Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Only one-third of Americans would be willing to share their temperature, 29% their location, and one-fourth information about their chronic conditions. In the COVID-19 era, most U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The top-demanded health consumer digital health applications included, The ability to find doctors and make appointments online, for 51% of people. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%. Finally, 33% of Americans are comfortable (net) sharing their health information with tech companies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2019

But more people are taking care into their own hands, and welcome a growing role for technology to play in enabling self-care, supporting prevention, and improving treatment of diagnosed conditions, according to The Future of Connected Health , a consumer survey from ResMed. Making health care costs transparent.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been a lot of activity and news coverage of Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, recently. The Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, are the actual networks that are Qualified to operate under the rules of TEFCA and move health information between exchange participants.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Why would a grocer lobby for such a project?

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

We who work in healthcare must pose the questions: going forward, how trusting will patients, consumers and caregivers be sharing their personal health information (PHI)? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: There’s a new social determinant of health in town, and it’s broadband connectivity. The lack of broadband to rural health citizens exacerbates disparities by preventing people from digital engagement in their health and caring for loved ones.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 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. Consumer care coordination company Quantum Health was certified as a Great Place to Work.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A new study from Weber Shandwick and KRC asked a question that speaks to consumers’ trust and willingness to engage with different sources of health information. In the meantime, Deloitte reminds us that the smartphone is most peoples’ personal health platform.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Most physicians entered the profession, Medscape found , to form such relationships.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

We can’t be all that sanguine about “data as the new oil” for improving health care: privacy and security concerns loom large in the post-Facebook/Cambridge Analytica era, along with perennial cyber-breaches of patients’ personal health information.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

patients’ electronic health records lack the level of interoperability that the COVID-19 pandemic could have better leveraged. Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S. That’s a big if: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

These benefits can’t be realized in healthcare without the enterprise health cloud ensuring privacy and security. Mobile apps do pose challenges for protecting digitized personal health information (PHI). pioneer , that #LoveIsTheKillerApp.

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Mobile Health Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They frequently move, and with the option to work on the go, it will be critical for health systems to mobilize patient data with the individual. While health IT will help care for mobile patients, ensuring the technology is secure must also be the top priority. Meeting Mobile Health Challenges.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS. Michael Hodgkins, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Information Officer, American Medical Association. . • Nancy Beavin, Director, Program Delivery, Humana Inc. Dave Cassel, Executive Director, Carequality. Katie Crenshaw, MPA, Senior Manager, Informatics, HIMSS. Steven R. .

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the case of patient data collaborations between Big (or small) Tech and health care providers, keeping the patients’ best interests central — transparent, on an opt-in basis, with the consumer-health citizen in control of her/his personal health information — should be a central tenet of these deals.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

That’s why 73% of health executives told Accenture they plan to develop internal ethical standards related to the use of AI to bolster responsible use of patients’ personal health information. Together, these three concepts blur lines across physical and simulated, immersive worlds.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

I leave you with one proviso which could be a barrier to patients engaging with digitized health information: in the wake of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, there is a wake-up call for consumers to become more mindful about the security of their personal data online.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2018

That’s why 73% of health executives told Accenture they plan to develop internal ethical standards related to the use of AI to bolster responsible use of patients’ personal health information. Extended reality here blurs the lines between physical and virtual, immersive environments.

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Chilmark Research

APRIL 3, 2013

As we’ve reported in a previous post , HIMSS13 afforded enormous buzz and less enlightenment regarding the state of health IT, particularly the four key areas we see as essential to this industry making a true difference in patient care. The March Toward Better Patient Engagement. Naveen Rao.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. So what are patients most keen to access online in their medical records or portal?

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

That session will feature CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and new national health IT coordinator Karen DeSalvo, M.D. We also discussed other aspects of healthcare reform, trends in health IT and expectations for HIMSS14. 22:42 What healthcare.gov struggles might mean for health IT. For easy reference, here’s the link.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Health and our health information are deeply personal. Changing health care and inspiring positive health behaviors is hard to do.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In health care, we have a plethora of standards for linking health information from disparate data sets. The bar chart arrays OECD’s assessment of interoperability gauged in 2022, with Denmark, Korea, Sweden, Finland, and Latvia in the top 5 for data linking; and, Ireland, the U.S., and Germany ranking in the bottom three.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

It is worth reviewing the Appendices of this report, which detail company-specific use of datasets and estimates of the market value for using that information by company. Some of the names mentioned are Allscripts, athenahealth, Alibaba Health Information Technology Ltd., in the post Facebook/Cambridge Analytica era.

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