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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. ” Software Advice wondered.

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Advancing Health Equity by Addressing The Health Data Desert

HIT Consultant

Doctors have no access to data about the social determinants of health, hampering their ability to tailor care to patients. With incomplete data, certain populations are overlooked during the development of new drugs. It’s not a stretch to say that your phone knows more about many of these key factors than your doctor.

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Health Data Privacy: Majority of Patients Demand Accountability, Transparency

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new examination of patient perspectives on health data privacy illustrates unresolved tension over the eroding security and confidentiality of personal health information in a wired society and economy. This concern is magnified with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. .

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U.S. Virgin Islands Launches Health Data Interoperability Pilot

HIT Consultant

signed a Letter of Intent with CRISP Shared Services to participate in a health data interoperability pilot program that will lay the foundation for OHIT’s Health Information Exchange in the Territory. Virgin Islands (USVI) Governor Albert Bryan Jr.

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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

Healthcare It News

This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data. On the dark side, there are patient concerns: Will my data be exploited? Will I lose the connection with my doctor? Reduced burden on frontline staff due to tech-enabled capacity optimisations. Is it safe?

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Lessons in Health Data Privacy from the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

Bill Of Health

The past may hold important lessons for our uncertain future of health privacy for patients, physicians, and hospitals in the face of abortion subpoenas post- Dobbs. . Familiar tactics and arguments will be levied in forthcoming battles for medical record data access. On the other side, U.S.

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When is it Okay to Use Your Health Data To Recommend Helpful Products?

Healthcare Leadership

I recently had a conversation about the mountain of health-related mobile apps that are currently available for “free”. I was lamenting how many people were downloading and using these solutions without fully understanding that their health data collected by these apps was being used to market products and service to them.