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Physicians Increasingly Interested In Use of Patient-Generated Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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2020 Could Be The Year Wearables Find Their Place In Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

After many years as a black sheep of the healthcare family, the wearable is coming into its own. This has been signaled in no uncertain terms by Google, a kingmaker if there ever was one, which recently acquired wearables giant Fitbit for $2.1 As influential and cash-rich as Google is, though, I don’t think even […].

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Ochsner Health System’s Digital Medicine Program Success

Consumer eHealth Engagement

EMR Foundation. “The technology foundation of our Digital Medicine Programs is the EMR Epic,” explains Milani. “Our patients are given clinically validated devices approved for the program, with device data flowing into the EMR.”

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Empowering Healthcare: The Transformative Role of Technology in Improving Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

This data is then automatically entered into the patient’s electronic health record (EHR) in a structured format, which can be easily searched, analyzed, and shared among healthcare providers. Some of the biggest hospital chains are seeing business rebound to pre-pandemic levels, but the industry as a whole has a ways to go.

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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the 21st Century Cures Act with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS

Healthcare IT Today

One of the interviews I was most looking forward to at the now cancelled HIMSS 2020 annual conference was with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS. I’ve found that the government relations people at organizations like HIMSS are some of the most well informed people and are fonts of knowledge on what we […].

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Patient Portals Improve Healthcare Outcomes. So, Why Don’t Patients Use Them?

Healthcare IT Today

They’re designed to make life easier for patients, and studies show they can even help reduce hospital visits, like in 2020 when heart failure patients using these portals saw fewer hospital readmissions. But there’s a catch. Despite their benefits, many patients aren’t using these portals.

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Patient/caregiver letter supporting proposed ONC rule on improving flow of our data

Society for Participatory Medicine

To do this we must be involved in our health data if we want, as our stories below will make clear. . Yet, somehow, in the year 2020 in the most technologically advanced nation on the globe, we, as American patients, remain unable to easily and quickly access our own health data, or to decide how it is used.