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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived

Health Populi

This compromised health data privacy scenario comes out of research published this month in the BMJ , Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis. Our digital life- and health-styles require that level of personal data ownership, control, and stewardship.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

It has also recently been found that language barriers have contributed to poor health outcomes, making the case for linguistically tailored services and community-health workers who are based in peoples’ neighborhoods.

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

Health Populi

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, computers could take active medication data, reconcile it, place it in chronological order, remove duplicates, clean up and present it to the clinical staff for review. Overall, we’re optimistic about the future of health data.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

One example that holds immense potential to advance health equity is the utility of remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions – which entails the use of technology to remotely collect and transmit physiologic and nonphysiologic health data from patients to healthcare providers, in between in-person care.