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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

Nearly one-half of consumers also said they’d be comfortable receiving health services from a technology company like Google or Microsoft. This is consistent with a previous survey by PwC’s firm Strategy& conducted several years ago which asked consumers what industries they would trust to help them manage their health.

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Bonus Features – January 28, 2024 – 49% of orgs likely to invest in RCM tech in the next 18 months, v2 drafts of TEFCA Common Agreement and QHIN Technical Framework out, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Nearly 4 in 10 (38%) Americans with chronic pain report feeling depressed, and 44% report feeling anxious , according to a Hinge Health survey. The Gemini Coder Platform and Gemini AutoCode solutions from Aidéo Technologies have been integrated with MedEvolve Effective Intelligence.

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Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Healthcare IT Today

You can also visit our HIMSS23 page to see all our coverage of health IT’s biggest event. Announcements from HIMSS Lack of staff is the top barrier to robust cybersecurity for 61% of healthcare organizations, according to the HIMSS 2022 Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey Report. Surescripts released research noting that half of U.S.

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Weekender 6/21/19

HIStalk Weekender

A group of health and technology organizations develops open source cancer data standards and specifications that can be incorporated into EHRs via FHIR. I’ve taught research methods (and survey research methods) at the University of Pennsylvania for over 30 years. It’s not a survey. EMR vendor ).

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

“A major challenge of mobile health is the high drop-off rate in sensor and app usage. 40 In one survey, more than half of users of activity trackers stopped using their device, and a third did so in the first 6 months. That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly.