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Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

The scope of health data sharing and use of health data have expanded far beyond electronic health record adoption in healthcare settings to encompass data sets inclusive of demographics, behavioral health, social determinants of health (SDOH), and public health.

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A Few #HealthPolicyValentines

Healthcare IT Today

In the world of health IT and healthcare policy, this is the day we love to share our love (and some disdain) for healthcare in what we call #HealthPolicyValentines. Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! May your lives be filled with love this day.

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Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." You can really envision the delivery of automated services – public health services, social services – anywhere to the person in the community.

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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. It’s there to protect us from evildoers. Before Health IT Certification. Sometimes they were not.

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Video: Farzad Mostashari on patient engagement, ‘physician ACOs’

Meaningful HIT News

As I alluded to earlier, I was leaving the press room one afternoon at HIMSS14, and there I see former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari hanging around Gregg Masters and Dr. Pat Salber of Health Innovation Media.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance. In “rest of state” (as those of us beyond NYC are sometimes referred to) – there is no need for the HERO – as we’ll see below.

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Building the Future through CMS eHealth

CMS.gov

We are living in a time of rapid and unprecedented change for health IT. Physicians, hospitals, and health care providers across the country are rushing to adopt new hardware, new software, and new workflow processes that make all of these initiatives possible. CMS Launches eHealth. Learn More at HIMSS and Online.

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