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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. The variety of organizations that provide data (clinical settings, labs, community-based organizations, etc.)

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Health informatics pioneer Larry Weed dies at 93

Meaningful HIT News

. “The unaided mind does not know what data to collect, and does not see many of the significant relationships buried in whatever data are collected,” Weed said in a 2004 story I wrote for Health-IT World, a former spinoff of Bio-IT World. “What you see is a function of who you are.”

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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. Those are all things that are measurable and that health IT could take an active role in bringing forth. What motivated you to move from a technology and sales career to becoming a social worker?

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

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. But how easy will it actually be? Source : [link]

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Submission to the Senate inquiry on My Health Record

Health Intersections

Associated with these technologies, there have been major new developments in data exchange protocols – particularly the growth of web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and the OAuth standard that supports federated authentication processes. In the last decade, these technologies and standards have transformed whole industries.

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

Health Populi

I’ve covered this influential document here in Health Populi through my health economics/consumer tech lens for most years since 2011 (skipping 2012 and 2016). 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014 – Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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