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., Let’s talk about Technology and Trust. Out-of-network costs?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Topics expected to be covered include the Gulf Cooperation Counci’s (GCC) collaboration on CDC surveillance, as well as exploring how data has been used to improve disease mapping across the region. A programme such as EJADAH would have been challenging to implement without data, of course.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, technological advancements have brought about significant changes in the way patient information is managed and healthcare services are delivered. By having a centralized repository of patient data, healthcare professionals can make informed decisions and provide personalized treatment plans.

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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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Through the program, practices also will build skills to learn from their own data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past six months, as hospitals and health systems have pursued telemedicine and remote patient monitoring programs in earnest – whether launching new one or expanding existing ones – they've all had some learning curves and growing pains to manage. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Patients’ medical data constitute a cornerstone of the big data economy. A multi-billion dollar industry operates by collecting, merging, analyzing and packaging patient data and selling it to the highest bidder. Data buyers range from health policy researchers to pharmaceutical companies and marketing corporations.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

This innovator positions itself as “dataware for food managers” and offers several solutions — including helping clients manage diet and promote health eating, leveraging food raw data.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some of the key behaviors Deloitte gauged to measure health care consumerism were, Increasing use of technology and willingness to share personal health information. Interest in and use of virtual care/telehealth. Levels of self-efficacy and prevention. Use of tools for prescription drugs and self-care.

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E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? In summary: HIPAA’s rules were not designed to address privacy risks introduced by widespread personal information collection and use in the modern digital ecosystem. Read the full article in The Health Care Blog. Miller, Jr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The new RTM codes resemble those for remote physiological monitoring, which reimburses providers for the review of physiological data that is automatically transmitted from a device (for example, heart rate).

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

” The more beautifully-designed and digital health devices in a consumer’s Internet of Healthy Things at home can connect to a health care data ecosystem, the more virtual care can be delivered in that safer, hygienic, lower-cost setting: the patient’s own residence. That’s a big if: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

.” The OECD broadly defined the phrase in their 2017 paper on the topic as follows: Mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are among the most important technologies in the digital economy today. based on the data the Organization has collected.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A research paper in The Lancet Regional Health for the Americas , published in October 2021, provided evidence for this in their report, Barriers to Voting and Access to Health Insurance Among US Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Virtual cardiology care company Heartbeat Health is working with Caption Health , which applies AI to heart ultrasounds, to make scans and follow-up appointments available via telehealth. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

This investigation should be documented that confirms whether a breach occurred, the circumstances surrounding it, and the type of information that was disclosed Breach Notification. The type of unsecured protected health information (PHI) involved in the breach. This notification must be made without unreasonable delay.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Rural and urban dwellers, alike, often cannot afford data plans charged by Internet Service Providers. When people cannot buy data plans, they can’t access the online world to seek jobs, connect with others to alleviate social isolation, learn skills, or access health care or personal health information.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines synchronous telemedicine as "live video-conferencing," which is a "two-way audiovisual link between a patient and a care provider." What is Synchronous Telemedicine? " The U.S.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

Additionally, there is a focus on improving the work environment and well-being of health professionals to help reduce burnout and increase retention. To ensure quality care for patients, health systems are exploring new solutions and innovations, such as the use of digital health records and other health information technology.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Whether you’re interested in learning more about state-by-state policies, the latest on healthcare cybersecurity, or how to attain financial independence working in this alternate career path, these telemedicine newsletters can keep you wired in.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Collecting and analyzing data regarding quality and clinical outcomes as the result of changes in delivery of care from inpatient to outpatient is also key. These strategies should focus on optimizing economies of scale to reduce costs and finding the best partners to achieve improved quality of care and effectively manage population health.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. Mid-year Update: The latest report from Kaufman Hall offers data that shows a reversal in this trend for the first part of 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Preparedness Of Community Health Centers For Telehealth. Despite the changes, many health centers may not be ready to implement high-quality telehealth. A study using 2016 data showed that only 38 percent of CHCs used any telehealth. As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps through the US, health care delivery will never be the same.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Side Note: Be sure to check out Data’s Role in Health Equity and Technology and Health Equity as well) Kimberly Hartsfield, Executive Vice President of Growth Enablement at VisiQuate Shockingly, 58% of hospital bad debt comes from insured patients. The following is their ideas.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

To prepare for the second wave of coronavirus this fall, or even a next pandemic, we need mass testing from the get-go, voluntary data sharing from people so that we can trace who has been tested and where they have been, and vaccine stockpiles so that you can distribute those as soon as you see signs of an outbreak. Gates: High likelihood.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumers to Health Citizens , I conclude with a call-to-action and my own question: “What if…people in America were Health Citizens, where the government ensured health care as a social and civil right, health informed public policy, and people owned and controlled their heatlh data?

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Professor James Thomas of the University College London noted the Cochrane Crowd-sourced AI research enabled, “a virtuous circle whereby the AI makes the crowd more efficient, and then the crowd, by supplying more data, makes the AI more accurate.”. voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives.

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