Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

patients’ electronic health records lack the level of interoperability that the COVID-19 pandemic could have better leveraged. That’s a big if: in the U.S., could develop a national COVID-19 pandemic surveillance system.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Health informatics research contributes to advancements in healthcare practices, treatment modalities, and public health policies. Health Information Technology (Health IT) HealthIT.gov. What is Health IT? What is Health Informatics? References: American Medical Informatics Association.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

Every stakeholder in health care as an individual as well as member of an organization has a role to play in addressing climate change. Check out an essay on the role of health informatics in climate disaster published in JAMIA by two health IT experts with the Australian institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University in Sydney.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

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. What should CIOs, CMIOs and other health IT leaders at healthcare provider organizations know about this effort?

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

Fair Foundation, First Focus, Global Liver Institute, Hydrocephalus Association, LULAC, MANA (a Latina advocacy organization), Myositis Association, National Consumers League, National Health IT Collaborative, National Hispanic Council on Aging, National Hispanic Medical Association, National Minority Quality Forum, Patient Power, Prevention Institute, (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to the WHO , health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being. The WHO, identifies many factors that influence health and health equity including: Socio-economic position. Public health policies. Access to the health system. Occupation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it was making almost $48 million available in American Rescue Plan funding for public health capacity in rural and tribal communities, through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

. “While it is understandable to see a decline in mental health or emotional well-being during trying times, this is not a normal part of aging.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mo formerly served in leadership roles for Cotiviti, FinThrive, and McKinsey & Company.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Before founding Zócalo Health, he served as a founding team member and senior leader at Amazon Care where he led several technical teams. A seasoned entrepreneur and health system leader, he previously managed a health IT portfolio at Tenet Health and led founding operations and technology at EverlyWell. healthcare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

Fair Foundation, First Focus, Global Liver Institute, Hydrocephalus Association, LULAC, MANA (a Latina advocacy organization), Myositis Association, National Consumers League, National Health IT Collaborative, National Hispanic Council on Aging, National Hispanic Medical Association, National Minority Quality Forum, Patient Power, Prevention Institute, (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

In 2021, as a continued trend from 2020, we expect hospitals to dedicate large portions of capital budgets towards digital transformation efforts – for virtual care, remote patient monitoring, analytics, and other health IT capabilities. This development will also drive growth in virtual care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Value-based payment platform provider Clarify Health launched Clarify Access , an analytics tool designed to help pharma companies develop market access strategies. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

That’s when, here in the UK, I cut my own professional teeth on the role of health IT to help measure and manage health care resources, quality and patient outcomes under severe resource constraints.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

Lord knows that through the bedlam of the past year-plus, there have been countless lessons to be learned in healthcare and health IT. They are: Andrew Buscemi, director of information technology at Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts. ( @HolyokeHealth ). But they've also been dreaming up creative solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers. Dr. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In the COVID-19 era, most U.S. However, only 44% would be willing to share their personal data with a national database, a MITRE study learned.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That’s roughly the same proportion of consumers who look to their gyms and health clubs, and to farmers, for being allies “on my side” for health. It’s clear that people want to engage in health via the food they buy and consume.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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E-CareManagement

JULY 29, 2019

The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma has many tentacles: Federal/State privacy legislation; health IT tech, policy & interoperability; data for AI & machine learning; data for clinical research; ethical issues; compensating individuals for their data; health data business models & many others.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

When I asked my longtime colleague and friend Robert Mittman, with whom I collaborated at Institute for the Future for a decade, how he managed international travel and jet lag, he said simply, “The time zone you’re in is the time zone you’re in.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

Three reports published in the past few weeks give us some useful perspective on that question, woven together in today’s Health Populi blog. Let’s start with the Philips Future Health Index , which assesses value to 16 national health systems through three lenses: access, satisfaction, and efficiency.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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E-CareManagement

APRIL 12, 2015

Last Friday ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) released a long-awaited Report On Health Information Blocking. The ONC blog capsulizes the report: Health information blocking occurs when persons or entities knowingly and unreasonably interfere with the exchange or use of electronic health information.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

The report on health care systems and providers was released this week: COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs was authored by experts on the front-line of health care delivery, medical education, and health policy. The paper describes the landscape of the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

When you’re on the battlefield and you can’t see what lies ahead, go high, recommended General Von Clausewitz in his book, On War.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Released on Friday, the wonks at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) urged officials going into the long holiday weekend to remember amid the celebrations that we still don’t know the final toll of the pandemic, especially when it comes to long-term consequences for behavioral and mental health.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2020

What happens when you bring an amazing group of experts to talk about an important topic? That’s how I’d describe this National Patient ID virtual meetup we put together with our friends at NextGate.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Overall, we’re optimistic about the future of health data. As health systems continue to become data rich and accumulate vast amounts of information, health IT companies must create solutions that automate and optimize the clinical process.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How could a nutrition label help to address this risk and bolster confidence in and competence from AI in health care? What health IT can learn from the history of the nutrition label. Assuring these features will “cook up” health IT solutions for the benefit of health citizens and their health care providers.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 20, 2019

In the previous post of our series we described the “ Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”. Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? by Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 13, 2019

The McKinsey “2,750 times” statistic is a pretty good proxy for the amount of your personal health data that is NOT protected by HIPAA and currently is broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties.

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