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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) - Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT/ Videos | |
 | 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...
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Mental Health for Teens with Ken BaumeHealth Radio Network - (Sunday February 12, 2023) - eHealth Radio Network/ Podcasts | |
 | 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. Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Ken Baum discuss the following: What do teens need to learn about their mental health? Is this why you wrote the book Mental Edge for Teens? What is the impact that this book is making, and why do you want to give away 100,000 books? Tell us...
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How Technology Integration Supports Precision MedicineHealthTech Magazine - (Saturday February 11, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ HealthTech Magazine | |
 | 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. “Precision health is truly an amalgamation of multiple critical pillars. Understanding the multidisciplinary nature of this work is really how IPH came about,” says Dr. Peter Chang, assistant professor in residence at UCI’s Department of Radiological Sciences. He formed...
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Healthcare systems could face new DPRK ransomware tacticsHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 10, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | 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 The new cybersecurity advisory, Ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure fund DPRK malicious cyber activities, details both North Korea's historically and recently observed tactics, techniques and procedures and indicators of compromise. The additional observed TTPs "span phases from acquiring and purchasing infrastructure to concealing DPRK affiliation," according to the United States National Security Agency, the Federal...
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CDS Coalition requests FDA rescind final decision support guidanceHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 10, 2023) - AI/ Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | 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 The coalition's stakeholders – clinical decision support software developers, patient advocacy organizations, clinical societies, healthcare providers and healthcare payers – say the FDA's guidance exceeds Congress’s statutory definitions of what is considered CDS and threatens to undermine lawmakers' goals. "The Office of the National Coordinator for...
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Why NLP can only succeed in healthcare if it caters to caregiversHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 10, 2023) - AI/ Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | 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. Medical NLP has long been a topic of research and development, since it contains significant potential for uncovering meaningful insights from unstructured medical text. This presents huge opportunities for healthcare providers, clinical...
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HIMSSCast: The Quintuple Aim – why health equity is a critical additionHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 10, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | 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...
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How Technology Streamlines Referral Management, Specialty Care AccessDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 10, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | – 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...
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Community Clinics Look to EHR Implementation to up Patient ExperienceDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 10, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | – 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...
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4 technologies shaping the future of healthcareThe Healthcare Guys - (Friday February 10, 2023) - AI/ Frequent Updates/ The Healthcare Guys | |
 | Technological innovation is the key to improving human living standards. This is especially true in healthcare, which is why research is constantly being done to discover ways that up-and-coming technology can be implemented. In this article, we’ll explore four technologies that are shaping the future of healthcare.Artificial intelligenceMachine learning is being increasingly applied across a wide variety of industries, including healthcare. With the ability to quickly and accurately extract patterns from data using algorithms, artificial intelligence is able to sift through information more efficiently than healthcare professionals. Moreover, artificial intelligence programs can process symptoms and patient information to suggest possible diagnoses. A...
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