HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Not all devices are created equal, and medical organizations can prevent many risks by only issuing those with stronger security features. That may mean letting patient-end devices transmit health data but not retrieve anything from the provider’s side.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Studies continue to demonstrate how a healthy lifestyle led by a balanced diet, sufficient exercise, and emotional regulation can improve overall health, and prevent disease. My Whole Person Care Journey to Redefine Health When I started my career in family medicine, I was quickly consumed by this broken system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

These technologies allow patients to access their health data, communicate with providers, and participate actively in managing their health. These tools provide personalized reminders for medication, upcoming appointments, and preventive care services. However, achieving such integration is not without difficulties.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Consumers’ trust in all sources of health information increased between 2018 and 2020 except for peoples’ trust in online health websites/apps and social media, both of which lost a number of consumers trusting them. consumers would be willing to share their health data were Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 13, 2023

Balancing competitiveness with the need for risk prevention, Europe aims to become a major digital player through its AI framework strategy, particularly in the field of digital health. A fragmented legal landscape of Medical AI Currently, there is no specific legal regulation of medical AI in Europe.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By administering ultrasound technology at the point of care, whether that be the patient’s bedside or an ambulance, POCUS prevents patients from being sent to another facility for imaging or waiting for a radiologist. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is taking hold across healthcare, and for good reason.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2024

It’s no secret the healthcare industry amasses a fortune of personally identifiable information (PII) and health data. Despite longstanding privacy and security regulations, hackers are often successful. In 2017, the regulator warned the radio-frequency-enabled devices manufactured by St. Jude Medical had a critical flaw.

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 18, 2021

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) health apps, such as apps that manage our diet, fitness, and sleep, are becoming ubiquitous in our digital world. These apps provide a window into some of the key issues in the world of digital health — including data privacy, data access, data ownership, bias, and the regulation of health technology.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 12, 2024

. – This case highlights the importance of protecting patient data in the digital health industry. Whistleblower Aid’s call to action urges the FTC to enforce existing regulations and ensure that vulnerable individuals seeking addiction treatment can do so without fear of privacy violations. Monument Inc.’s

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2022

While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today. Grealy alludes to the data flow barriers that still exist today even while some important federal interoperability standards have been passed.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2022

When you’re waiting for an answer to cure or prevent a disease, that difference can feel like forever. Longitudinal medical data shows trends over time and can chart the best course of action for current or future treatments to advance care, ultimately saving patient lives. Live and high-quality data lead to better care for patients.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2023

Technical and human obstacles to data collaboratives: As far as obstacles go, technology and sponsorship seem to be common threads among all respondents. – Compliance with federal data protection regulations. The centralized approach creates lengthy legal discussions on data transfer.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2023

Breaking Down Barriers and Removing Silos Today, most patients are unable to obtain a cohesive view of their health data from general practitioners, specialists, and other clinicians. Now, to achieve this promise of real change, it comes down to a true, shared commitment from all healthcare stakeholders.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Pandemic Institute has launched in Liverpool, UK, to help prevent, prepare and respond more effectively to pandemics. Help innovative businesses of all sizes to use data responsibly without undue uncertainty or risk, both in the UK and internationally. NTT DATA UK TEAM UP WITH UHL TO UPSKILL HOMELESS COMMUNITY.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Amazon is already well-entrenched in many health care activities, as a new report from Bertelsmann Stiftung presented in this chart. ” I added the bold emphasis here on the issue of personal health data.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2024

Without core systems, software, and data available, provider staff takes on tedious manual tasks, including managing schedules, payment reconciliation, and reviewing extensive patient data, which overburdens them and further compounds negative impacts on operational efficiency due to decreased process efficiency and productivity.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not add IDD to the list of conditions associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes until February of 2022. Though the CDC has not publicly commented on this delay, it is likely due to the fact that adequate data was not being collected on this population during the pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2023

Having early insight into abnormal blood sugar activity or body functioning can help individuals prevent health conditions from worsening. With the rise in digital health services, we have a wide variety of data at the tip of our fingers – accessible from nearly anywhere on a smartphone or computer.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Namely, legal protections concerning personal health data may not apply when the entity offering the service is decidedly not a “provider.” To illustrate the issue, consider that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) expressly covers genetic information as a form of health data.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. The lack of regulation within third-party environments raises privacy and security concerns for patients and healthcare organizations alike.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And, after COVID-19 further exposed deeply rooted health disparities across communities, the Quintuple Aim. Achieving health equity is now a primary goal for providers, payers, regulators, and patient advocates seeking to ensure that healthcare is accessible and effective for all.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A key challenge in sharing health personnel resources more broadly and equitably is the lack of uniformity for provider credentialing, patient identification, and data sharing among different countries and jurisdictions. Consequently, barrier-free data sharing is unlikely to occur for a long time.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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NCQA

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The recent inclusion of HEDIS ® reporting as a Level 2 exchange purpose in two standard operating procedures under TEFCA highlights the industry’s dedication to leveraging interoperable health data for digital quality measurement. How Does TEFCA Relate to HEDIS?

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Health Business Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Data tokenization by Datavant and HealthVerity enables mixing and matching of disparate sources at the patient level and the generation of valuable clinical and commercial insights. COVID becomes less political.

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Cloud Blogs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

One is the rapid emergence of virtual care through digital tools such as telehealth and remote monitoring that have made it safer and more convenient for patients to connect with their doctors during the pandemic, and that is empowering individuals to take charge of their health in entirely new ways. Not for sale.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Congress’s expansion of access to telehealth takes steps to ensure continuity of care for Medicare beneficiaries and provides regulators with additional time to determine which flexibilities will become permanent, indicating a success for the telehealth industry as well as a reminder that there is more legislation to come.

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Lexis Nexis

JULY 20, 2022

Billions of dollars are available to health plans that achieve high scores under Medicare Star Ratings, a five-star quality rating system to measure their ability to meet members’ healthcare needs. More than 90 percent of US health plans use HEDIS measures to gauge their performance while serving more than 190 million Americans.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key. The proper use of encryption can prevent unauthorized users from viewing encrypted data in a usable form and may substantially reduce the risk of compromising ePHI.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key. The proper use of encryption can prevent unauthorized users from viewing encrypted data in a usable form and may substantially reduce the risk of compromising ePHI.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key. The proper use of encryption can prevent unauthorized users from viewing encrypted data in a usable form and may substantially reduce the risk of compromising ePHI.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key. The proper use of encryption can prevent unauthorized users from viewing encrypted data in a usable form and may substantially reduce the risk of compromising ePHI.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

These concerns fall into the buckets of health insurance coverage, or lack thereof; insurance denials; affordability for the breakthrough therapies; and, potential risks of future denials for insurance based on the patient’s personalized genomic or other health data.

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Today, 61% of healthcare data breaches are due to negligent employees. During this time, there were no federal regulations protecting health information. HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules help install these regulations. Template builds on efforts by states, health systems, and individual organizations and individuals.

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