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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

“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. And, according to the WSJ reporting, “Neither patients nor doctors have been notified.

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. When done correctly, successful chart abstractions give clinicians a clean slate with accurate data for delivering top-quality care right away.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

Not only that, they directed the streams of data to researchers who were standing by, catching every drop, like phlebotomists filling vial after vial. This data would not go to waste and patients had a forum to act on their own desires to carefully document and share their experiences for the benefit of themselves and others.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Additional context here is that President Trump cut funding for navigators in federally facilitated marketplaces by over 80%, documented here in a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.