Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

.” Risks can be subtle: For instance, although Apple Watch is fairly trustworthy on its own , breaches can open whenever you try to transfer your data to another service. The app is not practical at this point because it stores data on a server, but no one has set up a server for the data yet. Control and consent.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share. The AI actively guides conversations, ensuring compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Results from a new healthcare industry survey suggest that while payers and providers are somewhat at odds when it comes to data management, their strategies still have much in common. The survey in question was sponsored by Change Healthcare and the HealthCare Executive Group conducted by InsightDynamo.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In summary, three over-arching issues come out of the paper: ensuring health citizens’ secure access to their health data within nations and across EU borders; enabling personalized medicine through the shared European data infrastructure; and, assuring citizen empowerment with digital tools for feedback and person-centered care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? Three-fourths of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If you were involved with writing a business plan from the earliest days of digital health (in the so-called “Health 1.0 or Health 2.0” This last chapter (#11) is titled “Get Started,” addressing both end-of-life care as well as everyday family health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2023

Interestingly, Harp also plotted the major Health IT milestones on his chart like – MIPPA, MIPS, MACRA, and CURES. You could say that the concern around data seems to be growing as the need for quality data rises through regulations. From 1999 to 2022, however, Harp found a steady rise in the use of the term in publications.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2019

A new survey has drawn conclusions that, while infuriating, probably won’t surprise anyone working in the U.S. The survey, which reached out to primary care physicians around the world, found that despite having powerful health IT tools at the ready, U.S.-based healthcare system today.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We know web-search for health information — seeking advice on symptoms, prescription drugs, or diagnoses — has been a mainstream behavior for most consumers for several years. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Consumers getting more “angsty” about privacy, and this extends to health data.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Health care system financing, delivery, and workflows widely vary across nations around the world. One very important finding in this study is that access to one’s health data demonstrates consumers are more collaborative with their clinicians — and are more open to sharing their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. The variety of organizations that provide data (clinical settings, labs, community-based organizations, etc.)

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In a recent survey, Surescripts found growing support for pharmacists to prescribe a select number of medications to patients, thus easing the workload on physicians. Surescripts recently released the results of a survey which showed a growing need and support for pharmacists to provide more care services to patients.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Confidence in remote care technology is gaining traction in the United States, with a survey finding 56 percent of Americans currently monitor their health with at least one digital data collection tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Only 4% of health care payments in the U.S. “The end of pure FFS is near,” according to The State and Science of Value-Based Care , a report-out of survey research from Innovaccer and Morning Consult. are pure fee-for-service (FFS) these days.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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JULY 27, 2022

Supporting the medical community for research and innovation, physician-patient relationships, and bolstering public health. Central to Apple’s health support for consumers is putting “health data in one place,” a goal on which the Apple Watch and the Health app have been built.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Healthcare organizations are only using 57% of their data to drive decision-making , according to a survey from Arcadia. Only 45% of consumers are fully satisfied with their health insurance , according to a survey from HealthEdge, and 40% blame insurers for the high cost of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The release of final rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT regarding the 21st Century Cures Act have shined a renewed spotlight on patients' ability to take control of their own health data. Payment, too, will be a major driver of digital health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In any case, health systems will need to work to improve access to care – and can do so by offering integrated, personalized options. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

But in the past year, the percentage of people using Facebook and its corporate sister YouTube has flattened, based on the survey report, Social Media Use in 2018 from the Pew Research Center. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Health is social: isolation is a social determinant for ill health. The Pew team researched U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Read more… How Will Data Utilities Evolve ? Experts agreed that health data utilities are in their early stages but will start to see additional value when they engage with government agencies in their communities and enable data sharing across state lines. Read more… Acting on SDoH Analysis.

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Redox

MARCH 15, 2024

The clincher: Just because the data is available to use doesn’t mean health systems are fully using that data—or capitalizing on the full capabilities of the analytics solutions they’ve deployed. Poor CDS EHR Integration Negatively Impacts Patient Care, Survey Finds.” EHR Intelligence. The Journal of mHealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

HIMSS has released its 2022 Future of Healthcare Report , and survey results suggest that payers and providers look at big technology companies differently. A survey of 5,000 clinicians conducted by experience management firm Qualtrics concluded that only half of nurses and physicians believe in the future of their organizations.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Allocating a full day of HIMSS programming to this topic, talking beyond the claim or EHR, is a sign that the pharmacy and prescription drugs are recognized as a strategically important player in the health data ecosystem. Increasingly, prescriptions are digitally-initiated via ePrescribing platforms.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A DrFirst survey of more than 1,000 Americans concluded that one-third of Americans have taken anti-anxiety medications to manage family stress during the holiday season. Politics, family drama, and love life are the topics of conversation that are most likely to increase anxiety, the survey said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

The FCC is updating its Mapping Broadband Health in America platform to incorporate maternal health data , with the aim of identifying whether Internet connectivity is tied to disparities in maternal health outcomes and determining where interventions could have the greatest impact.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

When it comes to sharing data, patients are most comfortable doing it for reasons related to treatment (71%) as compared to payment (39%), operations (28%), or public health (23%). Among organizations surveyed, 64% rely on external expertise for project planning and 71% do so for production.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

Here are how these five mega-trends can bolster our health and healthcare products and services over the next decade. Innovations like the Veteran’s Administration’s Blue Button initiative and Humetrix’s fantastic work on helping make health data more liquid are addressing this trend.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

News and Research More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Inbox Health data, 96 percent to 99 percent of patients choose to continue receiving their bills and make payments digitally. According to one survey on healthcare payment plans, 90.7 Practices and billing teams have the ability to set the terms (e.g., Offer payment plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more. While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Nearly two-thirds of physicians surveyed (65%) said they are experiencing burnout, and 35% said their level of burnout has “significantly increased” in 2022. Researchers at MIT have found that de-identified patient data runs an extremely low risk of being re-identified in the event of a data breach.

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