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Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Bill of Health

The HIPAA Privacy Rule should address PROMs as well. Because of the sensitive nature of much of the data, HIPAA should provide that as a default, PROM responses should not be disclosed to third parties (even when HIPAA permits disclosures) without specific requests for them along with justifications as to why they are needed.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them. With fast growth in the public health crisis comes evolving and growing risks that, in the midst of the pandemic hurricane, have gone unattended.

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Ensuring That Humanity Retains Control of Connected Things: A Message from Microsoft at CES 2021

Health Populi

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.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S.,

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The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 4 – Tech Giants in Healthcare, U.S. Lessons from Europe

Jane Sarashon

“Tech giants are the primary forces driving digital transformation forward,” and this is especially the case for health care systems re-imagining how health care services are delivered and “consumed.”