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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

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The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. The Sequoia Project published an implementation guide for HIE technology for vendors, networks, and testers. In addition, Quantum Health formed an Oncology Clinical Advisory Board.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

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A roundtable cohosted by Department of Health and Human services issued a report in December 2019 listing about two dozen data elements (pages 43-44), such as eligibility for social programs, air quality, and exposure to violence. The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7.

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Bonus Features – March 12, 2023 – 87% of docs used telemedicine in 2021, 65% of healthcare orgs collect more trivial data once they adopt the cloud, and more

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News Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. Reports By the middle of 2022, behavioral health visit volume was 18% higher that pre-pandemic levels , according to an analysis from Trilliant Health.