article thumbnail

What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. So what is primary care, anyway? visits per 100 member-years.

article thumbnail

#WWBR Week of July 27, 2015

Chilmark Research

“Confusion about HIPAA privacy and security is one thing. HIPAA is often cited as a reason for not sharing patient data in contexts where HIPAA does not apply. Working Under a Clinic-Level Quality Incentive: Primary Care Clinicians’ Perceptions. Paula Span for The New York Times. Feigned confusion is another.

HIPAA 60
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Telecardiology – a quick overview and a list of AI-integrated providers

Digital Health Hub

Due to the complex nature of cardiological conditions, telecardiology is becoming a much used modality for obtaining specialist second opinion or for providing care to people in remote locations. The acquired ECG signals are transferred to the receiving end, which is usually the specialist’s office.

article thumbnail

Telecardiology – a quick overview and a list of AI-integrated providers

Digital Health Hub

Due to the complex nature of cardiological conditions, telecardiology is becoming a much used modality for obtaining specialist second opinion or for providing care to people in remote locations. The acquired ECG signals are transferred to the receiving end, which is usually the specialist’s office. Benefits of telecardiology.

article thumbnail

Amazon healthcare initiatives wake up an industry slow to change

Lloyd Price

the country's fourth largest health insurer, which Aetna tried to bag in 2015. Care provides video consults and dispatches medical professionals as needed to an employee for tests, shots and in-person procedures.It And there are frequent rumors of potential mergers between large corporations and healthcare companies. trillion annually.

article thumbnail

Fred Trotter on Data Journalism and Cybersecurity — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Fred is a health care IT veteran, founder of CareSet Systems and the DocGraph Journal and an alum of multiple successful technical startups. He’s the co-author of O’Reilly’s first health IT book, Hacking Healthcare, and the 2015 recipient of the Healthcare Data Liberator of the Year award.

EHR 113
article thumbnail

FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

(If you’re being compliant or adherent you’ll read those three first: SaMD: Key Definitions (2013), SaMD: Possible Framework for Risk Categorization and Corresponding Considerations (2014), and SaMD: Application of Quality Management System (2015).) by David Harlow […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and.