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The Future of Human Health May Require Unlocking Access to Our Health Data

HIT Consultant

Of course, unchecked access to medical data adds to the ethical considerations that attend any discussion of AI-integrated healthcare. 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.

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How IoT Data Integration Helps Deliver Improved At-Home Healthcare in 2022

HIT Consultant

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. How Data Integration Can Improve Elderly At-Home Care. Consumer Healthcare Data Integration Challenges.

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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

Healthcare It News

"This lack of integration led to incomplete information being passed along at each stage of patient transfer, resulting in suboptimal post-discharge care. " To support this model, OSF HealthCare implemented virtual care management and patient monitoring systems that allow staff to track critical health data in real time.

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Integral Secures $6.9M to Expand Real-Time Compliance for Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Integral , an innovator in safeguarding privacy and maximizing data quality raises $6.9M Real-time Compliance for Life Sciences Founded in 2022 by Shubh Sinha, CEO and John Kuhn, CTO, Integral streamlines dataset creation by automating the de-identification and compliance certification process.

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HIMSSCast: Whole person care and data interoperability drivers

Healthcare It News

The opportunity to impact the healthcare outcomes of populations via SDOH lays in the ability "to incorporate unstructured, non-traditional health data into the patient record," he wrote for Healthcare IT News during the pandemic. SDOH data is a matter of interoperability , as it is often intentionally trapped.

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NZ clinicians hope for a patient-centred future, but hindrances abound: report

Healthcare It News

The Reimagining Better Healthcare report found patients desire more control over their health journeys but find it difficult to access the care they need in a siloed system, which is made up of many different clinician and specialist groups, departments and settings that don’t interact or seamlessly integrate.

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NCQA Responds to ONC USCDI+ Behavioral Health Draft Dataset

NCQA

It captures the data needs of behavioral health and improves data availability and consistency to support behavioral health transactions, use cases and programs. The USCDI+ Behavioral Health dataset can improve care delivery by: Enhancing health data availability and consistency. What happens next?