Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments.

Malpractice 98

Malpractice COVID-19 Public Health Governance 98

Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to play a role in health care for predictive analytics, personalization, and public health. On 26th January, I’ll moderate a tweetchat at 1 pm Eastern time, brainstorming the current and future state of and opportunities for AI in health care.

Public Health 71

Public Health Governance COVID-19 Bioethics 71

Compliancy Group

JUNE 17, 2022

Use of Tracker by Hospitals Likely Violates HIPAA. Experts contacted in the article, including a former head of HIPAA enforcement for the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights expressed concern about the legality of the data transfer without patient authorization. It is quite likely a HIPAA violation.”.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals HIPAA Doctors Bioethics 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

” The spider-web drawing from Sweeney’s privacy lab drew the many data flows that fall outside of the HIPAA law, a graphic drawn years before smartphones sensed GPS and wearable technologies became mainstream.

COVID-19 133

COVID-19 Public Health HIPAA Health Insurance 133

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disrupted and re-shaped the annual CES across so many respects — the meeting of thousands making up the global consumer tech community “met” virtually, both keynote and education sessions were pre-recorded, and the lovely serendipity of learning and meeting new concepts and contacts wasn’t so straightforward. (..)

US Department of Health and Human Services 77

US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Electronic Medical Records Hospitals 77

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Would you have thought about your health care record’s stewardship for a second when you were at your health care provider 15 years ago, hastily signing a HIPAA form? There could be a similar discussion around how the players in the health care system are evolving. Not really.

Health Insurance 86

Health Insurance Pharmaceutical Industry HIPAA Bioethics 86

Jane Sarashon

JULY 28, 2022

” This observation comes from a new report, Tech Giants in Healthcare , written by four European-based experts in healthcare and bioethics. HIPAA continues to have holes and data “leakages” that can compromise peoples’ trust and confidence in health data systems, along with their faith in care delivery.

Bioethics 52

Bioethics Governance Health Insurance Public Health 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

There’s less talk about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency at #CES2020. The most important currency under discussion is Trust. We have begun a consumer electronics migration from the past decade of the Internet of Things to this next decade of the Intelligence of Things.

Telemedicine 71

Telemedicine Hospitals Doctors Nurses 71

Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

Citizens around the world unite around the concept that Trust is Dead. This is no truer than in the U.S., where trust in every type of organization and expert has plummeted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, political and social strife, and an economic downturn.

COVID-19 79

COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Governance Public Health 79

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Most Americans associate more optimistic words with human genetics research than they do darker implications: “curious,” “hopeful,” “amazed.” ” and indeed “optimistic” ranked the top four impressions in peoples’ minds, based on a survey form the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG).

Doctors 91

Doctors Nurses Bioethics HIPAA 91

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

In the health/care data ecosystem, stakeholders are addressing the specific challenges related to personal health information (PHI) which HIPAA isn’t covering well in this era of Big Data, cloud computing, and of course, bad actors in the dark cybersecurity breach market. What’s not CGD are data covered by HIPAA.

HIPAA 63

HIPAA Governance Bioethics 63