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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? With a HIPAA-secure communication channel and easy integration with personal devices, telemedicine removes challenges faced by remote and isolated patients. How do you see all of this affecting physicians and their busy schedules?

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible.

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California says goodbye to fax machines. Hello to DxF.

Redox

Consequences for non-participation are currently unclear, although providers may be cited for non-compliance with federal information blocking regulations which, according to the recent HHS proposed rule could be up to $1 million per violation. Is this just another HIE? The CA DxF includes both clinical and social determinants data.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. Verily Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, was founded in 2015.