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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.”. We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life).

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Emotional support is just as important as medical support, Accenture observed in the Health and Life Science Experiences study conducted in 2021.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

The addition of these determinants of health data has enriched the Well-Being Index and better inform our planning and strategies, whether for public policy or commercial health care products and services. Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

He continued his prescriptions for making health care more human, humane, and evidence-based with other bold ideas including getting rid of keyboards in the physician-patient encounter, ensuring patients own/control their personal health data, and increasing the time shared between doctors and patients during the encounter.

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

Healthcare IT Today

Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers. Non-health insurers and life sciences companies also recognize the value of clinical data and are requiring greater levels of access to power their applications and processes.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

Clearly, privacy of our health and other personal data must be weighed by consumers and their caregivers in balance with the convenience and utility that the growing health data ecosystem can provide well people, those managing chronic conditions, and very sick folks who could be aided with knowledge scraped together form other patients.