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How Digital Health and Cryptocurrency are Transforming Modern Therapies

HIT Consultant

By allowing players to donate a portion of their in-game earnings to health-related causes, gaming communities can collectively support the advancement of medical technologies and treatments. Because health data is sensitive, platforms must adopt strong security practices.

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Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential

HIT Consultant

While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today. Recently passed federal regulations that promote interoperability have removed some of the barriers to interoperability.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

The first RFI to issue was the one seeking input on the regulations implementing the Stark law and the federal anti-kickback statute (See: Stark and AKS RFI and public comments ). The original HIPAA regulations were drafted by HHS in the absence of any particular statutory framework. Hey, coordinated care is a good idea.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

The first RFI to issue was the one seeking input on the regulations implementing the Stark law and the federal anti-kickback statute (See: Stark and AKS RFI and public comments ). The original HIPAA regulations were drafted by HHS in the absence of any particular statutory framework. Hey, coordinated care is a good idea.

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Power to the People: David Goldsmith of WEGO Health — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

We talked for about privacy in the post Facebook/Cambridge Analytica age, and David suggested that the evolution of expertise in the patient community regarding medical and broader healthcare matters has its parallels in the evolution of expertise in the same community regarding use of social media tools and the ins and outs of health data privacy.

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Power to the People: David Goldsmith of WEGO Health — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

We talked for about privacy in the post Facebook/Cambridge Analytica age, and David suggested that the evolution of expertise in the patient community regarding medical and broader healthcare matters has its parallels in the evolution of expertise in the same community regarding use of social media tools and the ins and outs of health data privacy.

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A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare

Health Blawg

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the road to our digital health utopia of seamless data interoperability and transparency is littered with rusted hulks of other really great ideas. These didn’t really exist in the days of Google Health, but the Argonaut Project and other initiatives have laid the table.