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

Health Populi

The ethos of the name and the intent of this law is a perfect vision for considering what we hear and learn this week coming out of the 2023 HIMSS Annual Conference as the meeting kicks off today. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.” First, the law.

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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

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.”

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

Healthcare IT Today

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. But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

Connected heart health is a big segment for digital health at CES, including blood pressure, The CES 2024 Innovation Awards have anointed several heart-health innovators before the conference, seven of which are shown here in the diagram titled “Heart Health” curated from company press releases in advance of the meeting.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. These data will help practices pinpoint gaps in current processes that can be targeted for improvement and to assess the impact of any changes.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Zócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services

Healthcare IT Today

healthcare system lacks products and resources to meet this population’s unique cultural needs. We are transforming healthcare in this country, as we can no longer rely on a one-size-fits-all system filled with inequalities,” says Erik Cardenas, co-founder and CEO at Zócalo Health. “We million people. Despite this growth, the U.S.