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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

Given the current Federal government negative or at best, null views on funding health care and expanding Medicaid, the opportunity for the private sector and non-profit organizations to fill that chasm is clear.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. An aging population exacerbates the cost problem, as cited by Tina Null, a nurse who is Chief Clinical Officer of Anelto. These codes were unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic, which had just begun to emerge.

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FHIR does not need a deidentify=true parameter

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Unless one comes up with a NULL-set, you are leaving RISK in the de-identified data-set. Where 'less' is specific to the request, authentication, etc. Where 'less' might be a de-identification algorithm, or might be to return '200 zero results found'.

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#FHIR JSON format questions

Health Intersections

Check out this worst case outcome: "name": { "family" : "du Marché", "_family": { "extension": [{ "url": "[link] "valueString": "VV" }, { "url": "[link] "valueCode": "ASKU" } ] }, "_given": [ null, { "id": "a3", "extension": [{ "url": "[link] "valueCode": "MID" }] }, null ], "given": [ "Bénédicte", "Denise", "Marie" ] }.

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Is it really possible to anonymize data?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

As a domain of 'risk' it can't achieve zero-risk, except to end up at the null-set. It is not, it is a Process used to lower 'risk' of re-identification. As a process it can be done badly. The standards in this space are clear about this risk factor. This oversimplification is just as alarmist.

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#FHIR and Bulk De-Identification

Healthcare Exchange Standards

unless you have eliminated all data (the null set). These examples show that each De-Identification algorithm is customized to enable a use-case needs, while limiting Privacy Risk. Lastly, Privacy Risk is never brought to zero. De-Identification as a Service What I propose is that a Service (http RESTful like) could be defined.

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War against TLS 1.0

Healthcare Exchange Standards

NULL, DES, MD5, etc) However some people are taking a policy decision that TLS 1.2 The result always seems to end up in no change of anyone position. There are a few agreed to points: SSL is fully forbidden. is best TLS 1.0 are not as good as 1.2 Bad crypto algorithms must not be used (e.g. is the ONLY protocol.