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5 Key Challenges Preventing Innovation in Digital Health

HIT Consultant

Data privacy and security Within pharmaceutical , hospital, clinic and other healthcare settings, there is a need to balance the requirements of data protection and security with the need for innovation such as real-time alerting, predictive analysis, and telemedicine. million patients affected by data breaches in 2021 alone.

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Telemedicine Data Privacy and the Mifepristone Debates

Bill Of Health

By Katie Gu Mifepristone’s shifting legal terrain may soon raise new privacy considerations regarding telemedicine data collection, security, and disclosure. The Mifepristone Debates Mifepristone is the first medication of a two-part drug regime that accounts for approximately half of legal abortions in the United States.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

HIT Consultant

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Confidentiality Laws and regulations govern the confidentiality of medical data. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

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Why Companies Need Healthcare Commercial Intelligence

HIT Consultant

– Who are the key decision-makers at our target account? Telemedicine use grew more than 6,000 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic and experts estimate that the pandemic drove 10 years’ worth of telemedicine innovations in roughly 12 months. – How can I size the market for the products we sell to hospitals?

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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals

HIT Consultant

Additionally, digitized health records have been used to make patient information more easily accessible, first to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH mandates, and now, increasingly, to meet the 21st Century Cures Act ‘Final Rule’ mandate, requiring timely and standardized access to all patient data.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

Health Populi

bn for patient spending on branded drug cost-sharing after accounting for manufacture-financed support. There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. voters across political party: that is the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs. Exhibit 3 shows these costs for each stakeholder, totaling $93 billion.

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Access to Abortion Pill on the Precipice: A Deep Dive into the Federal Court Rulings that will Decide the Fate of Mifepristone 

Sheppard Health Law

Casey , holding that there is no constitutional right to abortion, and granting individual states the authority to regulate abortion as they deem appropriate. Accessibility : Medication abortions currently account for more than 50% of all abortions in the United States. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.