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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Turbocharging, really inspiring that bold statement is the love of a son for his parents coupled with tech-innovation chops that could, indeed, eventually bring that audacious claim of being health care’s OS to fruition.

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Cybersecurity frameworks in APAC don’t support remote care: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This is based on a new report by the Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed) and L.E.K. An interesting suggestion from the report is a policy ensuring assessment for each medical device for remote care is customised based on their risk level instead of applying a blanket assessment process.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. What do health trackers track, then? Samsung down 4 points.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

These technologies are emerging from both the medical-tech developers as well as consumer-grade and -facing companies: think HIMSS and RSNA vis-a-vis CES/the Consumer Technology Association. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding.

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Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read

Health Populi

Health citizens deserve Tom’s vision to emerge,” I wrote in a quote on the back of Tom’s new book, Hacking Health Care: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

But while the new ONC rules may make it easier for health consumers to access personal health information, the Field of Dreams phenomenon subverts the noble goal: we may “build” a system for people to access health data (like Blue Button), but patients may not “come.”

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

Health consumer, patient, and caregiver literacy for and acceptance of digital health work- and life-flows. Lack of data interoperability, and. Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection.