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Hospitals are hiding prices from patients, advocacy report says

Healthcare Dive

Patient Rights Advocate concluded that some hospitals owned by Ascension and HCA Healthcare are omitting rates for medical services from files made public under new federal rules.

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Educating patients to advocate for themselves and for policy change

Healthcare It News

Gözde Susuzlu Briggs, programme manager for the European Patients' Forum, discusses the "Data Saves Lives" initiative, which explains digital data and AI concepts to patients and encourages involvement in patient advocacy organizations.

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Hearing Patients and Their Caregivers First Hand at the RARE Patient Advocacy Summit

Healthcare IT Today

Kind of on a whim I decided to head to San Diego (a great place for whimsical travel) for the RARE Patient Advocacy Summit by Global Genes. To be fair, Effie Parks from Once Upon a Gene Podcast had told me about it before and I’d been on the fence on whether I should go or not.

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ATA hosts series this week on the value of virtual care

Healthcare It News

ATA is taking the week to encourage telehealth solution providers, hospital systems and medical practices, patient advocacy leaders, policymakers and other stakeholders to examine hybrid care models that include in-person and virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Rare Genomics Institute Brings Hope To Rare Disease Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

By Romina Ortiz, COO and vice president of patient advocacy, Rare Genomics Institute. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Getting a diagnosis for a rare disease is a long and often painful journey that can take an average of five years1 and hundreds of doctor visits.

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Valley Health System aims to transform care delivery with new tech-intensive hospital

Healthcare It News

ADVICE FOR OTHERS Carey's advice for his peers considering similar technology implementations includes: Involve all levels of the organization, from frontline staff through to top leadership Involve multiple industry experts in all fields Include patient advocacy teams Build a test lab and require vendors to provide test equipment to test integration, (..)

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Drug-free sinus pain relief, acne app, patient advocacy aggregator, and more debut at Health 2.0's 'Launch!'

Mobi Health News

OMNY Health, which helps hospitals monetize operational data, took home the audience choice grand prize.