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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

And most patients would also want access to information on their mental, behavioral, and substance use history. A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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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. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This gets to transparency, regarding how these companies communicate privacy policies to users; and, for health care, this speaks to patients’ concerns about their healthcare privacy. Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In 2019, few health care providers have adopted voice assistants into their workflows. The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

The study also looked into Americans’ views on data privacy for health information seeking. One-third of people were very concerned that a company would use search information to try and sell medical products based on the search parameters. The poll was conducted among 1,009 U.S. adults 18 and older via phone in July 2019.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

If you, as a behavioral health professional, violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you must follow certain obligations and procedures to rectify the situation. Below then, is a suggested list of steps for a practitioner who wonders, “What Happens if you violate HIPAA?”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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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

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

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). Most consumers deem healthcare providers to be good data stewards , researchers from frog, the designer consultancy, found.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But trust is a precursor to health engagement, so trust can be a barrier to patients and providers working together to improve healthcare. In addition to the EHR/screen-time challenge, there’s also a data/health information concern: patients expect health providers to be good data stewards, protecting personal health information.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.” We are beyond a crossroads now in U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2018

Healthcare is getting connected in the emerging Internet of Healthy Things, within the legacy healthcare system and at home via remote health monitoring, on our bodies via wearable tech, and on the move in our connected cars (see this post in Health Populi for more on the car as the third healthcare space).

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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

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Digital Health Summit at CES collaborated with Kantar on a poll gauging peoples’ perspectives on trust , technology and health. While most consumers say technology enables us to be connected with our health care, trust is a barrier to digital engagement. adults conducted in November 2019.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

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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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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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated in telehealth and are keen on closing telehealth gap. Prescribing.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 1, 2023

It facilitates the real-time collection, transmission, and evaluation of health information from any patient location to their healthcare provider. Takeaway With the rise of telehealth and connected health, the use of RPM is expected to continue to grow in the coming years.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Your role in this process is essential for the success of remote monitoring programs because patients need someone they can trust with their health data. Patients need an opportunity to feel comfortable enough with their provider so that they want to share their personal health information with them.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Your role in this process is essential for the success of remote monitoring programs because patients need someone they can trust with their health data. Patients need an opportunity to feel comfortable enough with their provider so that they want to share their personal health information with them.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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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., What’s not CGD are data covered by HIPAA.

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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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