Health Data, Health Policy and Meeting

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

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

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

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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What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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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

APRIL 16, 2024

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Trust lies closer to home, with the people I know, and my employer.

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I have the opportunity, for which I’m so grateful, of not only attending this meeting but playing a role as a speaker, a sometimes stage “emcee,” and a keynote speaker. That, too, was a prime Dr. Topol moment, wearing his health policy hat: his belief that the U.S.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers.

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The last chapter of my book, HealthConsuming, addresses the question of whether Americans can morph from health consumers to “health citizens.” Today, I’m speaking on that very topic at the Microsoft Envision Forum Healthcare meeting addressing stakeholders representing the many touchpoints in the U.S. health care system.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I’m also especially keen, from the patient privacy perspective, to hear my close colleagues Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis explain the “Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

There are green shoots in healthcare communities demonstrating that adopting a variety of digital health tools can boost economies. Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. Wegman was CEO and advocated for the statewide health information network.

Digital Health

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens. Marc Ferrara, CEO Information Services with Jobson, introduced the meeting with some context. The elephant in the room all day, I felt and said, was privacy — or lack thereof.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

.” This topic set the context for my conversation with Maneesh Juneja, digital health futurist and global speaker on health, technology and people. On his way walking to meet me, he shared the above image from his Apple iPhone sent to him through the Hugging Faces chatbot, texted via our WhatsApp connection.

Public Health

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Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over

Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Those in complete isolation actually came to look forward to Zoom meetings and telemedicine appointments. My colleagues with children or dependents were stretched to the points of breaking, but most have made it to the other side.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Financial health will continue to blur into physical and emotional well-being in 2023. More families face difficulty paying all of their, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrote in their December 2022 look into Making Ends Meet in 2022. This program will be implemented starting on January 1, 2023.

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

ReMedi’s approach to chart abstraction is to first train our clinical data team. They learn to perform a step-by-step process that considers all the important elements from previous records to ensure patient safety and meet organizational needs. Overall, we’re optimistic about the future of health data.

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

Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

Bill and I are doing all of our meetings via video teleconference. 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? But yes, life has changed drastically.

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

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. Justice Department.

Digital Health

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

The point is we have to be intentional about meeting people where they are. Aaron Brandwein, Chief Revenue Officer at Net Health The Population Health Institute found that social determinants of health (SDoH) account for more than 70% of health outcomes. And digital tools can play a critical role.

Primary Care

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A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s another facet of this history that resonates with health data rights and equity. His latest project, Own Your Health Data.Org, looks toward “a future we can trust,” which supports our personal health engagement and effective self-care. As Juhan told me, And when we own our health data, … the kicker is….

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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

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What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

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

The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

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

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

A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

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

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

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

A Nutrition Label for Health IT

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