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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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Private Equity and Digital Health in 2023: Policy Updates and Trends to Watch

Sheppard Health Law

If finalized, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule on Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes will require payers to participate in electronic payer-to-payer data exchange and implement automated prior authorization processes. Particularly in the era following the landmark U.S.

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17 HLTH 2022 Predictions from Digital Health Executives to Watch

HIT Consultant

Virtual visits that don’t solve capacity challenges or integrate into existing workflows need to change. First, mental health should not be seen as some adjunctive problem to solve. It’s integral to physical health and should be treated as such. Mark Engelen, CEO of RXLive. In so doing, the U.S.

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Why There’s Renewed Interest In The Cloud for Healthcare

HIT Consultant

For example, a doctor uses their digital identity to log into a patient’s medical record. We’ve already seen many healthcare organizations adopt cloud technologies with the rise of telemedicine, a trend that shows no signs of slowing. Why is it important to protect a user’s digital identity?

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The 5 Key Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring

Twistle

Over the past year we’ve experienced the important role of telemedicine in monitoring and managing patient health and wellness. More consistent monitoring of biometric data provides organizations with the ability to detect when patients deviate from the expected course in real time. . Greater Patient Accountability.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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How patient-facing apps can help support specialists – who are in short supply

Healthcare It News

Telemedicine has allowed specialists to deliver care for some patients who might otherwise have difficulty in accessing care. As a subset of telemedicine, RPM picked up steam in the past two years as more patients and providers were looking for more impactful and convenient ways to receive and deliver care.