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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.” The post A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

They provide remote healthcare providers with live access to the exam site, not just with video conferencing technologies but also via live streaming medical images, documents, and video. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations.

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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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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

But what’s been published online since hospitals began to post prices hasn’t been very helpful, as this story in Vox documents. He writes, “I couldn’t tell you what a “2-D ECHO TTE COMP NO CONTRST” is, and I’m guessing that most patients couldn’t either. That workers highly value their health benefits is no surprise.

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

Health Populi

And, according to the WSJ reporting, “Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.”

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Health Populi

This finding is a wake-up call, thanks to FAIR Health, illustrating the power of telehealth for mental health. I addressed this as an emerging opportunity in 2012 in The Online Couch , a report I wrote for the California Healthcare Foundation documenting the need and growing supply side for telemental health services.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The building blocks assume that patients and providers are on-site, together, at the same time. Everything needs to be reimagined for remote care, said Canino at Johns Hopkins Health Systems. The procurement and finance departments' workflows were particularly limited by the inadequacy of scanned document processing.

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