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Color Health uses OpenAI to develop cancer screening copilot for doctors

Healthcare It News

Color Health, a genetic testing company, is using OpenAI's newest, less expensive, large language model to equip doctors with pretreatment workup expertise that could speed up prior authorization requests for cancer screening diagnostics and get patients into treatment faster.

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. ” Software Advice wondered.

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Putting patients at the heart of digital healthcare

Healthcare It News

“My personal health history has shown me how valuable it is to be able to talk with my trusted doctor in a secure digital setting. Pramberger is one of the 70 patients of the Vinzenz Gruppe who was surveyed about the digital patient portal ‘Hallo Gesundheit’ (‘Hello Health’) for its further development.

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Are we taking patient privacy as seriously as we ought to be?

Healthcare It News

In her keynote speech, Allen focused on the shifting narrative of data sharing and privacy, which she has been studying and writing about for 35 years. "Attitudes about health data privacy are rapidly changing," she said. "They have rapidly changed. And disclosure is becoming the new norm."

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EMR implementation as a 'science'

Healthcare It News

" He said the time a pharmacist spends following up with doctors about their prescriptions should also be accounted for. Systems automation, which sees growing adoption across health facilities, can also help save time completing an EMR, Dr Appannan added. "Patients [are] the mediators of health information exchange."

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Advancing Health Equity by Addressing The Health Data Desert

HIT Consultant

Doctors have no access to data about the social determinants of health, hampering their ability to tailor care to patients. With incomplete data, certain populations are overlooked during the development of new drugs. It’s not a stretch to say that your phone knows more about many of these key factors than your doctor.

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Health Data Privacy: Majority of Patients Demand Accountability, Transparency

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new examination of patient perspectives on health data privacy illustrates unresolved tension over the eroding security and confidentiality of personal health information in a wired society and economy. This concern is magnified with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. .