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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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Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic disease

Healthcare It News

It generates a dynamic wellness score by collecting and analysing health metrics such as steps, exercise, sleep patterns, heart rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature variation, breathing rate, and oxygen saturation, along with blood pressure and blood glucose data collected from third-party devices. THE LARGER TREND.

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Lessons in Health Data Privacy from the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

Bill Of Health

The past may hold important lessons for our uncertain future of health privacy for patients, physicians, and hospitals in the face of abortion subpoenas post- Dobbs. . Familiar tactics and arguments will be levied in forthcoming battles for medical record data access. On the other side, U.S.

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Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

Healthcare It News

million (around $700,000) in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. HOW IT WORKS The project will provide patients with chronic conditions, especially those living in low-income communities, with access to daily/regular integrated primary care services through virtual care and telemonitoring.

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With iOS 15, Apple Health can share health data directly with big name EHRs

Bookzurman

Defense Logistics Agency Is Building an EHR to Track Occupational Health. CMS won't take enforcement action for payer-to-payer data exchange in May interoperability rule. iOS 15 will give doctors a window into Apple Health app data. Walmart Health announces partnership with Epic. Healthcare Topics.

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The Heart of Health at CES 2020 – Evidence & Innovation Bridge Consumers and Doctors

Health Populi

The HRS/CTA guidelines offer pros and cons of wearable tech, providing a balanced view on the current state of efficacy, quality, and physician willingness to accept consumers’ use of digital health tools. On the “pro” side of the equation are, Immediate access to real-time health data.

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Roundup: The Royal Marsden NHS FT expands Hyland Healthcare suite, Clinical trial uses digital education platform to understand fatal genetic diseases in children, and more briefs

Healthcare It News

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has selected Hyland ’s PACSgear image capture solution to integrate with its existing OnBase content services platform and new Epic electronic patient record (EPR) system. ” Report says AI standards are essential to protect doctor-patient relationships.