KevinMD

MARCH 3, 2019

Since the passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, it has been said that health tech would dramatically revolutionize health care and the patient experience.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. Here’s what I wrote. That was tweeted ten years ago.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We must remember that the big push to digital records launched by the HITECH act in 2009 gave billions of dollars to clinicians but didn’t reach the social service agencies that we now depend on for social determinants of health. Thus, the agencies have been trying to evolve and adopt 21st-century tools with little support.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

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. Their portfolio is very diverse ranging from genetics to telemedicine.

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