Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” First, the law.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The closing of thousands of bank branches in favor of online banking, the elimination of paper social security statements , the near-elimination of paper savings bonds for the grandchildren, and the ubiquitous introduction of the QR code in restaurants – saving labor. But for some older adults, it’s one negative experience after another.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 14, 2023

It is more and more important to have Test Data to use to assure that: Your client is connected to the right server Your client is properly connected to the oAuth service Your client understands the profiled data This could be done with a sandbox server that contains only test data, but this only can address #3.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive. The merger and acquisition of companies in other industries ultimately results in consolidation of data. Platforms matter—they enable data standardization which in turn fuels growth. Manage the wellbeing, security and satisfaction of the residents.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Data may be “Normal” medical data or “Restricted” medical data. The distinction is for this IG focused purely on data classification for sensitive topics. The classification of data into sensitive topcs is the role of the Security Labeling Service (SLS).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2023

In fact, as lives lengthen, data about aging individuals dwindles inversely. Start searching for recently surveyed data about individuals aged 75+. Data returned was from 2017, with an apology that nothing more recent was available. million are working, some live only on Social Security income. Don’t believe it?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News Interoperability: Where it's headed, and where IT leaders will be investing Five CIOs, a COO and a CMIO chart a course for the complex demands of data exchange, and discuss. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) By Bill Siwicki | November 15, 2021.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Emergency-Room tends to focus on stabilizing the patient and this can often be done in complete absence of historic data. Further when data are available, the clinicians in the Emergency-Room tend to already be operating at elevated privilege. Patient Privacy Consent restricts some data for Treatment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

" People Power’s solution leverages passive in-home sensors similar to those found in a security system and does not require cameras or wearables. Advanced machine learning and AI services are applied to learn individualized lifestyle patterns privately and securely within each home. Learn more. Learn more.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I covered how to include Test data in Production Environments using the HTEST tag. That article explained how data that is not real patient data, that is to say 'test' data, would be tagged with HTEST. This is a clear indication of what data in the Production Environment is test data vs not test data.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2022

There are legitimate reasons for data to be embargoed for some timeframe. I am not a fan of these reasons, but as a Privacy and Security subject matter expert, I get asked how to solve these business needs. Oh, and data embargoed from the Patient would also need to be embargoed from their delegates (parent, guardian, etc).

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 19, 2023

That is, that when data are being requested/downloaded for the intent of feeding to a Machine Learning; this action should be distinguished from a request for Treatment. This use-case would need the above ability to understand when a data request could result in the data being used for Machine Learning.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In 2024, as a result of European pressure, Google announced how to disconnect some ‘Linked Services’ in Europe , a euphemism for passing your data (you) from one Google product to another, a feature that may appear in the US one day, though will it really change anything? Did anything change? Not really. We are back to the beginning.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data. And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma. Adopt sound security protocols and tech.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

To this end, the task force has gathered expert stakeholders across the industry with the purpose of maturing granular data segmentation standards and implementation guidance in order to sponsor patient-driven sharing of health information with informed consent and advance interoperability in a more equitable manner. Why do I express this?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

August 22, 2023 Sponsored Enhancing healthcare collaboration through the power of secure instant messaging Secure messaging apps are proving to be a key tool for healthcare organizations. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Analytics Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 5, 2023

These are some initial thoughts.Resources should use security labels. The patient has the unfettered right to see the data. This could be the code used to tag data that is sensitive to GENDER, although this is actually a policy code. link] I'm trying to think through how to go about it and it seems challenging.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2019

They required maximal security, compliance, scalability, affordability, and reliability of their critical infrastructure. Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Delivering Compliance and Integration for Telemedicine Solutions Region Tag: Global Edition

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Data privacy protections will part of solution planning. One of the five key vulnerabilities in healthcare data security is The Internet of Things. In fact, 63% of healthcare companies reported a security incident related to ‘unmanaged IoT devices.’

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

One-third of physicians have concerns about using virtual care services, such as medical errors that may result, access to technology, and data security. consumers are now tracking health via digital tools, and one-half of these share the data generated by their apps. One in two U.S.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In my last article I outlined the need to recognize that health data have various kinds of sensitivity, which informs various types of Privacy rules of access, to support the goal of Privacy. Thus Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P). Please read this article on Vectors through Consent to Control Big-Data Feeding frenzy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

This is recognised as a long-term issue for the sector, but the new motivation to solve this challenge is bringing longstanding issues around sharing of health data, financing and past failures back under scrutiny. This in turn restricts how responsive services and systems can be to patients. Looking beyond COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

At present, health systems have robust analytics tools at hand to extract data from their electronic health records, but they can do a great deal more. Now is a good time for CIOs to look at ways to create a perfect platform that digs into a much more comprehensive array of data. Region Tag: Global Edition. Work from anywhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2020

Artificial Intelligence Network Infrastructure Precision Medicine Privacy & Security Telehealth Its CIO looks ahead to a future with advances in mobility, imaging, telemedicine, virtual reality, 5G/6G, artificial intelligence, data security, genomic sequencing and translational research.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 12, 2024

The platform also leverages encryption protocols to protect user and vendor data and deploys regular security audits and updates to safeguard against potential threats. With CharmHealthApps, users gain greater access to new solutions with a seamless flow of data between selected applications and CharmHealth.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have covered the vision of Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) concept, and outline how a Security Labeling Service (SLS) would enable this grandiose vision of DS4P. Which does not help for Data Segmentation nor Privacy. I have used bold/underbar to indicate where I enhanced the original text. for "_confidentiality".

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Data collection is key. Healthcare now relies on increasingly large amounts of data for maximizing both artificial intelligence (AI) and revenue cycle management (RCM) systems. BHM Healthcare Solutions understands the value of data in getting healthcare organizations to next-gen analytics. Web Data Collection Wiki.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Platforms: Platforms are required to aggregate data and facilitate communication between patients, physicians, and caregivers. Facilities and providers can choose to reduce the noise created by large volumes of data from personal devices by requesting data at specified intervals only.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Technological advancements: New technologies offer more personalised, data-driven, and effective pain management strategies. Wearables & Biosensors: Continuous pain monitoring and data collection for personalized treatment plans. Remote patient monitoring: Continuous data collection for proactive intervention and improved outcomes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

They help you manage dementia care tasks with confidence and privacy, on our secure HIPAA compliant infrastructure. BoundaryCare is an app for the Apple Watch that promotes caregiver peace of mind and empowers aging-in-place by silently gathering information about safety and wellness and sharing this data with caregivers when necessary.

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The press release definitely leaned into the “unlabeled round” theme, offering neither a Series title nor a dollar value, although it did tag the funding for growing NeuroFlow “to match the increase in demand for its solutions” among health systems, payors, and government agencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

The confluence of today’s technological advances – in data analytics, digital sensor technologies, 5G networks, artificial intelligence and machine learning, genomic medicine, and elsewhere – offers the potential to transform medicine as we know it. Region Tag: Global Edition. Advanced medicine through analytics.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

MedSign’s Qortex is a secure, HIPAA-compliant, two-way communication platform that connects healthcare professionals to their patients through the home television. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , social isolation , Learning, working, contribution and legacy. Learn more at HomeThrive.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

Vendors still claim a that market penetration is still low, that only 8% of seniors believe they need such a device , a helpful persuasion tactic to motivate security dealers and retailers. Data from devices was captured, but not used. T he status in 2013 was bleak in terms of functionality. Prices were high, functionality was low.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

But data about care recipient being used in the next stage of care? category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care , AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , AgeTech It depends on where one stands as to whether those predictions came to pass. Care status offered in multiple interface options?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Privacy and security features will be built into design of software and websites. Despite standards initiatives like Matter in 2022 , or ONC Interoperability efforts, many of today’s gadgets still don’t communicate – especially with each other’s proprietary systems or data sets (like Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Interoperable Consent Standards My main focus is on enabling Health Information to flow given proper Security and Privacy. Enabling data to flow when it should, and blocking data from flowing when it should not. Thus the patient data flows in cases that the Patient does not want it to flow. The math is just not very big.

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