Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By focusing on person-centered, inclusive design as the first of its federal health information technology principles, ASTP says the plan seeks to "strengthen individual's ability to securely access and use their own health information to take greater control over their own health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In light of that, many have wondered whether the government has a role to play in healthcare cybersecurity. What role does the government have, if any, when it comes to healthcare cybersecurity? What role does the government have, if any, when it comes to healthcare cybersecurity? Here are his responses.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Decarceration would obviously go a long way in stopping the ongoing harms of COVID-19 in prisons and jails, and preventing such harms from future pandemics and public health crises. Going forward, official public health guidance issued to and about prisons and jails should be worded in mandatory language.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 28, 2023

This rational pragmatism of the study participants was informed by values such as improving quality of life, equality and (universal) access to healthcare, moral autonomy, and innovation. Most striking is that the WHO committee elevates caution to the echelon of ‘values and principles’ that ought to guide the governance of HGE.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

For those unfamiliar with the concept, “low-code” generally refers to app development platforms in which users can input information and get the results they need through graphical user interfaces, or GUIs, rather than having to build or modify their own programs from scratch or with heavy engineering resources. That’s all changing, however.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom. We address the privacy and security of sensitive health data in two ways. We believe that the best way to protect that information is to not store it.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2023

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing to examine cybersecurity risks to the healthcare sector, how healthcare providers and the federal government are working to combat those threats, and determine what the federal government needs to do to improve defenses against cyberattacks on the healthcare sector.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Operations Data Science Data management Strategic Planning Care Business Data and Information Organizational Governance Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 27, 2024

What You Should Know: – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)is seeking public input on a new draft plan outlining the nation’s health information technology (health IT) strategy for the next six years.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 22, 2023

Patient safety crises All that said, the NHS is still rocked by major patient safety crises, despite having a sophisticated, highly engineered patient safety health regulatory and governance framework. The post The NHS Patient Safety Information Tidal Wave first appeared on Bill of Health.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Zione Ntaba Malawi is not a stranger to public health crises in the last number of years, having faced a severe HIV epidemic and several cholera outbreaks continuing into 2023. It is with this context in mind that I turn to reflecting on the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (“Principles”).

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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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HIT Consultant

MAY 30, 2023

What You Should Know: Deloitte has published some new research about how government can advance biomedical innovation and improve public health. The rapid development of COVID-19 therapeutics demonstrated a transformative approach by the government in promoting innovation.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The project building New Zealand's national health information platform has been put on hold following budget cuts for digital health. In a statement to Healthcare IT News , Michael Dreyer, director of the Digital Channels sector at Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand), confirmed that the Hira project has been suspended.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2024

The second version of ONC's Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, is designed to support the data exchange needs of patients, providers, payers and public health agencies.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The South Korean government seeks to streamline access to the personal health records of over eight million patients held in tertiary general hospitals in a single platform by next year. It also enables hospitals to securely access their information with consent.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 23, 2023

By Enrique Santamaría Together with the Data Governance Act (DGA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the proposal for a Regulation on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) will most likely form the new regulatory and governance framework for the use of health data in the European Union. health data).

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2020

In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health. That was a watershed moment in U.S.

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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. Once that data is obtained, the previously inaccessible information should be loaded into a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) repository. .

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Institute for Healthcare Policy Innovation’s National Poll on Healthy Aging at the University of Michigan focused on people 50 and over in their latest study published this month: Health Literacy – How Well Can Older Adults Find, Understand, and Use Health Information. 21% went to Federal government agencies.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Australian gov't urged to raise My Health Record funding An organisation of general practitioners in Australia has called on the federal government to upgrade the country's digital health record system. The dashboard is also informed by the updated Australian consensus on treating moderate to severe psoriasis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

The Linux Foundation has launched a new project to harness open source software to help global public health agencies fight back against COVID-19 and prepare for future public health challenges. COVID Green was created by a team at NearForm in cooperation with the Irish government. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 1, 2024

As well as meeting their own environmental, social and governance (ESG) ambitions, companies know that they are unlikely to win public tenders or private contracts unless they are committed to reducing their carbon footprint.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

More healthcare stakeholders in China are contributing to the government's vision to make smart Chinese medicine popular and standardised. Based on a press statement, the chronic disease management system will comprehensively track a patient's medical journey and enable functions for follow-up care and long-term health management.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

researchers are exploring how electronic health records (EHRs) can be used to improve public health surveillance and intervention efforts. utilize EHRs, sharing this data with public health departments is currently limited due to legal, political, and organizational barriers.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Leigh Burchell, Vice President of Policy & Government Affairs, Allscripts. Understand what constitutes “Electronic Health Information”. Electronic Health Information,” ONC’s new term for the data elements that need to be “exchangeable” upon request, is currently limited to data elements within the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It also manages cloud migration infrastructure, enabling providers to "more quickly and easily connect distributed datasets, efficiently move workloads and information across cloud solutions and on-premise services." It has been working with HSS on the digital transformation of WA Health since 2019.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Commenting on these revelations, the Deputy Director-General of South Africa’s Department of Health has conceded that South Africa was “screwed” by the global Covid-19 vaccine procurement process and that the government is “very unhappy with the way in which this all happened”.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. public investment in the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines between 1985 to 2019.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. The statewide expansion of virtualKIDS, which is part of the current NSW government's commitment to delivering 25 urgent care services by mid-2025, is now expected to support at least 500 NSW children and their families each month.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS ONC and Sequoia say the seven designated Qualified Health Information Networks under TEFCA can now adopt and begin implementing the new version, CA v2.0, "We have long intended for TEFCA to have the capacity to enable FHIR API exchange," said National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

Talib Jaber, RPh, VP of Customer Success, Sunwave Health The pandemic caused a significant increase in overdose and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) related deaths, exposing long-standing deficiencies in the identification and treatment of SUD. And recent statistics bolster this worry.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sweeping healthcare policy changes that enable vulnerable Americans to receive affordable health coverage and access essential safety net benefits. Most government agencies have disparate legacy eligibility and enrollment systems that do not share data.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, or MiHIN, has partnered with Beyond Lucid Technologies, a healthcare data exchange and analytics company, as well as the Reading Emergency Unit and South Central-based Hillsdale Hospital. "This isn’t about Fire or EMS, or public or private services."

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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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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2024

Over A$235 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government so it can recruit more clinicians. Through the digital pathway, expectant parents can access educational materials and information; they can also complete required assessments and consent before their appointments.

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