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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data. Ultimately Congressional action is needed to establish meaningful privacy protections for personal data.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data. Ultimately Congressional action is needed to establish meaningful privacy protections for personal data.

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Lucia Savage Discusses Highlights of the Upcoming Health Datapalooza

Healthcare IT Today

The Health Datapalooza conference is a unique annual event. As the playful name suggests, it’s a somewhat countercultural happening, a place for freewheeling and respectfully critical discussion among health data experts.

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Color Me Healthy – Pantone’s Forecast on Post-Pandemic Well-Being and Design

Health Populi

I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering wellbeing and community looking out to 2022/23. For context, Pantone plays a role in your life you might not realize.

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mHealth Insights live from #HIMSS18

mHealth Insight

These can range from mHealth/IoT applications which support real-time patient engagement to unstructured data associated with social determinants to data based upon genomic-screening. Developing an interoperable infrastructure that supports these use cases is a process that has already begun. and Edwin W Miller, CTO, Aledade.

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Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

Lloyd Price

In addition to these benefits, open source software is also becoming increasingly interoperable. This means that data from open source applications can be easily shared with other systems, which is essential for the future of healthcare. FHIR: An open standard for exchanging health data.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The research found that peoples’ exposure to clinician quality information doubled between 2010 and 2015, and more consumers sought quality metrics — albeit, with differences across sub-groups of people (e.g.,