2021, Health Data and Health Information

Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.” Seven in ten U.S.

Health Information

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

Health Data

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. 20% of people used online health services, and 20% intent to keep using them. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of U.S. CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S.

Digital Health

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. We first note overall that fewer patients, year on year 2021-2023, seem willing to share data with ANY entity.

Mental health

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Crescendo Health Launches to Improve and Accelerate Clinical Trials By Unlocking Patient Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Crescendo Health , an innovative health data company powering the next generation of clinical research, today announced its official launch with a mission to revolutionize how patients contribute real-world data to clinical studies.

Health Data

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. adults polled. adults polled. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

Digital Health

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Reproductive Health Data: Open Standard Offers Access Control, Revocation, and Other Traits

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In short, the shock of the Roe v Wade reversal highlights what privacy advocates and health IT activists have said for at least fifteen years: Patients need to control their own health data and protect it against unwanted releases. If the apps incorporate the work of SecureCycle, they could offer enhanced security and control.

Health Data

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

HIPAA

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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More granularly, most consumers (over two-thirds) were concerned about allowing apps or sites to access their location data, online banking, accepting cookies on sites, creating new accounts on apps or sites, sharing health information with apps or sites, online shopping, paying bills, and so on. Few people in the U.S.

Public Health

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Prominent Telehealth Startups Sharply Criticized by US Senators

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) called on three telehealth companies to protect their patient’s sensitive health data. Who Is Protecting Patient Health Information?

Telehealth

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The Federal Trade Commission Accuses GoodRx Of Multiple Data Sharing Fails, Demands It Pay $1.5 Million Fine and Make Reforms

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

Health Information

Health Information Telehealth Health Data HIPAA

Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

Mental health

Mental health mHealth HIPAA Health Data

Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

It involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare data to support decision-making, facilitate communication, and improve healthcare outcomes. The field encompasses a wide range of technologies, such as electronic health records (EHRs) , clinical decision support systems (CDSS), telemedicine, and health data analytics.

Healthcare Informatics

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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chad Peterson, Managing Director at NetSPI As ransomware attacks become more sophisticated, healthcare organizations have become desirable targets due to the valuable data shared across medical records and the constant need for service availability.

Health Information

Health Information EHR HIPAA Telehealth

What’s on Micky Tripathi’s Wish List? Highlights from #DirectTrustSummit Day 1

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2021

Micky Tripathi, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services shared his interoperability wish list during his opening keynote at the 2021 Direct Trust Summit. Topping his list was richer information exchange to support advanced payment models.

Interoperability

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BetterHelp Investigated by FTC for Sharing Sensitive Consumer Data

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

million for “deceiving consumers after promising to keep sensitive personal data private.” ” Unprecedented in telehealth history, the sharing of sensitive health information in early 2023 is poised to shatter provider naivete about working for large-scale business entities entering healthcare.

Mental health

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I: What We Learned in 2020 & What We’re Expecting This Year

Redox

MARCH 10, 2021

2021 is the promise of more apps that simplify the healthcare process, bring telehealth directly to devices, and allow people to collect and share health data with clinicians. As well, coupled with price transparency, consumers should be able to own and manage their health information for preventative and chronic care.

Interoperability

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Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

The solution: Driving health information exchange and introducing connected-care applications Clínica Alemana Osorno has responded to these issues with a comprehensive digital transformation strategy. It introduced solutions for care collaboration and patient engagement in 2022.

Interoperability

Interoperability Connected Care Patient Experience Health Information

Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

HIPAA

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A Look at HIEs and 2 Perspectives for Data Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

In response to this tweet by Kristen Valdes during the SHIEC 2021 conference happening this week in Arizona, Brendan Keeler offered this really important look into healthcare data exchange and HIEs.

HIE

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. 46% of U.S. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

Digital Health

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Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

Medicare

Medicare Healthcare IT Connected Health EHR

Why is Amazon failing in Healthcare?

Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2023

Alexa can provide health information, schedule appointments, and connect users to healthcare providers through voice commands. The device collects a significant amount of personal health data, which raises privacy concerns among users. However, in January 2021, it was announced that Haven would be shutting down.

Pharmaceuticals

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Bonus Features – June 26, 2022 – Walgreens gets into clinical trials, ONC offering SDOH grants, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

The first is addressing health equity and SDOH using a combination of open-source technology and EHR systems. The second is demonstrating use cases for patient-generated health data to address equity in clinical care and research. Care coordination network CarePort released its 2021 growth numbers. Partnerships.

Drug Development

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The Philips Future Health Index 2021 Report , which surveyed nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 14 countries, found that healthcare leaders expect an average of 23% of routine care to take place outside of the hospital walls within three years.

Interoperability

Interoperability Telehealth Connected Care Leadership

Transforming Healthcare Delivery: The Rise of Telemedicine

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 7, 2023

Legal and regulatory issues: Telemedicine involves the exchange of sensitive health information across jurisdictions and platforms, necessitating attention to privacy, security, consent, liability, reimbursement, licensing, and accreditation. References: Medical News Today (2021). WebMD (2021). Merriam-Webster (2023).

Telemedicine

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Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I called 2021 weird , then 2022 just as weird , but 2023? Just last week, five organizations were officially recognized as QualIfied Health Information Networks (QHINs) and HHS announced TEFCA as officially operational. Decidedly weirder. Although we were wrong on the specifics, there was plenty of regulatory activity in 2023.

Interoperability

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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Transforming healthcare A report from the London School of Economics, The Role of Virtual Health Care and the Pharmaceutical Sector in Improving Population Health , published in 2021, forecast that the pharmaceutical industry would be a core player in all aspects from population health management to preventive and therapeutic care.

Pharmaceuticals

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The Ever Evolving World of Cybersecurity Threats

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

As a result, health data is creeping into cloud-based tools where it becomes exposed to very new and very real security threats – some of which healthcare organizations have never had to deal with before. In January 2021, HHS’s Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) rule was signed into law.

Healthcare IT

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances.

Life Science

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Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure.

Interoperability

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Access to Abortion Pills via Telehealth Abortion Services

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

That policy was made permanent in 2021. The finding suggests that many people, including women seeking or discussing abortion pills, will not understand the privacy implications of the apps that track their behavioral or other health information.

Telehealth

Telehealth Pharmaceuticals HIPAA Mental health

Access to Abortion Pills via Telehealth Abortion Services

Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 20, 2023

That policy was made permanent in 2021. The finding suggests that many people, including women seeking or discussing abortion pills, will not understand the privacy implications of the apps that track their behavioral or other health information.

Telehealth

Telehealth Pharmaceuticals HIPAA Mental health

Google Care Studio: Creating a Longitudinal Health Record

Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Google Care Studio emerged from the company's healthcare initiatives, which began in the early 2000s with the development of Google Health, a personal health record platform. Over time, Google expanded its focus on healthcare data and analytics, leading to the introduction of Care Studio in 2021.

EHR

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California says goodbye to fax machines. Hello to DxF.

Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework (CA DxF) is a novel statewide data-sharing agreement between healthcare providers, health plans, laboratories, government agencies, and social service programs. It was established through CA Assembly Bill 133 in 2021. Is this just another HIE?

HIE

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Using AI Responsibly and Ethically in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Will healthcare organizations sacrifice data privacy as they implement and rely more on AI? In 2021, healthcare data breaches impacted 45 million people. The Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Office for Civil Rights received reports of 63 breaches of 500+ records in September 2022. increase from 2021.

Patient Experience

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC). Given the health tech market’s rapid growth, there is certainly more to come.

Interoperability

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How RPM & PERS Offer More Data-Driven Insight to Healthcare Organizations

Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In addition, a system that employs both telehealth/RPM and PERS provides clinicians with reliable electronically captured patient-generated health data (PGHD). While telehealth is often considered to be an equal experience to in-person care, the fact is that data gathered in clinics is often missing from telehealth encounters.

Telehealth

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5 Reasons Why Remote Patient Monitoring Help to Avoid Diabetes Medication Errors

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 30, 2022

In fact, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new requirements sometime in April and July 2021, requiring that patients must be able to download and view their own EMRs electronically. RPM integrated with EMRs for data encoding and remote transmission enables data sharing between systems and different entities.

EMR

EMR Health Data Telehealth Medicare

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

NextGen announced that clients using NextGen Population Health achieved an average of $9 million in savings in 2021 in the Medicare Shared Savings Program MSSP. East Tennessee Health Information Network chose 4medica to improve patient matching and health data quality and reduce duplicate patient records.

Telehealth

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Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “tremendous potential” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

from 2021 to 2022. Products Interoperability platform Particle Health launched Particle FOCUS , a data product suite that provides comprehensive patient health information across seven chronic disease states. Nova Scotia Health chose MDclone to enable the use of synthetic health data for research.

RCM

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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

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

News Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. Small practices were less likely to use the technology than larger offices or health systems, though the ONC data saw rural and urban physicians adapting telehealth at similar rates.

Telemedicine

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health. Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually.

Health IT

Health IT Public Health Interoperability FHIR

Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Crescendo Health Launches to Improve and Accelerate Clinical Trials By Unlocking Patient Health Data

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Reproductive Health Data: Open Standard Offers Access Control, Revocation, and Other Traits

The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Prominent Telehealth Startups Sharply Criticized by US Senators

The Federal Trade Commission Accuses GoodRx Of Multiple Data Sharing Fails, Demands It Pay $1.5 Million Fine and Make Reforms

Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

What’s on Micky Tripathi’s Wish List? Highlights from #DirectTrustSummit Day 1

BetterHelp Investigated by FTC for Sharing Sensitive Consumer Data

I: What We Learned in 2020 & What We’re Expecting This Year

Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

A Look at HIEs and 2 Perspectives for Data Exchange

Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Why is Amazon failing in Healthcare?

Bonus Features – June 26, 2022 – Walgreens gets into clinical trials, ONC offering SDOH grants, and more

The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Transforming Healthcare Delivery: The Rise of Telemedicine

Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

The Ever Evolving World of Cybersecurity Threats

At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Access to Abortion Pills via Telehealth Abortion Services

Access to Abortion Pills via Telehealth Abortion Services

Google Care Studio: Creating a Longitudinal Health Record

California says goodbye to fax machines. Hello to DxF.

Using AI Responsibly and Ethically in Healthcare

Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

How RPM & PERS Offer More Data-Driven Insight to Healthcare Organizations

5 Reasons Why Remote Patient Monitoring Help to Avoid Diabetes Medication Errors

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “tremendous potential” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

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

How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

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