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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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Patient Portals and 'Answer Engines' to emerge as a powerful duo in HealthTech 2024?

Lloyd Price

Here's how: Answer Engines: Improved Patient Education: Imagine patients getting clear, concise answers to their health questions through an AI-powered interface that understands natural language. Generative AI: Personalised Health Information: Generative AI can personalise health information delivery.

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Cyber Security in Medical Devices – How Ensuring Patient Safety Remains a Priority

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

On the surface, the apparent lack of anonymity may be unnerving, but it comes nowhere close to the pervasiveness of medical software that collects the most private forms of information about one’s biology and health records. Additionally, significant amounts of private patient data were thought to be stolen during the “blackout”.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. Recent healthcare advancements in technology have presented credible and promising solutions to help address many of these barriers.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. platform – a very interesting story in its own right.

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#PatientsIncluded statement for SPM’s Second Annual Conference: #SPM2018

Society for Participatory Medicine

Patients and caregivers participate in delivery and are present in the audience. He is working to reduce the stigma associated with mental health by writing and speaking about living with his condition. Patients and caregivers are key parts of our faculty for the event. Doug Lindsay.