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Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic disease

Healthcare It News

Alexandra Hospital has taken part in the launch of a new cloud-based digital health service in Singapore by telecommunications provider StarHub, together with its partners, health technology company ConnectedLife and Fitbit. WHAT IT DOES. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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The future of technology can make your hospital a model of care and efficiency

Healthcare It News

By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. It plays a key role in shifting from disease treatment to health management and also works to alleviate operational inefficiencies and deliver actionable insights. It can assist with many preventive-care measures.

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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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Advancing Health Equity by Addressing The Health Data Desert

HIT Consultant

The remaining 80% comes from the social determinants of health, such as public safety, the availability of stable jobs, access to green spaces, cultural practices, and more. Rural communities may lack easy access to preventive care and screenings. hospitals screen patients for the social determinants of health and other markers.

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Singapore to Pass Comprehensive Health Data Law

Triage Health Law

On December 4, 2023, Singapore’s Ministry of Health (Ministry) announced that the nation’s first ever comprehensive health data law, the Health Information Bill (Bill), will be introduced in mid-2024. A set of Cyber & Data Security Guidelines for Healthcare Providers (Guidelines) was also published.

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4 Keys to Modernizing Public Health Data Collection and Analysis

HIT Consultant

Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. public health infectious disease data collection and analysis methods which are critical for identifying behavioral risk factors and preventive actions.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.