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Consumers May Not Be Well Informed About Uses Of Patient Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

Over the last several years, concern has grown among healthcare professionals over the ways patient data is being used, and just as importantly, how well patients understand what those uses are.

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

Health Populi

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. states since 2008.

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A National Study Utilizes Routine Health Data to Investigate Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases

Digital Health Global

The study, published in the Lancet Digital Health , highlights the importance of identifying and preventing transfusion-transmitted diseases to ensure the safety of blood transfusions. Methodology and Findings The study, conducted in Sweden, developed a systematic algorithm for a population-wide search for transfusion-transmitted diseases.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. believe that data privacy “is a thing of the past,” MITRE’s summary coined, with older people (Boomers and Seniors) most likely to feel that way. billion, the MITRE study is well-timed.

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The Value of Sharing Health Data Between Acute Care and Post-Acute Care

Healthcare IT Today

In this video, he and Chief Medical Officer, Hamad Husainy, DO, FACEP, parse the effects of new regulations at both federal and state levels, as well as the allure of value-based care. ” Watch the video for more on the potential for achieving ROI through digital sharing of health data.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Bringing Contextualized Health Data into the Diagnostic and Treatment Process

Healthcare IT Today

What’s changed is the explosion of data in healthcare and the availability of this data to clinicians as well as a whole host of healthcare professionals. Bringing context and meaning to this vast amount of data including unstructured health data is going to be key for every healthcare organization.