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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health

Redox

Before you can exchange data with other Carequality organizations, you must be granted approval from Carequality under one or more predefined purposes of use describing t how you will use the data that you retrieve. Currently, organizations are only required to respond to queries for the Treatment purpose of use , as defined by HIPAA.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Each of these use cases brings with it a unique set of programmatic and technical components. In a word, no.

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Don't miss the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit

Medicine and Technology

The Summit will feature: A summary of recent and upcoming policy and regulatory changes that are strengthening patients' rights and ability to access their health data electronically, including Meaningful Use and HITECH modifications to HIPAA.

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Ed Marx, Cleveland Clinic CIO – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

One recent example is the Clinic’s collaboration with Oscar (the health insurance company). Ed highlighted one Clinic example where this was reduced to two or three years, and another where a physician was able to leverage technology to address a problem and apply a solution within about a year. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Ed Marx, Cleveland Clinic CIO – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

One recent example is the Clinic’s collaboration with Oscar (the health insurance company). Ed highlighted one Clinic example where this was reduced to two or three years, and another where a physician was able to leverage technology to address a problem and apply a solution within about a year.