Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless. Less fragmented health data. We hope you’ll enjoy a nice break this Valentine’s day. What does that mean for patients?

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MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

“We need to demand our health citizenship. That means our nation must approach medical treatment and data privacy as civil rights that protect everyone.” ” This is the start of my column, Americans, let’s claim our health care rights , published by USA Today today.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Riffing on his great book, Deep Medicine: How AI Can Humanize Health Care , Eric started his talk donning my own professional hat as a heath economist, sharing data about America’s high health care spending with low ROI yield. That, too, was a prime Dr. Topol moment, wearing his health policy hat: his belief that the U.S.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 13, 2019

“…the average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors” — McKinsey analysis. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog. It’s part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy?

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. .” Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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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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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 20, 2019

In the previous post of our series we described the “ Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”. Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? Read the full post on The Health Care Blog.

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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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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

The basics: Store-and-forward vs. real-time technology The major way in which capture, store, and forward technologies differ from their real-time counterparts is that they don’t involve live interactions with patient data as it is being collected.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Niall Brennan, Chief Analytics and Privacy Officer at Clarify Health and Leader of the Clarify Health Institute , says that payer and provider data quality must be improved. This means normalizing the data and filling in the gaps that currently exist (ie: where data is not available or not reported).

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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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JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? First, consider the stark data point(s), and then we can better respond to the question’s answer in the Hot Points , below.

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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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E-CareManagement

JULY 29, 2019

She was a wise girl who was aware that there was great value in health data. Goldilocks learned that there are risks of TOO LITTLE health data being shared: That she and her care providers would not have the best information for clinical decision making. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S. It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Informatics is revolutionizing healthcare through the power of information technology and data analysis to improve patient care, enhance operational efficiency, and drive innovation. 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

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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OCTOBER 15, 2018

In summary, three over-arching issues come out of the paper: ensuring health citizens’ secure access to their health data within nations and across EU borders; enabling personalized medicine through the shared European data infrastructure; and, assuring citizen empowerment with digital tools for feedback and person-centered care.

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E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules were designed to support information flows within the health care system and allow for broad uses and disclosures of data by both covered entities and business associates without the need to obtain patient consent.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

"Health has not coherently evaluated the effectiveness of telehealth as a pandemic response, although some analysis of billing data and independent research has been undertaken," the report said. It will be done by the MBS Review Advisory Committee, which shall report back to the government later this year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

Note that these data go to 2021, so do not include the life expectancy data for young Americans from 2022 or first quarter of 2023. ” This came to front of mind now as I wrestle and think about the data from the CDC, OECD, and the JAMA viewpoint on “losing our most cherished population:” our children.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 29, 2014

As a member of the Editorial Board of Population Health News , I was asked to provide some personal perspectives for the October 2014 issue. Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, Chief Medical Officer, WellPoint, Indianapolis, IN. Principal, Sidorov Health Solutions; Chair, Board of. Jaan Sidorov, M.D.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

There’s a new data continuum with a shift in the relationship between the deliverers of services and their buyers. That data powers new relationships and programs, Marc explained. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

Introduction: The immediate impact of COVID-19 on morbidity and mortality has raised the need for accurate and real time data monitoring and communication. The aim of this study is to document initial observations from multiple digital services providers during the COVID-19 crisis, especially those related to mental health and wellbeing.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

Misuse of personal data is the top driver of distrust in the tech industry around the world, among 64% of global citizens. ” Businesses should be transparent and open and avoid misusing personal data to engender trust; to nurture workers’ digital skills; and, to promote good use of digital tech in society-at-large.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The study revealed five themes that underpinned health equity across the four nations studied: Discrimination Broken trust and not feeling safe On the upside, community engagement opportunities Digital divides, and, A lack of emotional intelligence and connection felt by many health citizens. health citizens.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Greenway Health , a leading ambulatory EHR provider, has added new features to accommodate this non-medical information and make recommendations based on that data. Public health policies. Occupation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This most recent effort has brought together a wide range of healthcare representatives, including: Adventist Health Policy Association. Data continues to emerge about telehealth utilization rates amidst COVID-19. Department of Health and Human Services found a 63-fold jump in Medicare telehealth use during the pandemic.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

In kicking off #CES2024, CTA’s researchers noted the acceleration of global connectivity, with gaps in peoples’ ability to connect depending where they live: by region, the percent of people connected to the internet today are, according to CTA’s data, 92% in the U.S. 87% in the E.U. The pandemic made it all the more obvious to most people.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3. One of the most significant trends in healthcare is that patients are increasingly willing to share their health data if in return they see a benefit to themselves and to the community 6.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Trust, or really lack thereof, is a killer app for people’s coronavirus health outcomes. That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19.

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