Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

While 95% of organizations said digital engagement tools improve the patient experience, 42% said there are “significant gaps” between what patients expect and what they can provide. Nurse-1-1 released its live chat tool, which provides patients with access to more than 3,000 providers in its nationwide network.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Health data analytics also facilitates population health management, identifying trends, and patterns to optimize preventive care and public health interventions. Health informatics research contributes to advancements in healthcare practices, treatment modalities, and public health policies.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

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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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

A fourth SDOH I’ve been advocating for the past decade is peoples’ access to digital health tools that can scale care to the person, that N of 1, wherever s/he lives. Rural and urban dwellers, alike, often cannot afford data plans charged by Internet Service Providers.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

This investigation should be documented that confirms whether a breach occurred, the circumstances surrounding it, and the type of information that was disclosed Breach Notification. The type of unsecured protected health information (PHI) involved in the breach. This notification must be made without unreasonable delay.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the case of patient data collaborations between Big (or small) Tech and health care providers, keeping the patients’ best interests central — transparent, on an opt-in basis, with the consumer-health citizen in control of her/his personal health information — should be a central tenet of these deals.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Digital appointment reminders, self-scheduling features, mobile apps and other online tools can help reduce no-shows and keep patients engaged and motivated. Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state. Identify suitable Medicaid patients in your practice.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

For example, groups of CHCs called the Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) , which have traditionally collaborated to leverage health information technology, are positioned to harness their economies of scale and group purchasing power to widely adopt new infrastructure while standardizing protocols.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

That’s why it’s so important to remind people the only tools we have today are physical distancing, handwashing, and wearing masks in public. We have to take the tools we have and try and distribute them as equitably as we possibly can. Am I willing to share my health data so that you know if I got it?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care.

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Digital Health Health Policy Medical Billing Interoperability 256

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Healthcare providers should develop effective strategies to grow capacity and infrastructure for outpatient services and invest in innovative mobile technologies, diagnostic tools, and telemedicine systems. Consolidation will continue industry wide. More healthcare entities will continue to merge together.

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