Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2021

COVID-19 reshaped people around the world, one-half of whom are re-defining their personal purpose and life-goals. This sense of purpose extends to peoples’ willingness to buy or patronize companies who do not meet their needs for health, safety, sustainability and trust. For example, two in three of these people would switch travel brands if they felt health and safety weren’t up to par, discovered in Life Reimagined – Mapping the motivations that matter for today’s cons

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 27, 2021

Biden administration 'absolutely supportive' of efforts to expand virtual care, HHS official says. hlandi. Sun, 06/27/2021 - 14:36.

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Click here for more info. Use discount code 68 to receive $100 off. Hope to see you there! Vince. The post The Second Annual Healthcare Blockchain Summit, Boston, June 11-12 appeared first on e-CareManagement blog.

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In the video below, Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Yale University School of Medicine capsulizes the rationale of hoarding as business strategy: We encourage you to take a minute to listen to Dr. Krumholz, but if you’re in a hurry we’ve abstracted the most relevant portions of his comments: “The leader of a very major healthcare system said this to me confidentially on the phone… ‘why would we want to make it easy for people to get their health data…we want to keep the patients with us so why wouldn’t w

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Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

Why Healthcare Needs the Internet of Things. Guest Post by Abbas Dhilawala , Chief Technology Officer, Galen Data . The IoT consists of smart objects or devices with cloud connectivity capabilities — devices that can perform a function, collect data and transmit that data to a network where it can be used by humans to accomplish a goal. IoT devices are appearing everywhere in society, from the industrial supply chain to automated cars, but one of the most important applications for the I

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by Vince Kuraitis and Deven McGraw. Two years ago we wouldn’t have believed it — the U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019. There is some bipartisan support and a strong possibility that legislation will be passed. Two recent articles in The Washington Post and AP News will help you get up to speed. Federal privacy legislation would have a huge impact on all healthcare stakeholders, including patients.

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Once upon a time, there lived a little girl whose name was Goldilocks. She was a wise girl who was aware that there was great value in health data. One day she decided to go for a walk in the forest of the U.S. healthcare system. 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.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

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? Privacy? Both?” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. In summary: HIPAA’s rules were not designed to address privacy risks introduced by widespread personal information collection and use in the modern digital ecosystem.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

By Thomas Wilson PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported on the results of a “hotspotting” program created by the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers (Camden Coalition). Hotspotting targets interventions at all or a subset of healthcare superutilizers – the 5% of patients that account for 50% of annual healthcare spending.

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Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. • Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics mana

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

Day-by-day, the business case for data sharing is growing stronger. In this essay, I’ll describe how COVID-19 is accelerating existing healthcare trends, how data sharing is becoming a key business strategy, and how you can learn more about these developments. COVID-19 Accelerates Existing Trends. This might surprise you — one result of COVID-19 isn’t so much a new normal as it is the acceleration of pre-existing trends.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

by Leslie Kelly Hall and Vince Kuraitis. Looking in the rear view mirror, many healthcare providers have viewed patient data as “their asset”, something to be controlled–not shared. In a previous THCB article , we described 7 reasons why hoarding is a poor business strategy: Data Hoarding Doesn’t Work — It Doesn’t Lock-In Patients or Build Affinity Convenience is King in Patient Selection of Providers Loyalty is Declining, Shopping is Increasing Providers Have a Decreasingly Small “Share” of Pat

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

by Vince Kuraitis and Seth Joseph. Let’s start with a pop quiz. Take 15 seconds to look at the list below, asking yourself the question “What do all these have in common?” address books video cameras pagers wristwatches maps books travel games flashlights home telephones cash registers MP3 players Day timers. alarm clocks answering machines The Yellow Pages wallets keys transistor radios personal digital assistants dashboard navigation systems newspapers and magazines directory

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Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

If the taxi industry was so easily disrupted by platform businesses, could the healthcare industry be next? Are there characteristics these two industries share (or distinguish them from each other) that can help us understand the role platforms can play in healthcare? And why does it make sense to ask these questions now? Seth Joseph and I address these questions in our Forbes article “ Healthcare Delivery Disrupted: The Rise of Platforms in Healthcare “ The post Healthcare Delivery

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JUNE 27, 2021

by Vince Kuraitis, Edward G. Anderson, and Geoffrey Parker. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated calls for the development of EHR 2.0 (electronic health record 2.0) – the next generation of EHRs with extended platform features and capabilities. Who will answer this call? While existing EHR vendors have made modest efforts, the door is open for big tech companies and start-ups to develop functionality to envelop and disintermediate current EHRs.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

You’ve probably heard of Bitcoin, but we doubt you’ve heard of Dentacoin, MedTokens, or Curecoin. These are healthcare specific cryptocurrencies born from Initial Coin Offerings or ICOs. Over on The Health Care Blog , my colleague Robert Miller and I have written an article analyzing financial returns of 138 healthcare ICOs. The results are enlightening, but disappointing.

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By DEVEN McGRAW and VINCE KURAITIS. This post is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?”. Read the full post on The Health Care Blog. A few excerpts: The buzz around federal privacy legislation continues, but as of yet there appear to be no proposals or bills that have emerged as the lead bills. . Despite the perceived lack of movement of current bills, the ticking clock on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests this issue is quite live in

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This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

“…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. The McKinsey “2,750 times” statistic is a pretty good proxy for the amount of your personal health data that is NOT protected by HIPAA and currently is broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

by Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis. 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? Congress is seriously considering bipartisan legislation — the “Protecting Personal Health Data Act” — to better protect the privacy of consumers’ personal data.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

By Vince Kuraitis, Eric Perakslis, and Deven McGraw. The latest in the series: “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?” The 10 unique challenges of COVID-19 contact tracing are: 1) COVID-19 is Highly Contagious and Deadly. 2) Contact Tracing is Becoming Politicized. 3) We Lack Scientific Understanding of COVID-19. 4) Presymptomatic Patients Can Spread COVID-19. 5) Asymptomatic Patients Can Spread COVID-19. 6) Contact Tracing is Dependent on Availability of Testin

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

by Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, Ph.D. We describe eight ways in which virtual care platforms (VCPs) are “potentially” competitive with local care providers: 1) Low Acuity/Episodic Care. 2) Virtual Primary Care. 3) Specialist Care. 4) Chronic Disease Management. 5) Second Opinions. 6) Specialized Populations/Conditions. 7) “Selling Ammunition to the Enemy” 8) Digital Front Door.

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Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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