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

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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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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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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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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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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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.

Public Health 143

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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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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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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.

Public Health 108

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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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Bill of Health

JULY 13, 2022

As others have written, including Rachel Rebouché and Paola Bergallo, the incompleteness of laws banning abortion — for example, what is a medical emergency, and who determines it? — means that women’s rights often will be subordinated to informal and background norms.

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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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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.

Compliance 98

Compliance Public Health HIPAA Governance 98

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

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

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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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.

Public Health 97

Public Health Medicaid Medicaid Health Insurance 97

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 Law Blog

JULY 5, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Secretary of HHS to provide more clarity on federal information blocking enforcement rules since the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued its final information blocking rules in 2020. [i]

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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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Governance Health Outcomes Public Health 78

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

believe that the medical mis-information problem is worsening, learned in survey research from Merck Manuals. Less than half of consumers, 44%, said that that there is more medical mis-information online than previously. S ecurity: Can users access content without forfeiting personal information? Doctors in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 26, 2023

have debated whether the government should produce drugs and biologics. Ultimately, the industry was successful in keeping the government away from biologics manufacturing by agreeing to abide by government regulations. By Aparajita Lath For over 100 years, policy makers and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently adopted new policies aimed at protecting access to reproductive health care and reducing government interference in medical practice. The AMA is governed by a House of Delegates (HOD), in addition to executive management and a board of trustees. By Katie Gu. Jack Resneck Jr.,

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C&M Health Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the entity chosen as a contracting partner, The Sequoia Project, Inc., published the long-awaited Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) for health information exchange.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

THE LARGER CONTEXT The project started in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) with support from the SA government's Go2Gov programme. Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Population and Public Health Quality Care Technology Care

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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. WHY IT MATTERS Valuable insights from patient-reported data will inform the clinical decision of TAC physiotherapists.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In fact, before publishing the book, the authors petitioned the government, highlighting glaring regulatory issues, but the government turned a blind eye. The book relies on primary sources of information — mainly government reports, judicial decisions, and government data.

Governance 317

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2023

The situations when a medical professional can release information vary depending on who is releasing the information, what information is being released, when it is being released, and where it is being released. The activity described was not a health information privacy violation.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. Their membership and clientele have expanded in variety as well as numbers.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2022

Recent Eurostat data show that people are increasingly turning to the internet to seek health information online in Europe. In Finland, 80% of adults sought information about their health online last year; in Germany just 45%. In Norway, the same authentication process is used in banking as in health.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. "Information technology will play an important part in supporting the transformation of outpatient services. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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