Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While FHIR has made significant headway in creating common protocols and standards for data exchange, there is opportunity to create greater data fluidity among all healthcare stakeholders. These technologies make the data immutable, eliminating the need for third-party validation. These are just two of the many use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

Getting More From Health Data – Clinical Architecture It wasn’t that long ago that we were lamenting that we did not have enough electronic data in healthcare. Before we can leverage that data, it needs to be of sufficient quality to be useful. Now we are drowning in it.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more.

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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. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2022

For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data. It’s easy to say that patients should have access to their data. ONC and other legislation have made it clear that patients have a right to their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A team of women coders caught attention at DEF CON on June 26 with a secure reproductive health tracking app (Figure 1) that lets a menstruating person exchange data securely with health staff. The reproductive health app itself, SecureCycle , is not yet ready for use. There are many standards for secure data exchange.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. Scott Stuewe, President & CEO, DirectTrust.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. Because of the time required to process SDoH, Eye says, institutions need to prioritize which patients to contact.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. Scott Stuewe, President & CEO, DirectTrust.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We recently had a chance to sit down with Jessica Beegle, Senior Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at  Lifepoint Health , who shared with us that her past experience has given her a unique view in crafting the patient experience. This would help to create the type of care experience patients now expect.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) , a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap , one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results , co-Founder of Unblock Health , and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Turbocharging, really inspiring that bold statement is the love of a son for his parents coupled with tech-innovation chops that could, indeed, eventually bring that audacious claim of being health care’s OS to fruition.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2021

The following is a guest article by Dr. Mike Petersen, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer, NTT DATA Services. Recently, at the Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the company announced a series of features and updates focused on personal health and wellness including the new Apple iOS 15 new health data sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data. This is one area where CX can come in.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

As health clinics, dentists, and specialists gradually reopen during what we hope is a reprieve from the first COVID-19 wave, lapses in effective data sharing come into glaring view. For instance, some friends told me that when they arrived at a clinic, the receptionist handed them paper forms and pens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

At this point, it's not a surprise to say that data is power – particularly when it comes to advancing clinical research, furthering innovation and improving patient care. Tools such as wearables can provide a holistic view of a patient's care journey beyond information gathered in a clinical visit.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“The security of online data is the top consideration for consumers across many forms of online activities including email, search, social media, banking, shopping and dating”… and using health apps. Those privacy nuances and concerns vary by activity, shown in the first chart here from the study.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NexTech Solutions and Smart Meter have joined forces to expand the delivery of real-time health data empowering physicians to better care for the warriors and their dependents of the United States. TAMPA, Fla.–(BUSINESS

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

That speaks to Steve’s phrase, “ecosystem of ecosystems,” because that’s not just “digital” health — that’s now the true nature of health/care, and what is driving connectivity toward interoperability, cloud computing, and the adoption of APIs to enable health data liquidity.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

Collecting and managing data has become vital in healthcare. Doing this right, leads to many downstream benefits, including better patient outcomes, greater patient engagement, more efficient processes, happier staff, and improved payer + provider alignment.

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Waracle

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Join the conversation, sign up now for our next event in January – The Patient Experience – Empowering Patients. Optimising the patient experience is a tangible route to competitive advantage for any organisation invested in human health and wellbeing. Check out the entire event below. Prescription Tech.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Furthermore, nearly one-half of people with a mental health condition also delayed care more than people who did not report mental health issues. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In recent times, Apple has been making a number of public moves focused on getting its customers to pull their health data onto their iPhone. Using Apple’s Health app, consumers can have their health data downloaded automatically from any institution with which it has partnered.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

One very important finding in this study is that access to one’s health data demonstrates consumers are more collaborative with their clinicians — and are more open to sharing their data. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If you were involved with writing a business plan from the earliest days of digital health (in the so-called “Health 1.0 or Health 2.0”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

But see that health care services and technology, while a tiny segment today, will be fast-growing going forward — and a key enabler for transforming health care. What fuels that transformation is data and the insights the right data can generate. Swiss Re, as a re-insurer, is in the business of managing risk.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

As part of these discussions, WEF published a report on Patient-first health with generative AI with the subtitle, “reshaping the care experience.” and, TruBridge, which partners with providers to connect patients (and their data) in rural areas with the health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Humana has cut a deal with a vendor allowing members to share data from a very wide range of devices and apps with its wellness division. Working with personal health data platform Validic, Humana will allow members to connect […]. Here’s a deal that could have a greater impact than it might appear upon first glance.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

.” Samsung Health users who opt into this program could track their health data, receive reminders for tests and prompts from physicians, and perform other self-care tasks. Samsung Health already works with Walgreens, ThedaCare, Lee health, and Rise Health whose data could be accessed by patients using their services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

health citizens’ minds, making people more aware of the value of their health data, privacy and security aspects. “Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Elaborate’s technology offers doctors a way to contextualize health data and deliver clear, action-oriented communications to their patients Elaborate , the tool that doctors and their staff use to deliver contextualized, action-oriented lab results to patients, announced today it has raised $10 million in Seed funding.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. Ascension is the second largest health system in the U.S., The media coverage of hospitals suing patients for late payments?

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