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Interoperability: How Hospitals Share Healthcare Data Can Cost Lives, We Can All Do Better

HIT Consultant

Since 1996, when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law, there have been good advances in patient data interoperability, but as a whole, the industry has not embraced them. This drove the use of Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) in acute care hospitals to 84 percent by 2015.

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HITECH is a critical aspect of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA). Since 2009, HITECH has given “teeth” to HIPAA law. HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. This act was signed into law by President Obama back in 2009.

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HITECH is a critical aspect of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA). Since 2009, HITECH has given “teeth” to HIPAA law. HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. This act was signed into law by President Obama back in 2009.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.