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How Misinformation in Health Care Can Lead to Being “Dead Wrong” — KFF and Dr. G Connect the Dots

Health Populi

G” through her public health-informed broadcasts in the Miami media market during the pandemic. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has taken on the challenge of medical misinformation, calling it a serious threat to public health. Geeta took on the persona of “Dr.

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. But of course, Epic makes headlines more times than not, as it did numerous times in 2020 – starting with its debut of ambient voice technology.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” looking far enough in the future from now to 2030, recognizing that we will have had two U.S.

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Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management

Healthcare IT Today

The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. Of course, one of the biggest problems they faced was how do you handle identity across all of these various sources, functions, and services?

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Health IoT creates huge opportunities for public health and software companies

The Healthcare Guys

Murali and Peter (along with Medecision and Amida) are right in the middle of intersection of data, interoperability, hardware, software and services for IoT in healthcare; they were kind enough to share with me what they’re seeing as the major opportunities in the space. In the case of health care they cost lives and money.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.