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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

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. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data. Miller, Jr.

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7 Telehealth Terms You Need to Know

BHM Healthcare Solutions

And often considered an important part of health IT initiatives and clinical care services. mHealth is term used to describe the use of wireless and mobile devices to generate, aggregate and disseminate health information. Interoperability. Interoperability is NOT the same thing as health information exchange.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Relevant clinical patient management data workflow was not a priority and remains a major pain point for clinicians today. the regulatory and billing data entry should be performed by someone else and relegated to an (almost) invisible part of the EHR. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

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A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare

Health Blawg

We are awash in data. But we can’t access data when and where we need it. Apple recently announced its foray into the personal health record market. Data flow is unidirectional (provider to patient only). It was the worst of times. We are awash in dollars. But untold billions are lost to waste, fraud and abuse.

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The new Digital Health model : Disruption, Engagement, Integration and Trust

Lloyd Price

Traditional digital health models Most developed countries have moved away from paper-based healthcare solutions and have adopted or are in the process of adopting ‘traditional’ digital healthcare models (see Figure 4). But integration and interoperability challenges of existing traditional models will make this progress slower.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the month of July, we'll speak to experts about how they're managing their workforces – not just clinicians, but IT departments, data scientists, care managers, back office staff and others. Connectivity that enables clinicians, researchers, executives to put that data to work. The new frontier? Collection. Collection.

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