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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Read more… Improving Youth Mental Health at Scale in Texas. One in six Americans aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… How Were the Spring Health IT Conferences ? Laurel Williams, M.D., told Colin.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

The former can be thought of as software-as-medicine, and the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (yes, there’s now an industry association for the field) illustrates their broad definition of the concept in the diagram here. Finally, we come to smart cities to promote resilience.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the past year, there was an undeniable slowdown in health tech mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities. After a flurry of investments and deals in the preceding years largely driven by Covid-19, the industry hit the pause button for reflection. 2024: A year of pain or opportunity?

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Potential Key Talking Points for the Vive Digital Health Event 2024: Industry Trends: Data-driven healthcare: Leveraging data analytics for personalized medicine, population health management, and clinical decision support. Mental health and digital therapeutics.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 15, 2024

Wearable devices: These are devices that are worn on the body and can track health data such as heart rate, sleep, and activity levels. As we look towards 2030, several key trends are poised to reshape the industry: 1. Mental health support: Virtual therapy and counselling platforms will provide accessible mental healthcare.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 3, 2023

In recent years, wearable technology has gained immense popularity, and its applications in the healthcare industry have been particularly noteworthy. Wearables in healthcare have enabled healthcare providers to monitor patients remotely, collect real-time data, and provide personalized health insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2024

Then we moved into platforming and how we can actually start to build out platforming technologies to integrate everything from interoperability to interconnected solutions with downstream partners. I think that changing from that position is a disservice to the whole industry. Now we’re talking about ecosystems.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We asked our talented Healthcare IT Today Community – in the context of interoperability, what challenges and barriers exist in achieving standardized and secure data exchange across different healthcare systems, and how can these obstacles be addressed? The following are their answers. However, this rule is only the first step.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

OCTOBER 28, 2022

On the surface, the apparent lack of anonymity may be unnerving, but it comes nowhere close to the pervasiveness of medical software that collects the most private forms of information about one’s biology and health records. However, why would interoperability be desired when the underlying cybersecurity of these systems is inexistent?

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Medicine and Technology

MARCH 8, 2016

We still live in a world where interoperability remains a major barrier, but perhaps 2016 will be the year where we make some significant strides in this area through broader collaborations and partnerships across the health IT industry.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Some of the biggest and most famous tech companies are making big bets on health care. The blue chips of Silicon Valley have announced they’re interested in disrupting an industry that has bedeviled us with rising costs and inefficiencies for decades. That is more than any tech firm except Apple.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 29, 2019

Can we trust it with our sensitive health data? While Amazon’s recent focus on health has caught the attention of observers, its interest in the sector is far from new. They’re starting to expect the same level of service and flexibility from healthcare as they have got used to from other industries.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

This includes expansion of originating sites and eligible providers; coverage of audio-only telehealth; extended capabilities for FQHCs and rural health clinics to offer telehealth; extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home program, and a delay for the in-person requirement for mental health services.

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This blog post by Dr Joe Kvedar reflecting on Apple’s Health Record announcement makes for interesting reading ( I’m very optimistic about what this means for Patients and Carers ). Last week, Apple made a big announcement that headlines and excited many in our industry. mHealth Insight. Or so it seems. Don’t get me wrong.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

For 2019, CMS has implemented a few changes that promise to have a significant impact on the telemedicine industry. Additionally, while not in effect until July 1, 2019, CMS will remove the “originating site geographic requirement for telehealth services targeting treatment of substance use disorder or a co-occurring mental health disorder”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Nate Maslak, CEO and Cofounder at Ribbon Health. Swarms of data pollinate personalized medicine. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care.

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