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SPM’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rules

Society for Participatory Medicine

. “ We must fight back – it’s our health, your health. The Institute of Medicine said in 2012 that patient-clinician partnerships are a key to “best care at lower cost” – and as Dr. Danny Sands says, “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see?

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information.

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Patient Identity Management the IHE way

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Most important, this is not an interoperability problem Nationwide Patient Identity Management, especially in a federation like the USA, is a balance between quality, privacy, and safety. Where health data are involved, mistakes in identity can be a permanent privacy violation. Here are the IHE relevant works on the topic of Patient.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

The ONC’s definition of a tethered PHR is very similar to the definition that the agency provides for patient portals: A patient portal is a secure online website that gives patients convenient 24-hour access to personal health information from anywhere with an Internet connection. They want to do something fun and engaging.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

Patrick Ndimubanzi, Honorable Minister of State, Public Health and Primary Health Care, Rwanda Digital Health Innovation in Rwanda Let's explore 5 examples of Digital Health innovation in Rwanda ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to blood delivery by drones and telemedicine.

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Unfortunate Hits on HIT

LinkousThink

The latest issue of Health Affairs ([link] has brought into question two tenets behind HIT: reducing the number of medical tests and increasing quality based on increased electronic health information. It will be interesting to see if these reports inhibit further adoption initiatives.

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Australia Struggles with Rollout of National Electronic Health Record System as 900,000 Citizens opt out

Lloyd Price

Privacy and Security the Biggest Challenge In February, Dark Daily reported that Australia’s largest pathology laboratories signed agreements with the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) to join the nationwide EHR project. million citizens. million SingHealth patients in the nation’s worst cyberattack.

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