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FHIR, cloud, pop health and social determinants spark new security challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There is also a big push for increasing a patient’s autonomy around their personal health information and the access they have to it, especially via personal devices which are likely to be used in the future to communicate directly with providers, if they aren’t already. FHIR and APIs.

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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

Thanks to the rapid development and push for digital tools and apps to track vaccination status, reactions to the vaccine and future dose reminders, and COVID-19 test results, health care consumers are growing increasingly aware of what it means to have access to their health information.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies. Digital transformation: Healthcare making progress but much work remains. by May 10, 2019.

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

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The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. The company's next evolution of that journey is Azure Health Data Services. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) defines SDoH in five categories : social context (a very broad category that includes, for instance discrimination and neighborhood safety), economic context, education, physical infrastructure, and healthcare context (such as access).