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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

Health consumer, patient, and caregiver literacy for and acceptance of digital health work- and life-flows. Lack of data interoperability, and. Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection.

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American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies

Healthcare IT Today

Principles Concerning Privacy According to Zebley, the privacy team believes that the federal government must update HIPAA, which covers organizations narrowly associated with traditional medical treatment, and regulated the many organizations and digital apps that collect personal health data. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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Core Principles for Application Decommissioning and Data Archiving

Healthcare IT Today

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Aiming for Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

Yet, from 2013-2017, 78% of the drugs approved by the FDA had only one dose regimen and of the drugs considered to be amenable to response-guided treatment, only 39% provided relevant dose instructions. These factors not only vary between individuals of different races, gender, age etc., but also in the same person over time.

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Some advantages include increased utilization of recommended therapies, shorter hospital stays, fewer emergency room visits, and better health outcomes.In In a 2013 study about diabetes management in US primary care settings , researchers found that the Chronic Care Model has effectively sustained diabetes care.