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What physicians can learn from anthropologists

KevinMD

Since the passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, it has been said that health tech would dramatically revolutionize health care and the patient experience.

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Dollar General, the Latest Retail Health Destination?

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve been tracking the growing retail health ecosystem for over a decade, writing in 2009 about Costco’s envisioning “health care in every pot.”

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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Trust Is a Key Social Currency for COVID-Embattled Consumers

Health Populi

FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. Trusting relationships as a top-three factor grew by 50% over the proportion of people who cited in in February 2009 at the throes of the Great Recession.

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The Heart Health Continuum at #CES2023 – From Prevention and Monitoring to Healthy Eating and Sleep

Health Populi

. “Despite breathtaking medical advancements since President Harry Truman declared war on heart disease 75 years ago, researchers have observed a disturbing trend that started in 2009: America’s death rate from heart-related conditions is climbing again,” the detailed essay explains.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

“HIPAA, as passed in 1996 and amended in 2009 through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, defines privacy through a sectoral lens. But are we asking too much of U.S. practicing physicians to carry the health data privacy and security burden?

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Workflow Automation To Help Deliver Services to Marginalized Populations

Healthcare IT Today

We must remember that the big push to digital records launched by the HITECH act in 2009 gave billions of dollars to clinicians but didn’t reach the social service agencies that we now depend on for social determinants of health. Thus, the agencies have been trying to evolve and adopt 21st-century tools with little support.