Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The pandemic revealed rough spots and “warts” in the U.S. health care system, one of which has been access to data and lack of its interoperability.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. That’s a wonky phrase that translates, simply put, into how our health data will be made available to us patients, consumers, health plan members, caregivers all.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

Hospitals are falling short of consumers’ experience-expectations, Kaufman Hall explained in their 2017 State of Consumerism in Healthcare Report with the apt sub-title, “Slow Progress in Fast Times.”. Enter the enterprise health cloud (EHC). EHCs can: Simplify interoperability, enabling data to move into applications.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

“Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I chose to go this route because I had greater assurance that my test result would be “interoperable” with United’s system, thereby ensuring even if I didn’t upload my (hopefully negative) result before I left for the airport, United authorities would receive it.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. Workflow automation provider Hospital IQ found that 70% of health systems face staffing challenges and 61% struggle to forecast department-level staffing capacity.

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Humetrix has pioneered the development of innovative patient-facing mobile health platforms over the past 20 years, starting with smart card health applications in Europe and Asia, and later with smartphone health applications for care-coordination iBlueButton, emergency care SOS QR, and chronic care management TENSIO.

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