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Zus Health Closes Financing, Signs Partnership with Elation Health, to Accelerate Growth of its Data Service to Provide Connective Tissue for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Zus Health , (pronounced “Zoose”), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing.

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Patient Identity Management the IHE way

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Most important, this is not an interoperability problem Nationwide Patient Identity Management, especially in a federation like the USA, is a balance between quality, privacy, and safety. Where health data are involved, mistakes in identity can be a permanent privacy violation. MHDS Background 50.7.4 MHDS Background 50.7.4

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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By 2020, 1-in-5 Healthcare organisations will adopt Blockchain says new IDC report

Lloyd Price

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights.