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5 ways that health IT can improve health equity

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MARCH 23, 2022

On March 10, I had the distinct privilege of presenting to the ONC Health IT Advisory Committee at their meeting titled “Health Equity by Design.” 5 ways that health IT can improve health equity originally appeared in KevinMD.com. Read more….

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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Machine Learning Meets Public Health in Jvion Heat Maps

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2021

” I heard this summing-up in a recent interview with Dr. John Showalter, chief product officer for Jvion, a prescriptive AI analytics company in health care. His point is that we need to compare two or more populations to find out what makes one health and another unhealthy.

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Featured Health IT Jobs – Epic Business Intelligence Analyst (Product Owner)

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Candidates must reside in one of these U.S. Candidates must reside in one of these U.S. Candidates must reside in one of these U.S. Candidates must reside in one of these U.S.

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. There is mounting pressure by lawmakers and major stakeholders for the U.S

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Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Stakeholder visits, all staff meeting days, development days, and conference attendance count towards the additional 30 days. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. This hybrid work schedule is subject to change.

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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act. Three Important Considerations for ONC and the Health IT Community .

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2,000 telehealth kiosks to be deployed in rural Malaysia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2024

Rural broadband service provider MEASAT and local health IT company Mudah Healthtech have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable the delivery of digital healthcare services in rural and remote communities. THE LARGER CONTEXT Enabling equitable access to quality healthcare is one of the Malaysian government's priorities for health.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Susannah has fashioned this history and these powerful stories into what she terms is a “field guide to the patient-led revolution in medical care:” Rebel Health. If you were involved with writing a business plan from the earliest days of digital health (in the so-called “Health 1.0 or Health 2.0”

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MHRA policy paper on the 'Impact of AI on the regulation of medical products'

Lloyd Price

MAY 13, 2024

By working with international organizations like the IMDRF, the US FDA and Health Canada, they aim to ensure the safe and responsible use of AI in medicine, keeping the UK at the leading edge of global best practices. HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis.

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then. Wilder also dove into his experience with HIEs and how connectivity is key to public health and in preparation for future pandemics or other emergencies.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data.

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. Are there disparities in program participation or health outcomes?

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Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life).

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How Genomics Can Battle Killer Bacterial Infections in the Hospital – Talking With Philips at HIMSS19

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Well, my mind did, prior to meeting with Dr. Joseph Frassica and Dr. Felix Baader at HIMSS19 to discuss Philips’ approach to the tragic problem of healthcare-acquired infections that kill patients. Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) are a worldwide challenge of epidemic, public health proportions.

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The Cost of Prescription Drugs, Doctors and Patient Access – A View from HIMSS19

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve been a paying member of HIMSS for over 25 years when the meeting was small enough to be held in mid-sized cities like San Antonio and San Diego, and one could wear less-than-comfy shoes to cover the exhibition floor.

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TriHealth switches to Zoom for pandemic, sees 3,650% increase in telehealth use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

TriHealth has more than 135 locations, more than 700 providers and more than 250,000 attributed lives, so it was imperative that it have a product that could be scaled quickly and easily to meet demand. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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HHS puts $48M toward rural public health IT, workforce expansion

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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The Stress of the Caregiver: The Most Over-Utilized, Unpaid Stakeholder in U.S. Healthcare

Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2021

healthcare system since Dr. Charles Safran testified with that statement to Congress way back in 2004 …an era where bipartisanship for health IT was a real thing. healthcare system — overused, over-stressed, under-paid, detailed n How Health Systems Can Care for Caregivers , published in the NEJM Catalyst July 2021 issue.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"The operational challenge of deploying equipment to community partner sites during the early stages of the COVID-19 public health emergency were significant," said Dr. Eugene Sullivan, cofounder of the Center for Telehealth at the University of Virginia Health System. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE.

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PHASE Scientific Americas Announces INDICAID Health™ At-Home Test Kits and Digital Health Platform

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 25, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PHASE Scientific Americas (PHASE Scientific), a fast-growing, global biomedical company developing innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare diagnostics, announces INDICAID health , its new line of at-home health tests and digital health experiences.

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Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. In addition to this important reminder, here are three insights for HIEs and health system leadership from the Civitas for Health 2022 event. .

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients

CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Through MyHealthEData, CMS envisions a future in which all patients have access to their own health data and use it to make the right decisions for themselves and to get the best value. Patients should expect health IT that enhances their care coordination instead of disrupting it.

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The Lonely Epidemic: Social Isolation and Technology

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

Shanti also sees technology that helps people find peers in their local community and encouraging them to meet at a gym, gardening club, etc. Some sites are general platforms that engage people with many different interests, while others are designed specifically for a particular niche.

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Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Success Story #1: Moving Upstream to Identify Most Vulnerable Individuals to Prevent Homelessness There’s a common metaphor in public health about the need to move “upstream” to invest in preventive health, rather than wait for people to present at the “bottom of the river” with severe chronic illness.

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Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2023

This openness to care and growing mental health challenges requires healthcare leaders to place a greater emphasis on the availability of services and support. The oldest members of Generation Z are starting to fall off their parents’ health plans. And it has been shown that healthcare decisions weigh heavily on their minds.

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WVU Medicine uses $781K grant to greatly boost telehealth to rural patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

In addition to the need for virtual care across the country as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, West Virginia's transportation constraints, as well as provider availability and dispersion, make long-term virtual services a need. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " Shannon R. McAllister, WVU Medicine.

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Greenway Incorporating Health Equity Features into its EHR

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Addressing health equity starts with meeting patients where they are. The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). According to the WHO , health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being. Occupation.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

As telehealth and virtual care platforms quickly stood up in 2020 during the early weeks in the coronavirus pandemic, both patients and health care providers aligned to continue to meet-up for encounters while keeping viral exposure at bay.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Providers may need to get creative with their workforce and expand globally to meet demands. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Workers are seeking more from their employers.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. Some ready-made CSS tools that states will find useful include: . Agile Technology Tools.

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Arab Health 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 15, 2024

Global Health Challenges: Collaboration on tackling global health issues like pandemics and antibiotic resistance will be a key takeaway. Additional Talking Points: Public Health Strategies: Vaccination programs, disease surveillance, and preparedness for future health emergencies will be discussed.

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Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

These types of interactions have been critical for extending Mayo Clinic’s expertise across a wide geography – and expanding the Mayo Clinic care team across sites to best meet the needs of each patient. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." "We're here for the patient, and we meet them where they are.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America. lacks a robust public health infrastructure.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Test and validate to ensure output meets quality standards, and records can be pulled and exchanged at scale. Patient privacy. Data quality. Risk adjustment scores.

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Weekly Roundup – July 1, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2023

For Tempe, Public Health Means Being a 20-Minute City. The Arizona city is using GIS data to map which neighborhoods make it possible to meet basic needs in a 20-minute trip on foot, by bicycle, or via mass transit. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. During the meeting, the 15 commissioners present weighed the ideal fee schedule for physicians and what services might be included in the future.

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At Denver Health, telehealth education and equipment help close equity gaps and boost engagement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

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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5 ways that health IT can improve health equity

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Machine Learning Meets Public Health in Jvion Heat Maps

Featured Health IT Jobs – Epic Business Intelligence Analyst (Product Owner)

Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance

Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

2,000 telehealth kiosks to be deployed in rural Malaysia

Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

MHRA policy paper on the 'Impact of AI on the regulation of medical products'

Just Get Connected Already

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

How Genomics Can Battle Killer Bacterial Infections in the Hospital – Talking With Philips at HIMSS19

The Cost of Prescription Drugs, Doctors and Patient Access – A View from HIMSS19

TriHealth switches to Zoom for pandemic, sees 3,650% increase in telehealth use

Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

HHS puts $48M toward rural public health IT, workforce expansion

The Stress of the Caregiver: The Most Over-Utilized, Unpaid Stakeholder in U.S. Healthcare

FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

PHASE Scientific Americas Announces INDICAID Health™ At-Home Test Kits and Digital Health Platform

Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients

The Lonely Epidemic: Social Isolation and Technology

Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

WVU Medicine uses $781K grant to greatly boost telehealth to rural patients

Greenway Incorporating Health Equity Features into its EHR

Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Healthcare Workforce – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Arab Health 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth

CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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

Weekly Roundup – July 1, 2023

MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage

At Denver Health, telehealth education and equipment help close equity gaps and boost engagement

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

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