Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The opportunity to impact the healthcare outcomes of populations via SDOH lays in the ability "to incorporate unstructured, non-traditional health data into the patient record," he wrote for Healthcare IT News during the pandemic. SDOH data is a matter of interoperability , as it is often intentionally trapped.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

AHA, however, noted two specific issues that "would benefit from congressional attention" – OCR's December rule regarding the use of online tracking tools and the various state privacy regulations that pile on HIPAA.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Congress’s expansion of access to telehealth takes steps to ensure continuity of care for Medicare beneficiaries and provides regulators with additional time to determine which flexibilities will become permanent, indicating a success for the telehealth industry as well as a reminder that there is more legislation to come.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Among those people who do not yet use health apps or wearable tech for health, cost is the top reason they haven’t adopted digital health tools, Morning Consult found. Why do people own and use health wearables? In a distant third place is encouragement in losing or controlling weight (13%).

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

The mandate of these healthcare networks is clear – to improve patient experiences and population health outcomes while simultaneously reducing costs. Much of patient health data management is still largely siloed, even with information available through EHRs.

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Lexis Nexis

JULY 20, 2022

All these missed preventive services mean the onus is on health plans in risk-based agreements to reduce the health risks of their member population and to qualify for financial bonuses by successfully doing so. The data problem of closing gaps in care. Data access is vital. Creating a gap in care report.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

High-quality, integrated care requires strong system-level partnerships, information and data sharing, and family-centered practices. Yet, states often face barriers to integrated care including a lack of trust across agencies, privacy regulations that may hinder data sharing, and misaligned eligibility, enrollment, and referral systems.

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