The technology has expanded its use for the processing of health data over the last four or five years, and companies around the health technology and health plan provider ecosystems […]. The following is a guest article by Carey Ketelsen and Andy Kumar from Ciox.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2024

One area in healthcare that’s been getting some attention on how to improve is EHR systems. Finding a single solution on how to improve and innovate them is not simple – EHRs are complex with many parts to consider and people have millions of ideas for each part. The following are their answers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2024

Healthcare data can illuminate the patient journey providing invaluable insights into patients’ health histories, treatment responses and outcomes. That means accessing consumer health data safely and securely from various clinical and activity data sources including electronic health records, lab results, wearables, and fitness apps.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew Crabtree, Google Cloud Customer Engineer, gives a detailed presentation on the API threat landscape, security practices, and fresh tips on how to secure your API application to keep vulnerable health data secure.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The graphic is based on work done by Juhan Sonin of GoInvo , a group that does brilliant work on health data design that’s vigilantly people-focused. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A few years back he realized that AI solutions like ambient clinical voice were going to need not just data, but data that had been effectively annotated by experts in order to effectively train these AI models. You couldn’t just throw more data at the problem. You needed the right kind of data.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 9, 2019

The access and use of personal health data for research purposes is increasingly receiving press attention. Undeniably, there are renewed possibilities of conducting health research by processing and cross-referencing large volumes of data through sophisticated algorithms.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

One of the big challenges ambulatory practices face today is how to navigate the increasingly complicated world of population including things like HEDIS scores. The good news is that the opportunity to do population health is now there thanks to all of the data that’s available to a healthcare clinic in their EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2022

In our conversations about the healthcare interoperability landscape, GP said something that really caught my attention: Standards Are Just a Language, You Still Have to Know How to Talk. I thought this was a beautiful way to describe standards. Knowing a language is one thing.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

But one website, PatientsLikeMe , encourages people with diabetes and other conditions to share their day-to-day health records with other users. Rather than keep health data private, the website’s founders believe crowdsourcing health data is a great way to help patients to feel empowered about their health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. "As a doctor, the potential of new technology to improve patient care seems limitless.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.”

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 2, 2018

Patients and the public at large are among those being asked to comment on a pathfinding blueprint for how health data should be handled — an issue close to our hearts (and every other body part, for that matter).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock talks to Kajeet's Director of Strategy, Dominic Marcellino, about some of the different roadblocks to secure, reliable connectivity and how to approach tackling them. The current state of health data interoperability. Making health data not just readable, but useful.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Getting to interoperability of systems and data is key, and BDO provides a helpful sidebar int he report speaking to getting more of your EHR system. How to move forward? Optimal use of EHRs can help lower administrative costs and better focus on workflows. BDO asks and answers.

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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.” How to deal?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

country findings, note that 93% of younger doctors were unable to fully leverage health data to its full potential in their workflow during the pandemic. Over one-half of doctors said there were conflicts between different data sets and quality of data, presenting barriers to the most effective use of data in the crisis.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have covered the vision of Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) concept, and outline how a Security Labeling Service (SLS) would enable this grandiose vision of DS4P. However, there are stepping stones: The following is a slightly update on an article I wrote in July 2015 on how to set the confidentialityCode.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Given her explicit role in data analytics, she noted Humana’s commitment to, “How to find insights to help you dance at your granddaughter’s wedding” and to “show up at the baseball game next spring.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, this week Google made news about how it will absorb the DeepMind AI business into the larger Google Health unit. Some analysts and privacy lawyers question how Google will handle patients’ (assumed private) health data, a volatile question for the UK’s National Health Service as I draft this post.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Innovar Healthcare also branched out to help labs with data sharing when COVID-19 hit, and now is working more and more with digital health companies who have similar data sharing problems. The problem most organizations face with health data interoperability is that it is not just about the data or the formats.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. In some regions, request volumes are up by 30 percent over last year.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Then they collate and sell this information to pharmaceutical companies and others who rely on such data for research and marketing. Until now, the proceeds from the booming health data–brokering industry have seldom been seen by the people who contribute the information in the first place.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

888 of the fetchingly titled, “ Proposed Rule, CMS-1715-P ” – I’ve greatly abbreviated the full title – CMS says this: We believe the bi-directional availability of data, meaning that both patients and their health care providers have real-time access to the patient’s electronic health record (EHR), is critical.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Most striking in the Edelman 2023 research was the finding that more consumers trusted peer voices – friends and family – on par with medical experts, and well above the advice of national health authorities and global health authorities. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?”

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

JANUARY 24, 2023

How does access to patient information drive population health data and how does that then influence proactive care? However, experts argue that one key solution to these problems is the use of population health data and proactive 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 3, 2018

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: As workers bear a greater financial risk for covering their and their families’ healthcare costs, how to bend that cost curve downward? Eight in ten employers that offer a health screening program use the data collected in some way, the third chart shows. employers ask.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In mode of attendee (and self-confessed collegial-groupie of Dr. Topol’s), I took in his remarks taking notes as fast as I could thanks to Mom teaching me how to type on an IBM Selectric (the significance of which I wrote about here in the Huffington Post ). “The U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

"Rather than a checkup once a year or two visits for sore throat or the flu and no interactions in between that, this becomes a longitudinal relationship that brings [together] multiple professionals, digital assets and data science all to bear for the consumer," said Gorevic.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. The Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option Supplement enhances the existing IHE XCPD Integration Profile by adding two new capabilities. May the 4th be with you.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 10, 2019

Ten years ago the whole issue of personal health data exploded into the headlines. In one view, in the decade since then not much has changed, but in another view, an enormous amount of infrastructure has changed, and I think we’re on the verge of an eruption due to the success of the new FHIR data interface.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) called on three telehealth companies to protect their patient’s sensitive health data. Who Is Protecting Patient Health Information? Sign up for newsletters here.

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