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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

Appropriately, privacy and security were hot topics at HIMSS Annual Conference this year, in respond to providers’ demands for more education and concerns around the challenges. And it’s in personal health information: a medical record is valued 8 to 10 times the price of a credit card on the black market.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” First, the law.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

Connected heart health is a big segment for digital health at CES, including blood pressure, The CES 2024 Innovation Awards have anointed several heart-health innovators before the conference, seven of which are shown here in the diagram titled “Heart Health” curated from company press releases in advance of the meeting.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues.

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

Healthcare IT Today

No doubt these are topics that we’ll be discussing at the MRO booth (#213) at the upcoming HFMA conference. Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. Therein lies the rub.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

Patrick Ndimubanzi, Honorable Minister of State, Public Health and Primary Health Care, Rwanda Digital Health Innovation in Rwanda Let's explore 5 examples of Digital Health innovation in Rwanda ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to blood delivery by drones and telemedicine.

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Brookings Institute : Who should profit from the sale of patient data?

Lloyd Price

Data buyers range from health policy researchers to pharmaceutical companies and marketing corporations. state either recognizes medical providers as the owners of medical data or do not have any laws to confer specific ownership or property right to medical records. DATA STEWARDSHIP, NOT OWNERSHIP With one exception, every U.S.