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What’s a Problem, Technology, Opportunity, or Issue That Not Enough People are Talking About?

Healthcare IT Today

I think that we saw a lot of movement during COVID, we saw a lot of commercial insurers actually move toward covering more telehealth services, and we saw Medicare increase coverage for telehealth services, but we need more.

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New Blockchain ledger will let US residents sell personal Healthcare data

Lloyd Price

IBM and a start-up have launched a blockchain-based app that lets patients eventually sell anonymized data to pharmaceutical companies, researchers and others while retaining greater control over privacy. Karlin is formerly the head of clinical, informatics and regulatory strategy at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Hu-manity.co

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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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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

This supports the provision of timely and seamless portability of information and optimizes the health of individuals and populations globally. Health Informatics Trend #3: Health Data Analytics. To address this, we have added a course on Introduction to Health Data Analytics.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

So let’s take inventory: software for medical research, new sensor technology that provides activity data and remote diagnostics, health records, medical clinics and a powerful soft asset – consumer trust. If information is power and the future of medicine is personal, ubiquitous and mobile, Apple should have a front row seat.

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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

care innovations

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Read more here.

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How one provider is transitioning from WebEx and Skype to a full telehealth platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this year temporarily lifted restrictions on the technology that could be used during the pandemic. ” The second solution underway is a combination of health data exchange technologies from Carequality, including CareConnect. So there were many options to choose from.