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Weekender 6/22/18

HIStalk Weekender

million in penalties for HIPAA violations stemming from three data breaches and non-compliance in following up with device encryption. Can you imagine if you’d been on an EHR for 70+ years and have to now rattle off 100 different medications that you’re not taking since you were born? and I have to ask: what were you doing before?

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

This year there was job posting for a HIPAA compliance lead for the Alexa team. Google started a health-records initiative in 2008, but shut it down by 2011, citing poor adoption. Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

These two dozen exhibits detail growing adoption of digital tech in health care, the growth of genomics and EHR adoption, examples of these tools from “A” (Apple) to “Z” (Zocdoc), and on the last page of that chapter, medical spending in the U.S., the highest in raw and per capita numbers versus the rest of the world.

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