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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. As RFID expands rapidly, it can trigger security and privacy concerns. Addressing Security and Privacy Concerns with RFID Regarding security and privacy concerns, one primary consideration is the information stored on RFID tags.

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VIP Patients in #FHIR

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The FHIR security tag `VIP` is used to indicate that a patient's health information is considered to be highly confidential and requires heightened security measures. VIP is a designation of a person, not a designation of the data. This may be due to the patient's public profile, occupation, or other factors.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. As Uwe Reinhardt, health economist guru , is whispering in my ear from his heavenly perch, “It’s the virus, stupid.” There are some important differences between men and women regarding health and wealth in 2021.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams.