Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. Are there disparities in program participation or health outcomes? These problems must be addressed outside the visit, in advance.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. The variety of organizations that provide data (clinical settings, labs, community-based organizations, etc.)

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 13, 2024

Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. Imagine an answer engine prompting a user to speak to their doctor if sleep tracker data suggests a pattern of worsening sleep quality. Subscribe Today! Subscribe Today!

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Prioritizing SDoH at the point of care can unintentionally reinforce our health equity blind spots. Without data on the full population, you could be missing the impact of SDoH on the most vulnerable, as shown by the example below on homelessness. Quality of data matters. What SDoH data do you have today?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Health Gorilla is devoted to deriving insights from a combination of traditional clinical data and SDoH. Specific needs assessment data which is typically provided by the patient. The goal of this partnership is to supplement longitudinal health assessments with “longitudinal social care.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Healthcare Data Interoperability. Data in healthcare is siloed. The Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) that have been deployed over the past 15 years do a good job at capturing health data but are terrible at sharing it. At a macro-level, the lack of interoperability hampers community health efforts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." You can really envision the delivery of automated services – public health services, social services – anywhere to the person in the community.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Does the Exchange Allow Participants Full Control Over Their Data?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds. Department of Defense is doing with its CMMC program that will require independent cybersecurity assessments of large and small defense contractors that work with sensitive information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. Some ready-made CSS tools that states will find useful include: . About Sonia Chambers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Improve health care for all New Yorkers, 2.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

New and niche, these applications decrease administrative burdens and reduce operational costs in departments such as health information, business office, and denial management. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today. Connections are built with health plans to receive requests electronically.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Healthcare Workforce. Telehealth and RPM. Elizabeth A.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. Increases in kept appointments are just one example. To explain why I’m devoting a special section of this article to behavioral health, I must digress into a discussion of health care costs. Improved workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

For example, 70% of hospitals and over half of ambulatory providers are connected to a national network. healthcare system by creating a universal floor of interoperability that connects providers, public health groups, and healthcare consumers. As data sharing improves, patients and providers will see numerous benefits.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. ” The U.S.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 8, 2019

Are views changing on our expensive system of providing healthcare services vs. funding social programs and public health projects that might reduce the need for them? Those are all things that are measurable and that health IT could take an active role in bringing forth. I’ll give you a vivid example.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

The other thing that I found intriguing was Ellison’s comments about who would benefit from this single database of all our health records. He gave the example of going to the ER and the ER doctor having access to your full records. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

The benefits of this can have a cascading impact, ultimately helping to ensure that more patients are willing to provide personal health data and engage with public health programs more of the time – leading to better health data acquisition, knowledge, and potentially better health outcomes.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

According to the HRSA , telehealth “is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care , patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration.”. Telemedicine. Store-and-forward (asynchronous). .”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A real-world example is pulse oximeters, which perform better on the skin of white people better than black people. Data collection, ensuring that the information fed into the AI represent the population for which the solution is designed – per Dr. Halamka’s Scandinavia/Spain example. You can then own your self-care.

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Waracle

MAY 16, 2019

Increased proliferation of mobile and web-based technologies such as wearables, smartphones and apps, are not only changing the way we interact and communicate, they’re actively transforming the way we track and monitor our health and well-being. Here are some examples of FDA approved mobile medical apps: ResolutionMD. Telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus.

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Waracle

MAY 16, 2019

Increased proliferation of mobile and web-based technologies such as wearables, smartphones and apps, are not only changing the way we interact and communicate, they’re actively transforming the way we track and monitor our health and well-being. Here are some examples of FDA approved mobile medical apps: ResolutionMD. Telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

Census is another example of how institutions, and public ones at that, can try to mis-use data or mis-appropriate data. For an in-depth look into this phenomenon, see my report, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Getting Tracked and Used, written for the California Healthcare Foundation.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Things to consider include educating patients on how their data is deidentified, stored, and used in building AI models. Patients would feel more at ease understanding the security of their data, plus understanding the value that their data plays in better patient care and treatment.

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