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Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Still, experts say that network-wide availability of patient-generated health data is still lacking. Transitioning these forms from paper to electronic data capture did not change the base function in any significant way and continues to leave large amounts of potentially relevant information on the shelf. healthcare.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Digital Health Global

The app, which utilizes principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), empowers users to monitor their progress over time, providing motivation and craving management tools including guided breathing exercises, distraction techniques, and mindfulness practices. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the obvious solution to the issue.

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HIPAA Enforcement Discretion for HIPAA Business Associates to Share Health Data with Public Health Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Roger Severino, OCR Director, announced that OCR will exercise it’s enforcement discretion and not impose penalties for violations of certain HIPAA provisions. OCR (Office for Civil Rights) inside of HHS which is in charge of HIPAA enforcement has issued another notice of enforcement discretion.

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What #CES2019 5 Tech Trends to Watch Mean for Health/Care

Health Populi

I’ve had this discussion with various AI innovators and I can say this is coming to the N of 1 sooner rather than later for some lower-hanging fruit applications — like personalized nutrition plans based on our own genetic make-ups, or exercise routines that can help boost metabolism.

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Milliman IntelliScript Acquires OneRecord

Healthcare IT Today

The purchase of OneRecord positions Milliman IntelliScript to better serve clients who depend on the company’s delivery of digital health and consumer data to mitigate applicant risks, meet customer demand for a faster application process, and extend coverage to more people. More information is at milliman.com. About OneRecord, LLC.

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Apple to buy Oura after Amazon launches Halo and Google buys Fitbit?

Lloyd Price

But the device not only allows customers to track things like exercise and sleep, which are common in fitness wearables, but can also track emotional changes by listening to the wearer’s tone of voice and can present a 3D body image with a body fat percentage.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” looking far enough in the future from now to 2030, recognizing that we will have had two U.S.

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