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 How Technology Is Improving Healthcare
The Healthcare Guys - (Sunday February 12, 2023) The world of healthcare is rapidly changing, and technology is playing an increasingly important role in the industry. From smart devices that can detect symptoms early on to remote patient monitoring, technology is allowing healthcare professionals to provide better care than ever before. Let’s take a look at some of how technology is revolutionizing healthcare today.  2021 Annual Meeting: Data Tagging & Consent of Sensitive Health Data (Stakeholder Led Efforts)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT - (Sunday February 12, 2023) March 29, 2021Data Tagging and consent are important for improving interoperability while protecting privacy and choice. Data tagging can support various use cases including for social determinants of health data (SDOH) use and interoperability. Multidisciplinary, stakeholder led activities are focused on advancing data tagging adoption and use, in part to help eliminate disparities and improve health equity, and to support the interoperability of sensitive health data including, in certain instances, for SDOH. This session will inform attendees of current ONC and external stakeholder activities for moving sensitive health data to support holistic person centered health. Presenters will share progress on different… |
 Mental Health for Teens with Ken Baum
eHealth Radio Network - (Sunday February 12, 2023) Ken Baum, a best-selling author of numerous life-changing books and a successful performance expert and author of his new book “The Mental Edge for Teens: How to thrive in school, sports, and life in a world of chaos, bullies, and ever-changing values” joins eHealth Radio and the Mental Health Channel.  How Technology Integration Supports Precision Medicine
HealthTech Magazine - (Saturday February 11, 2023) Precision Health Can Be Applied to All DisciplinesThe University of California, Irvine, has integrated its technology to create targeted health and wellness strategies for patients. In February 2022, the university launched the Institute for Precision Health, an interdisciplinary campuswide initiative to develop solutions in precision medicine. A future brick-and-mortar home for IPH will let data scientists collaborate with clinicians to develop analytics tools. |
 Healthcare systems could face new DPRK ransomware tactics
Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 10, 2023) Government agencies from the United States and the Republic of Korea are highlighting new ransomware tactics they’ve seen, which they say are used to conceal the affiliation of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea hackers working to stage attacks against U.S. and South Korean healthcare organizations and critical infrastructure.WHY IT MATTERS  CDS Coalition requests FDA rescind final decision support guidance
Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 10, 2023) The CDS Coalition is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pull back on its clinical decision support guidance in order to ensure that the agency better balances its regulatory oversight with the healthcare sector’s need for innovation, while comporting with the statutory language of the 21st Century Cures Act. ‘Flagrant’ disregard for Congressional law and intent |
 Why NLP can only succeed in healthcare if it caters to caregivers
Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 10, 2023) Natural language processing, or NLP, is a branch of artificial intelligence that enables machine understanding of human language. In recent years, NLP has become part of consumer products and performs with a sometimes surprising degree of accuracy.Virtual assistants use NLP to understand spoken questions like, “What’s the weather like today?” They can contextualize the meaning of the question, and then use data from online sources to reply with a meaningful response.  HIMSSCast: The Quintuple Aim – why health equity is a critical addition
Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 10, 2023) HIMSS23 European Health ConferenceSave the date -Build Better Care Outcomes : HIMSS23 Europe will address Europe’s workforce crisis and other healthcare issues, and serve as a focal point for pan-European collaborations: the European Health Data Space, Gravitate Health and Label2Enable.7 – 9 June, 2023 | Lisbon, Portugal… |
 How Technology Streamlines Referral Management, Specialty Care Access
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 10, 2023) – On paper, the patient referral process can sound almost like a prescription. One biopsy. One second opinion. One visit to a specialist. In reality, referral management is a logistical and patient experience challenge, one that requires streamlined care coordination from start to finish. Getting a referral isn’t uncommon. According to a 2018 report from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation, there are nearly 100 million subspecialty referral requests made from ambulatory centers each year. Despite referrals being common, they can still be jarring for the patient. Patients receiving referrals for mammograms might not be focused…  Community Clinics Look to EHR Implementation to up Patient Experience
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 10, 2023) – Texas-based Legacy Community Health Clinic has announced it will transition from its outdated legacy system and move forward with an EHR implementation that will drive the patient experience while improving patient data access. The project, funded by a $1 million federal grant, will connect the health clinic’s 55 locations through one system and provide over 200,000 patients with continual data access. Providing patients access to their medical records was challenging for the community health providers, who previously had to fax health information. Faxed patient health data often sits on the fax machine for hours or even days before it gets… |
