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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?

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Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance Takes On Interoperability

Chilmark Research

Public vs. Private Oversight of Mobile Health. mHealth, known for rapid innovation and iteration, has a tendency to buck at the snail’s pace of FDA regulation. This could herald a new age of credibility for mHealth. The group’s stated purpose is to enable interoperability across the five founding members’ EHRs.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

Thus you can also send me a question to my gmail address which simply is my name - JohnMoehrke The rules are simple: Topics I'll cover include anything in my banner specific to Healthcare Interoperability Standards Health Information Exchange, Document Exchange XDS/XCA/MHD, mHealth, Patient Identity, Provider Directories, FHIR, Consent, Access Control, (..)

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Focus on Technology for Older Adults Sharpens in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

At the same time, the technology market presents growing complexity, worsening privacy issues, and interoperability limitations, while not effectively lowering the cost of access or the price of useful devices. At 65, older adults have longer life expectancy than previous generations.

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The ROI of DICOM: A Candy Striper's Story

Christina's Considerations

I'm teaching this week - health informatics to nurses, public health and health administration students. Last week we discussed standards and interoperability; and it reminded me of a story. The memory was triggered by student discussions. One said it must.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. From a provider standpoint. Clinical trials.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Why Should Anyone Care About Health Data Interoperability? ; Miller, Jr. and Marielle Gross, MD, MBE, September 9, 2019.

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