Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Social determinants of health – the food, shelter and security attributes of patients that exist outside of care settings – contribute disproportionate risks for disease, hospital readmissions and a lack of access to quality healthcare among vulnerable populations, including people on Medicare.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

"Investing in the technical work to create a nuanced approach to health information sharing is not just a necessity, it's an opportunity," she continued. "It's an opportunity to revolutionize the way we handle teen health data, ensuring both teens and their guardians have appropriate access to the information they need."

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 2, 2024

Patients will soon be able to directly share their health data with various apps of their choice, marking a significant step forward in data interoperability. Epic, as a qualified health information network (QHIN), has been instrumental in developing and implementing TEFCA.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For example, it could give them greater control over their data security and architecture or they feel they know their data best and can better manage it internally. Whatever the reason, if a startup is looking to develop its own health data platform, there are five factors they must always consider.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

As AI technologies require vast amounts of data to improve accuracy and efficacy, the question of how to protect patient privacy while leveraging data insights becomes increasingly complex. In medicine – as opposed to, say, advertising – data is a public good.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2024

Besides being able to view immunisation history and COVID-19 test results, users can now also view and update the details of their National Health Index, High Use Health Card and Community Services Card. They can also view the COVID-19 results and some NHI details of their children whose accounts are linked to theirs.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Data is everywhere, but not always available or decipherable to help manage myriad challenges. Progress toward accountable care is halting. Care quality is often degraded, and patient accessibility is still lacking. Financial and revenue cycle disruptions are significant. Relentless cyberattacks are an ongoing threat.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

This and other insights about the patient journey are published in Inside the patient journey , a report from Deloitte that assesses three key touch points for consumer health engagement. These three patient journey milestones are searching for care, using new channels of care, and tracking and sharing health data, Deloitte maps.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In its September RFI, the HELP Committee asked stakeholders for feedback on a number of questions about health data and accountability, including whether accountable entities should have a duty of loyalty to patients and how it could be imposed so as to minimize burdens on those entities.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

How can AI help advance health equity? It can analyze vast amounts of health data to identify disparities in access and outcome, it can help with personalizing care. And we need to account for that as we build these tools, along with ongoing training and monitoring of the models as they're deployed.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Wearables, mobile apps and cloud tools let patients monitor their health and decide when to request assistance. They interact with medical staff, share health data from their remote sensing devices and schedule appointments online.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

With predictive modeling, we're able to analyze more than 100 ongoing personal health data points to identify those at risk and zero-in on attributes that may impact their at-risk status, based on their personalized health journey.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

PC CDS incorporates patient-provided information – such as data from medical devices, wearables and patient-reported outcome surveys, as well as social determinants of health and patient preference data – directly in the office, home, or other community-based setting.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

But amidst this confusion lies a potential solution: personalized health data. By leveraging biomarkers, genomics , images and other personal information, individuals can gain clearer insights into their health and make more informed decisions. How are you accounting for this in openCHA's LLM-powered framework?

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

THE LARGER TREND Small hospitals are currently changing EHRs faster than large hospitals , according to the Small-Hospital Patient Accounting report the KLAS Arch Collaborative released in March. Patients want health record access with usability , but patients across the U.S. Peter's website.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Earlier this year, Change Healthcare suffered a major cyberattack which led to one of the largest medical data breaches of all time. The company is responsible for between one-third and a half of all healthcare transactions in the United States, which means millions of Americans’ sensitive health data was stolen.

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Accountable Care Doctors

MARCH 19, 2021

Coalition of Leading Medical Groups and Health Systems Confirms Board Appointments for 2021. The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), a coalition of visionary medical groups and health systems supporting accountable value-based care, has added Joe Kimura, MD, MPH, to its board of directors.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Opioid Abuse and Dependence: National Trends and Key Insights from FAIR Health Data (2020-2023) FAIR Health, a national nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code, focuses on enhancing transparency in healthcare costs and insurance information. This code accounted for 11.9%

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NCQA

APRIL 8, 2025

So far, were hearing one theme loud and clear: We must continue to engage in collaborative dialogue and build partnerships among health plans, care delivery organizations, clinicians and the community. Patient-generated health data can help identify trends and encourage involvement of care teams.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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Triage Health Law

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Key Takeaway : Organizations must conduct a fact-based analysis to determine whether health data collection and tracking technology deployed on their websites and mobile apps complies with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and other applicable laws and guidance.

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Triage Health Law

JANUARY 3, 2023

Key Takeaway : Organizations must conduct a fact-based analysis to determine whether health data collection and tracking technology deployed on their websites and mobile apps complies with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and other applicable laws and guidance.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2023

Therefore, unlocking the correct data–at the individual patient and population levels–is critical to reversing this crisis. If providers could easily and securely access dynamic and actionable behavioral health data, they could develop more effective treatment plans based on a patient’s complete history.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 24, 2024

Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) found to be blocking information may be excluded from the program for at least a year, forfeiting potential revenue. Those entities face potential civil monetary penalties of up to $1 million per violation.

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Bill Of Health

APRIL 4, 2024

On top of that a firm will -in the near future- need to comply with all the specific requirements for ‘high risk’ AI technology as stipulated in the Proposal for a Regulatory Framework for Artificial Intelligence (EU AI Act), and navigate its way through the future European Health Data Space. Sectoral US Laws In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 4, 2022

Fortune 50 companies already use Replica’s technology to enable fast and effective access to high utility, synthetic versions of health data across their organizations while meeting regulatory obligations and compliance with privacy laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The survey underscores the urgency for health systems to develop comprehensive AI governance policies that address data privacy, security, and accountability. But it is essential that health care executives also take seriously the responsibility to protect our patients’ privacy and health data.

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 18, 2021

In the long run, I actually believe this will be bad for innovation and technology adoption because of lingering uncertainty regarding data protection. In fact, much of the health data we collect on our phones and apps have few privacy laws protecting it.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 3, 2022

One thing that has remained constant, though, is the organization’s push towards a value-based health care system. For Signify, the recent completion of its Caravan Health acquisition — an accountable care organization (ACO) manager — is a major move toward driving more participation and success in value-based payment arrangements. “We’re

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2021

Founded in 2014, Carrot Health provides consumer insights for each and every individual person in the United States to engage patients and members, close gaps in care, and optimize performance for healthcare payers and provider systems. Acquisition Drives a New Standard of Care to Improve Whole Person Health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

She can then connect a list of the missing ingredients to her Instacart account, and those foodstuffs can be delivered to her home or she can pick up the groceries at her preferred food market.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 18, 2024

Those good intentions notwithstanding, the current health data landscape is dramatically different from when the organizational author of the plan, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, formed two decades ago.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

million in five years— health IT developers need to take several facts into account while mapping out their API strategy. Another issue is that it could be complicated to use FHIR extensions and profiles, which are necessary to deal with specialty health data, due to their need for deep domain knowledge.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JULY 12, 2022

Updating data access laws is key. Data available for PCOR research are fragmented across a variety of databases. Available data often collected for payment and treatment purposes. Claims and EHR data, however, may miss significant social determinants of health. Data replication crisis.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2022

When it comes to your health and treatment, hospitals leverage a variety of sensors and instruments to collect the necessary information to monitor and diagnose your health status. The opportunities are seemingly endless, but what are the challenges associated with unlocking this type of health data for the consumer market?

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It will only take a few ingredients to discover a better future: a collective mindset shift, some creative technology and nonprofits embracing a role as data stewards. We’re not that far from a future where health data is managed by mission-based co-ops or trusts. Data is viewed as a finite asset.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When America’s seniors went to their first doctor’s appointment, they couldn’t have imagined that their health history would be stored anywhere but in a manila folder. Now, nine out of every 10 physicians use electronic health records (EHRs) , and patient’s health data lives on cloud servers.

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