Mobile Health Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They frequently move, and with the option to work on the go, it will be critical for health systems to mobilize patient data with the individual. While health IT will help care for mobile patients, ensuring the technology is secure must also be the top priority. Meeting Mobile Health Challenges.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

On 1st March 2018, two over-arching issues remained with me leaving Las Vegas and #HIMSS18: the central, recognized role of cybersecurity threats in healthcare, and the growing use of consumer-facing technologies for self- and virtual care. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care. What a difference a couple of weeks make….

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

In an era where the HHS itself notes a 93% increase in large healthcare data breaches from 2018 to 2022, as well as a 278% increase in those that involve ransomware, suggesting “voluntary cybersecurity goals” is akin to applying a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

We know that “health information” encompasses much more than data stored in a health plan’s claims system or a pharmacy benefit manager’s computer data base. Health is made as much outside of medical care providers’ sites as it is at home, at work, at play, at school.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.) Listen live at 8:30 AM, 4:30 PM or 12:30 AM ET, Monday through Friday for the next two weeks at HealthcareNOW Radio.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.) Listen live at 8:30 AM, 4:30 PM or 12:30 AM ET, Monday through Friday for the next two weeks at HealthcareNOW Radio.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.) Listen live at 8:30 AM, 4:30 PM or 12:30 AM ET, Monday through Friday for the next two weeks at HealthcareNOW Radio.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 23, 2018

I believe Apple is interested in the Argonaut Project because it has a 2 year vision to make the iPhone a 'One-Stop Shop' for medical information, records and data. expect to see an Apple electronic health record in 2018 or 2019. What is the Argonaut Project?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Most physicians entered the profession, Medscape found , to form such relationships.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Thu, 07/19/2018 - 00:03. Through MyHealthEData, CMS envisions a future in which all patients have access to their own health data and use it to make the right decisions for themselves and to get the best value. Mohanraj.Balas…. Seema Verma.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2018, AMCA suffered a breach affecting 21 million patients. In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. In another settlement announced in 2017, 21st Century Oncology, Inc.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. Another study in 2018 suggested something more personal. This gap points to a deeper issue of accessibility and perhaps, trust in the system.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2023

The report also details critical information on how to successfully leverage HIN data when building digital healthcare tools and operating healthcare organizations or digital platforms. We’re about to enter a game-changing era in healthcare as Health Information Network access expands.” The paper, 2023: State of U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

In January, 2019, the coordinating body for Health IT (ONC) released interoperability advice, connecting people to their care , that requires representing the relationship between a patient and another person (provider, caregiver, or family member). Caregiving demands of an aging population drive policy change in 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI). Since 2018, ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations alone have cost the global economy $92 billion in downtime.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

There are a great many telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. “Azara, a population health tool that is a repository for data from eClinicalWorks, updates HealthEC weekly with any new data or information that has been entered into patents’ eCW records.” MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE. Click here to read the special report.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018 , too. Gerard Scheitlin, Chief Risk Officer – VP Security, Risk & Assurance, Orion Health. Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018, too. Gerard Scheitlin, Chief Risk Officer – VP Security, Risk & Assurance, Orion Health. Comments Comments.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018 , too. Gerard Scheitlin, Chief Risk Officer – VP Security, Risk & Assurance, Orion Health. Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018, too. Gerard Scheitlin, Chief Risk Officer – VP Security, Risk & Assurance, Orion Health. Comments Comments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

According to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Stat poll, by 2018 patient portals were employed by about 90% of the surveyed providers. . The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition. For years, patient portals have been considered the most efficient tool for patient engagement.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Before 2018, hacking accounted for fewer than 50% of all breaches. The mission of a SOC is to protect valuable customer/client data, protected health information, and intellectual property, achieved primarily through the prioritization, collection, and processing of security logs. Last year, 699 breaches affected 51.4

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

I talked on occasion with my counterparts at other health IT companies and they told the same stories: tempting dollars, questionable ethics. Fast forward a few years and I was at ONC, writing the text of what would become the 2014 Edition of the Certification Criteria for health Information Technology. Could they resist?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

The guidance would replace one issued by the agency in 2018. The agency's draft guidance is the latest of several publications regarding the health IT and medtech industry over the past few years. The FDA is requesting for comments to be submitted either in electronic or written form by July 7, 2022. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Earlier this year, Tausight launched its expanded AI-powered PHI Security Intelligence platform , which automates the identification and classification of electronically protected health information (PHI) to enhance the protection of healthcare patients’ most valuable confidential information.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). Deven’s observation is made based on Ciitizen’s study into some 3,000 medical record facilities between August 2018 and May 2019. Deven McGraw is Ciitizen’s Chief Regulatory Officer. [In

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

CAREMINDr is a health IT communications company that provides mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring systems that give physicians the ability to enroll their patients in condition-specific “journeys,” such as for diabetes and hypertension. Another product is called the eCareCompanion patient application.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. For an in-depth look into this phenomenon, see my report, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Getting Tracked and Used, written for the California Healthcare Foundation. Finally, read what U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Health care was the top issue driving voters to the 2018 mid-term elections. There’s surely lots of data to mine. Finally, patients are political.

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