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Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." wellness" and more, said Gibbons — to say nothing of completely reshaping the patient experience.

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SPM’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rules

Society for Participatory Medicine

These regulations are a big deal for participatory medicine – they’re the successor to the Meaningful Use rules that have governed patient access to their chart, among other things. The regulations do this by altering how a hospital gets paid based on how well their data moves out of their computers.

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Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

For years, patient portals have been considered the most efficient tool for patient engagement. However, this titanic effort in patient portal development alone seems to be insufficient for portal adoption: the same poll reports that barely 30% of patients use these solutions, year after year. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

Open standards, open specifications, and open source tools are essential to facilitate frictionless data exchange. This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project.

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Don't miss the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit

Medicine and Technology

The Summit will feature: A summary of recent and upcoming policy and regulatory changes that are strengthening patients' rights and ability to access their health data electronically, including Meaningful Use and HITECH modifications to HIPAA.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.