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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

HealthPolicyValentines [link] — Jared Jeffery (@Jk_Jeffery) February 12, 2024 One more…I promise: Roses are red, data is blue, Computers are fun, But Meaningful Use sucks without you. #HealthPolicyValentines — Heather K (@korb_heather) February 12, 2024 Resurrecting this zinger from a couple years back.

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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Wolf also pointed out that the recent bloom in telehealth is rooted, in part, in the government's electronic health record incentive program and meaningful use. "It's a pretty exciting time for telehealth," said Rep.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The prevalence ( if not ubiquity ) of broadband, combined with fast-advancing robotics, ingestible technologies and wearable sensors as thin and lightweight as temporary tattoos – to name just a few recent innovations – are set to transform "medical services, public health, social services.

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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. After The Jungle was published. Sometimes they were not.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades. Lisa is an excellent health tech policy follow, by the way). Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2012, and made immunization reporting mandatory unless a state had no registry. It also converged on HL7 2.5.1

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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.