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Manage your health data, or trust blindly? Setting the stage for a data disaster, part 2

Society for Participatory Medicine

That’s pretty much what happened to me ten years ago this month, except it wasn’t my money, it was my health data. That was ten years ago this week, and to understand what’s happening in health data right now, it helps to know how we got here. FHIR is on the horizon. This is good.

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HIStalk Interviews Stephen Brown, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, UI Health

HIStalk Interviews

Then I transitioned to University of Illinois in 2011 to start a preventive emergency medicine program. The FHIR standard is a promising technology, but as we found with the CMMI Accountable Health Communities, there is a substantial gap in tech between health IT and community IT.

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Submission to the Senate inquiry on My Health Record

Health Intersections

This would allow for the implementation of the National Digital Health Strategy, and stimulate innovation to improve health, and leverage international standards and programs. I am the Product Director and Community Lead for the FHIR standard , which is published through HL7 , the leading international healthcare standards provider.

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

Health Populi

APIs, Internet of (Healthy) Things, and AR/VR among the others are getting deployed in retail channels and at home to support peoples’ health in the real world, in real time outside of the clinical setting. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Simultaneously, these biomarkers must be of sufficient direct value to patients to justify their participation in the data-collection effort. Greater investment in the science of digital biomarkers is needed to evaluate the value of mobile health data for clinical use. None of this is easy. billion in investments in 2018.