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American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies

Healthcare IT Today

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Of course, privacy and AI both make front-page news these days. Concerns over the data protection of individuals dates back to the 1970s.

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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

Streaming video fast-grew, with Disney+ hitting 50 million subscribers in five months (of course, it didn’t hurt that the program launched with Hamilton !). Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. Remote learning pivoted 250 million students to move to online learning over 2 weeks, and.

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AMA offers further guidance for telehealth rollouts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AMA notes that the telehealth playbook series can be used in conjunction with its guide for remote patient monitoring, as more and more providers get used to the idea of using devices, and sensors to capture and record patient generated health data. THE LARGER TREND. As the coronavirus crisis has unfolded across the U.S.,

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Why CTA’s Shepherding AI Is Important for Re-Imagining Healthcare

Health Populi

Some of the long list includes AT&T, AdvaMed, Amazon, and the ATA (formerly known as the American Telemedicine Association), Brookings, Doctor on Demand, Fitbit, Google, Humana, Mercedes, Microsoft, Philips, Validic and Verizon, among others. Humana — a health insurance company — joined the CTA last year. Health/care is everywhere.

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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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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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How remote patient monitoring is moving into the mainstream

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine is at the forefront of discussion around COVID and it was a great tool to deal with episodic care during the pandemic, reducing the number of patients frequenting providers. Adoption of telemedicine was fast, both from the clinical and patient sides. You're better able to manage treatment and adherence.