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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

One example that holds immense potential to advance health equity is the utility of remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions – which entails the use of technology to remotely collect and transmit physiologic and nonphysiologic health data from patients to healthcare providers, in between in-person care.

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Melinda Gates: This is not a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Henry Kotula

You would have fought through the civil-liberties issues of people sharing their health information willingly or not willingly. Am I willing to share my health data so that you know if I got it? Preparing for the next epidemic is a whole different conversation. You’d have tests available from the get-go.