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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

Healthcare IT Today

A recent offering from LexisNexis Risk Solutions promises to greatly expand access to this data, called social determinants of health (SDoH), for payers, clinicians, public health agencies, pharma companies, and other researchers. Are there disparities in program participation or health outcomes?

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. Illinois-based Primary Care Joliet implemented eClinicalWorks EHR and healow.

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Weekly Roundup – May 20, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Colin Hung spoke to Marcus Perez at Altera Digital Health about helping providers solve cash flow and throughput challenges today while planning for care-at-home and other initiatives to support future business growth.

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Security of #FHIR implementations concerns

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The point we should take from this research is that EHRs are doing a good job of securing their FHIR implementations FHIR is good and worthy There is room for improvement in some implementations There are included recommended improvements. FHIR is good, the EHRs are good, many apps and services are good. NO WAY!!???

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems.

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GIS Data Sharing – A Model for Healthcare Data Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

They share their data using open standards and common platforms because they share a common goal – to make the world a better place. Healthcare Data Interoperability. Data in healthcare is siloed. At a macro-level, the lack of interoperability hampers community health efforts. Sharing GIS Data For the Good of All.

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Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Diana Zuskov, MPH, Associate Vice President of Healthcare Strategy at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. Prioritizing data that has been purpose-built and clinically validated ensures that we’re tracking data that truly predicts and impacts health outcomes, not just correlation.