Healthcare It News

JULY 6, 2023

A new value-based programme of the Victorian government's Transport Accident Commission has started collecting and analysing patient-reported outcomes and experiences. Meanwhile, The Clinician is enabling more public health organisations across Australia to harness patient-generated information to improve health outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The NSW government has put up an online toolkit that provides information about the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. According to a media release, the Menopause toolkit links to "clear and accurate" information, including locations of NSW government-funded clinics. NSW launches online menopause toolkit.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Population health and precision medicine defined. When President Barack Obama announced during the 2015 State of the Union Address that the government was launching the Precision Medicine Initiative, a debate began about whether and how precision medicine and population health management could coexist in the U.S. health system.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). Key Public Health Obstacles Post Covid-19. To move forward, public health leaders should clarify strategy from the top-down.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Their performance grades will be made available on public dashboards to help AB PM-JAY beneficiaries make informed decisions. The NHA seeks to introduce the concept of value-based care across the Indian public health ecosystem. WHY IT MATTERS. Enterprise Taxonomy: Payers Finance Quality Care Value-based care Business Care.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

” Patient health outcomes were the overarching factor in determining whether public-private partnerships can optimise 5G adoption in healthcare. As a long-time veteran in Taiwan’s public healthcare, Lee shared his view. "We [the government] need to set up regulation infrastructures [for 5G adoption].

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2024

Less than 50% of people living in 16 countries do not trust government, media, or NGOs to do what is right to address their health needs and concerns, based on the responses from over 15,000 people living in 16 countries whose opinions are captured in the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer’s Special Report on Trust and Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health. My career spans over three decades in health information technology, health policy and public health, including roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and in state government.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

There's help for providers who want to help aging patients navigate complex government websites and access the information and resources they need to overcome isolation, lack of transportation and limited financial resources barring full access to healthcare opportunities. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 20, 2022

Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell. For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. About Kristin Ballantine.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, this is reflected in the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies (2023). Can age and disability be considered in triage decisions in the face of public health emergencies?

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 22, 2022

The federal government and several states have implemented strategies to improve and promote OUD treatment access, especially for the relatively inexpensive and effective medication buprenorphine. Goodin, PhD, MPP, is assistant professor of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy at the University of Florida.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

.” Five years later, Edelman has fielded a survey to determine what some 4,000 health citizens living in 4 countries (Brazil, India, the UK, and the U.S.) are thinking and feeling about life after COVID-19 — and especially where their trust lies in institutions, fellow citizens, and future public health emergencies.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Governments, private and public health care organisations are taking action after the learnings from the pandemic, to increase data quality and equality. Technologies and solutions like cloud, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, and mobile technology can help improve health outcomes.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For individuals with chronic illnesses exacerbated by extreme temperatures, these reductions in temperature are crucial for improving health outcomes. The findings show that, as a result, respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes improve among those living in weatherized homes.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Despite significant obstacles, including data security, data governance, and the high costs of scaling AI in a compliant way, healthcare’s adoption of AI is outpacing other industries. This includes setting robust data governance policies to meet privacy regulations set forth by HIPAA and GDPR. She is based in Silicon Valley.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

“When healthcare professionals collaborate with patients, it leads to more informed decision-making and improved health outcomes,” ECRI recommends… with the prescription for misinformation being health literacy. Consider the growth of TikTok in medical information, for example.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The lawsuits, arising from the desire to hold platforms accountable for exploiting children’s susceptibility to rewarding stimuli during development, present a novel theory of liability based solely on an algorithm’s ability to cause addiction rather than adverse mental health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The scope of health data sharing and use of health data have expanded far beyond electronic health record adoption in healthcare settings to encompass data sets inclusive of demographics, behavioral health, social determinants of health (SDOH), and public health.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Improve health outcomes by ensuring adequate follow-up and better patient adherence and patient satisfaction. Secure the institution as an academic health center using innovative biomedical technology. Increase the reach of the organization's specialists and providers. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 8, 2023

To achieve such intersectional approaches, the social determinants of health provide a useful framework. It explains how conditions, forces, and systems, including poverty, discrimination, underlying health disparities, and governance, not only shape daily life but also vulnerability to climate-induced disasters (Figure 1).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2022

This global crisis has tested our ability as a civilization to respond to public health emergencies and mitigate the impact of geopolitical interference impeding our collective adherence to sensible policies geared towards disease prevention. Effective public health communication is the cornerstone of any pandemic response.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 15, 2024

What You Should Know: – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is taking a leap forward in digital health transformation by partnering with Guidehouse and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to assess the current state of its public health data infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

One possible consideration for the country is the shift towards value-based healthcare (VBHC), which is about improving healthcare outcomes at lower cost. While VBHC sounds promising, the reality is that it is challenging to achieve as transforming a health system that is truly patient-centred and outcome based requires a lot of work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

However, the public health emergency also acted as an opportunity of sorts – namely, legislative and regulatory flexibilities around telehealth revealed how care can be expanded in new ways. And some health systems have relied on telemedicine during the pandemic to continue providing seamless care for patients with disabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2024

The acquisition advances Healthy Together’s mission to improve collective health and make government and enterprises more efficient. Early detection supports rapid interventions throughout the public and private healthcare ecosystem. ” said Inder Singh , Founder of Kinsa Health.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Trust, or really lack thereof, is a killer app for people’s coronavirus health outcomes. That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19. The graph illustrates where the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Legal penalties have been shown to effectively drive entrepreneurial innovation in areas with clearly definable objectives, but choosing which industry metrics will result in desired public health outcomes is no easy task. We shouldn’t expect everyone to aspire to develop a billion dollars of affordable housing.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

Among its efforts is a focus on promoting community-level health behaviors, such as increasing screening efforts; reinforcing the benefit of prescription and over-the-counter medications; and targeting communities that are at elevated risk for heart disease due to social and economic conditions. But now is the time to reverse those setbacks.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Prioritizing data that has been purpose-built and clinically validated ensures that we’re tracking data that truly predicts and impacts health outcomes, not just correlation. Cancer researchers are investigating the impacts of cancer on long-term health outcomes, financial strain, and household impact.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

With many more types of health information specifically included as EHI, organizations regulated under the 21 st Century Cures Act are on the hook to respond to requests for that information from individuals, providers, public health agencies, and health information exchanges. About Mariann Yeager.

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Healthcare Law Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It also requires that the Secretary report to Congress on the state of the SNS, and to issue guidance and hold annual meetings with public health officials and stakeholders on how states, territories, and Tribes can access the SNS. Modernizes public health data through biosurveillance and infectious disease data collection.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Trusted Exchange Framework describes the common principles for data sharing, while the Common Agreement is a legal agreement that defines the governing approach, expectations, and rules for the QHINs. With more accurate, complete, and up-to-date data, physicians can make better decisions to generate better health outcomes.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Because, as I wrote in the Huffington Post about why a grocery store likes health data, employers who cover health insurance are payors keen to drive health outcomes for workers at a reasonable cost – in other words, to derive a good return-on-investment for health insurance spending on behalf of employees.

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