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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

News The Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative , which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizations. Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. The 21st Century Cures Act will make digital health data even more accessible with the call for open APIs.

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The Top Telehealth Terms to Know

American Well

Apple Health: Apple Health, or Apple HealthKit, is a preinstalled app on Apple Watch and all iOS8 devices that contains an easy-to-read dashboard for a person’s fitness and health data. EHRs: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) go one step beyond EMRs by tracking clinical data from multiple facilities and agencies.

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The Top Telehealth Terms to Know

American Well

Apple Health: Apple Health, or Apple HealthKit, is a preinstalled app on Apple Watch and all iOS8 devices that contains an easy-to-read dashboard for a person’s fitness and health data. EHRs: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) go one step beyond EMRs by tracking clinical data from multiple facilities and agencies.

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The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian , SVP Product Management at Reltio When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts. This data segmentation hampers the holistic understanding of patient health and impedes timely and coordinated care delivery.

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How one provider is transitioning from WebEx and Skype to a full telehealth platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this year temporarily lifted restrictions on the technology that could be used during the pandemic. As time progressed, our doctors from UC Health also began using a third solution, Doximity, to deliver virtual visits.” So there were many options to choose from.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

So let’s take inventory: software for medical research, new sensor technology that provides activity data and remote diagnostics, health records, medical clinics and a powerful soft asset – consumer trust. This year there was job posting for a HIPAA compliance lead for the Alexa team.