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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

It has also recently been found that language barriers have contributed to poor health outcomes, making the case for linguistically tailored services and community-health workers who are based in peoples’ neighborhoods. adults, the annual Gallup survey on honesty and ethics in professions perennially proves.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

23% know of TEFCA, but aren’t sure if they are going to participate, 25% were not aware of TEFCA and only 1% of those surveyed were aware of TEFCA and planned not to participate. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. Interoperability is not just a tech problem. The table is set.

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Hospitals Still Struggling To Share Data Effectively

Healthcare IT Today

A new survey suggests that despite spending countless dollars and people-hours on the problem, hospitals and health systems are still struggling with data sharing. Of course, this is an issue worth discussing at any point, but especially noteworthy given that new regulations from CMS and ONC are soon to take effect.

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3 Ways Remote Patient Monitoring Help Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Over the course of treatment, motivation to change may fluctuate, and the therapist must be aware of this. When patients realize that their health data is being sent directly to their clinician and that they will receive personalized communication based on their specific data, they become more involved and feel supported.

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Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

Leveraging health data, it engages patients in real-time, addressing issues that drive poor health and high utilization of health services. While it doesn’t capture the imagination like Generative AI, Adaptive AI delivers significant value, shifting focus from data to impactful health IT.

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Digital Health: The Future of Patient Experience | Event Recap

Waracle

Patients are now informed, empowered and encouraged to take their health into their own accord, while medics and clinicians enjoy more significant levels of accessibility, efficiency and accuracy. To investigate this further, we surveyed over 200 members of our online audience around their health technology experiences and opinions.