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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

’ ” An application Programing Interface is a set of protocols and definitions allowing digital services and products to communicate with each other over the Internet. The test was conducted over two weeks with six months of static code analysis. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’

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Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

Health Populi

The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The use cases for health care must wrestle with HIPAA and other privacy laws that may be relevant for a particular medical situation or patient population.

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GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s. GNC has been partnering with PursueCare for their telehealth provider network. Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99

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M&A notebook: Providers and platforms make big moves

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In New Jersey, meanwhile, Cooper University Health Care and Cape Regional Health System have also recently signed a definitive agreement to merge resources. Verisma HITRUST certified technology integrates with existing electronic health records and ScanSTAT offers HIPAA-compliant partnerships with many EHR systems.

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?Utilizing Technology to Expand Language Access

Healthcare IT Today

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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How to Improve Patient Satisfaction in Virtual Care

Mend

The idea of patient satisfaction is relative to each individual. But here at Mend, we have our own definition. We define patient satisfaction as the measure of how well a patient perceives the level of care they receive from you. There is a debate about the connection between the patient experience and health outcomes.

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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.”