Last weekend, I started a process that some may consider regressive. I began deleting my social media accounts to improve the signal to noise ratio in my life. 10 years ago I wrote about the importance of social media and building networks of colleagues, collaborators and relationships. During that decade our social norms have changed to the point that we walk off cliffs, text while driving, and document every microsecond of our lives on devices that have become the centerpiece of our waking hours. The problem has gotten so profound that Google has introduced artificial intelligence technology to respond to messaging for you - “LOL”, “cute dog”, “a movie at 7pm is great”...
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5 Questions With Stephen Mickelsen, Mobile Application Architect For Humetrix iBlueButton
Chad Johnson | HL7Standards.com | September 9, 2013
[...] While not often considered a hot topic at the C-suite level, the government has taken some very interesting steps to encourage patients to become willing participants in their care, be it through ACO preventative care measures or healthcare standards. Read More »
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Amazon Digital Health Talent Grab: Box Exec Reportedly Joins Team
Chris Davies | Slash Gear | July 21, 2017
Amazon is quietly building up its digital health tech talent, reportedly poaching a healthcare exec from Box. The Seattle behemoth may be best known for its retail business, but in the background it has a growing footprint in all manner of health technology areas. This latest Amazon talent grab appears to be another move to shore up those...
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Harvard Docs: Time Is Right for Patient-Centered Health Repositories, Not Portals
Jonah Comstock | MobiHealthNews | January 26, 2016
A number of public and private initiatives have been launched over the years in the name of a personal health record for patients. But one way or another, they've all failed to gain traction, according to Drs. Isaac Kohane and Kenneth Mandl of the Harvard-affiliated Boston Children's Hospital, who published an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. The authors believe now might be the time to finally realize that ambition...
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How Hospital Administrators Are Obstructing Medical Record Exchange APIs
Bruce Fryer | Programmable Web | September 12, 2017
Medical record exchange is a major topic in healthcare, needed to improve healthcare outcomes (and reduce costs) for multiple patients receiving care at multiple sites. The discussion in the industry primarily focuses on technical challenges. In reality, many of the technical challenges have been addressed. A big factor in the inability of medical record exchange is the hospitals themselves. They block information and APIs. I’ve had two experiences with getting medical records...
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How Hospital Administrators Are Obstructing Medical Record Exchange APIs
Bruce Fryer | Programmable Web | September 12, 2017
Medical record exchange is a major topic in healthcare, needed to improve healthcare outcomes (and reduce costs) for multiple patients receiving care at multiple sites. The discussion in the industry primarily focuses on technical challenges. In reality, many of the technical challenges have been addressed. A big factor in the inability of medical record exchange is the hospitals themselves. They block information and APIs. I’ve had two experiences with getting medical records...
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Ignoring the Obvious: Major Health IT Organizations Put Aside Patients
Andy Oram | EMR & HIPAA | November 18, 2016
Frustrated stories from patients as well as health care providers repeatedly underline the importance of making a seismic shift in the storage and control of patient data. The current system leads to inaccessible records, patients who reach nursing homes or other treatment centers without information crucial to their care, excess radiation from repeated tests, massive data breaches that compromise thousands of patients at a time, and–most notably for quality–patients excluded from planning their own care.
A simple solution became available over the past 25 years with the widespread adoption of the Web, and has been rendered even easier by modern Software as a Service (SaaS): storing the entire record over the patient’s lifetime with the patient....
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Microsoft Taps Into mHealth
Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | August 21, 2014
With nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes -- and racking up $245 billion in costs each year -- many stakeholders have been looking for innovative ways to help those individuals better keep tabs on their condition. With its new mobile health project, Microsoft is the latest company to offer a diabetes management platform...
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NATE Creates Bridge of Trust Between Providers and Patients
Press Release |
National Association for Trusted Exchange |
March 4, 2015
The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) today announced that the new NATE Blue Button for Consumers (NBB4C) Trust Bundle officially went live this week. Inaugural participants in the NBB4C Trust Community include some of the most widely used consumer health applications, including: Read More »
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National Association for Trusted Exchange to administer Blue Button Plus Trust Bundles, initiating a second phase of NATE PHR Pilot
Press Release |
National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE), Humetrix |
June 24, 2014
The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) is pleased to begin supporting the Blue Button Plus Initiative to help patients and providers securely exchange electronic health information...NATE will administer the Consumer Trust Bundles, which are a way for participating patients and providers to indicate their involvement in the Blue Button Initiative.
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OSEHRA Update on VistA /eHMP Microsoft Azure Cloud Project
OSEHRA will be holding a webinar on Tuesday, May 16, to provide an update and discussion of the status of the development of a cloud-based version of VistA and eHMP running on Microsoft Azure. The project is sponsored by Microsoft and was announced two months ago in a statement by Don Hewitt, the Vice President of Business Operations of OSEHRA. Hewitt writes: One of our newest members, Microsoft Corporation, is sponsoring an open source project group to implement a proof of concept for VistA in the cloud...
Posted May 14, 2017 - 8:06pm by Roger A. Maduro
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Patient Generated Data Goes Mainstream
By John D. Halamka, MD | July 22, 2014
Patient generated healthcare data is the next key frontier in care coordination, population health, and clinical research. Although Beth Israel Deaconess has invested significantly in home care, care management, and telemedicine, it has not yet made the commitment to be a leader in patient generated healthcare data... Read More »
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Reducing My Digital Burden
By John D. Halamka, MD | August 14, 2016
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ZibdyHealth Sub-Optimal Data Exchange Standards
Andy Oram | EMR & EHR | May 10, 2016
Reformers in the health care field, quite properly, emphasize new payment models and culture changes to drive improvements in outcomes. But we can’t ignore the barriers that current technology puts in the way of well-meaning reformers. This article discusses one of the many companies offering a patient health record (PHR) and the ways they’ve adapted to a very flawed model for data storage and exchange. I had the honor to be contacted by Dr. Hirdey Bhathal, CEO/Founder of ZibdyHealth. Like many companies angling to develop a market for PHRs, ZibdyHealth offers a wide range of services to patients...
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