Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2021
This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.” These methods could include: Making reidentification of “deidentified” health data illegal.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 12, 2022
In a deal that has gotten a fair bit of attention – and could lead to much bigger things – Epic has agreed to introduce a version of its EHR that should be easier to run on Apple devices. Instead, the deal the two giants struck was for Epic to create a version of its EHR that will run more easily on Apple devices.
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Health Blawg
AUGUST 20, 2018
He notes that we’re really just getting started: When the Recovery Act was enacted in 2009, the EHR adoption rate nationally was about 10%, and that rate got up over 50% in 2013. Since we couldn’t expect interoperability before a critical mass of providers were using EHRs, 2014-15 was the timeframe for starting to think about it.
Health Blawg
AUGUST 20, 2018
He notes that we’re really just getting started: When the Recovery Act was enacted in 2009, the EHR adoption rate nationally was about 10%, and that rate got up over 50% in 2013. Since we couldn’t expect interoperability before a critical mass of providers were using EHRs, 2014-15 was the timeframe for starting to think about it.
Health Populi
JANUARY 27, 2022
At the same time, the growing application of AI and personalized medicine requires the use of all kinds of personal information that extends well beyond claims data in the electronic health record. A few over-arching findings: Consumers’ views of sharing health data depend on context.
Health Populi
MAY 2, 2019
The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2018
A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.
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