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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

I leave you with one proviso which could be a barrier to patients engaging with digitized health information: in the wake of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, there is a wake-up call for consumers to become more mindful about the security of their personal data online.

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5 Tips For Finding Reliable Medical Information Online

Electronic Health Reporter

The internet has been the greatest force on the planet to get vast amounts of information out to the public. However, its decentralized, leaderless structure means there is no gatekeeper to determine whether information is […].

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How Reframing the Benefit of Interoperability May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered

Healthcare IT Today

Kozak and her team at Holland Bloorview collaborate with MEDITECH to incorporate data from different sources including provincial health information as well as lab data into their MEDITECH EHR through the Traverse Exchange solution. Interoperable data also benefits researchers at Valley Health. Improving both improves outcomes.

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Tips for Reaching Different Demographics With Your Healthcare Content

Geonetric

If you’re trying to appeal to a certain demographic, create and optimize content to suit their interests, and deliver it in the way they want to consume health information. Read Tips for Reaching Different Demographics With Your Healthcare Content at Geonetric.com.

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Health Populi

Developing a culture of cyber- and health privacy-awareness must be a priority for health providers, who as they look to patients for greater health engagement, must bake their trust into health information systems. Consider this a crucial node in patient and clinician experience. .

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EHI is Not What it Used to be, but Don’t Panic

Healthcare IT Today

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 54: Patient Information Privacy with Natalie Pageler, MD

Healthcare IT Today

Then we shift into the roles healthcare organizations and patients/parents have in keeping information private. Next Pageler offers tips/guidance on how we can all keep our health information private. Then we take a look at various health apps to discuss their role in information privacy.

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