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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Fast forward” and Inovalon has de-identified data on 230 million patients – health plan data, plus EHR data, plus patient-reported data, plus socioeconomic data.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Fast forward” and Inovalon has de-identified data on 230 million patients – health plan data, plus EHR data, plus patient-reported data, plus socioeconomic data.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

These publications come as part of the FDA’s effort to improve its approach to digital health, to continue to work on drawing the line between digital health tools that are properly regulated as “devices” by the FDA and those that are not. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.

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

Lloyd Price

Open standards, open specifications, and open source tools are essential to facilitate frictionless data exchange. In the context of US healthcare, many health record systems have focused on consistent representation for a key set of data elements defined by the Meaningful Use Common Clinical Data Set.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

These publications come as part of the FDA’s effort to improve its approach to digital health, to continue to work on drawing the line between digital health tools that are properly regulated as “devices” by the FDA and those that are not. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.