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 Giving Patients a Stronger Voice
Digital Health Frontier - (Thursday December 1, 2022) By John Halamka and Paul Cerrato – We can empower patients by providing high quality educational materials, encouraging medical self-care, and by finding ways to incorporate patient-generated health data into clinical practice.  This World AIDS Day – Reflecting on Health IT as a Tool for Advancing Health Equity and Ending the HIV Epidemic
Health IT Buzz - (Thursday December 1, 2022) December 1st is World AIDS Day, when we collectively remember those who died due to AIDS-related illnesses and renew our commitment to work together to end the HIV epidemic and support people with HIV. This year’s theme, “Putting Ourselves to the Test: Achieving Equity to End HIV,” emphasizes accountability and action. Collaborative, community-based, cross sector, and whole-of-government approaches that address clinical and social determinants of health (SDOH) are needed to support communities disproportionally affected by HIV and achieve national HIV/AIDS goals. Interoperable health IT, with health equity as a fundamental design feature, is an important tool to enable these efforts.Health IT… |
 STAR HIE Program Helps Unlock Powerful Public Health Data in West Virginia
Health IT Buzz - (Tuesday November 29, 2022) ONC launched the Strengthening the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange (STAR HIE) Program in 2020 using funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The program was expanded in 2021 to increase support for efforts to improve vaccination data sharing between jurisdictional Immunization Information Systems (IIS) and HIEs. The West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN) was among the 22 recipients that received a combined $20 million in funds from ONC via the CARES Act.We sat down with WVHIN’s Executive Director, Sonia Chambers, to learn how the STAR HIE Program helped…  Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Healthcare by Stanford University
Dr. Hazem Eloraby - (Tuesday November 29, 2022) Machine learning and artificial intelligence hold the potential to transform healthcare and open up a world of incredible promise. But we will never realize the potential of these technologies unless all stakeholders have basic competencies in both healthcare and machine learning concepts and principles. |
 OpenHIE
Dr. Hazem Eloraby - (Tuesday November 29, 2022) The OpenHIE community of practice formed in early 2013, evolving from the work that initially began in 2009 to establish the Rwandan Health Information Exchange (RHIE). As the benefits of the approach adopted in Rwanda became apparent, interest gathered from other countries looking to apply similar architectural tactics within their environments. Today, OpenHIE’s approaches, reference […]  Digital Transformation – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 102
Healthcare IT Today - (Monday November 28, 2022) For the 102nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are diving into digital transformation. We begin by examining what digital transformation means to us and what we think it means to others. Next we look at the areas that needs to be transformed the most and what areas need it the least. Then we dive into the barriers that are present in the field of digital transformation and the effect they’ve had on the field. Lastly, we discuss who we think will provide the most transformation. What does Digital… |
 Vijay Kedar, Tomorrow Health, on restoring healthcare in the home
The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health - (Monday November 28, 2022) Subscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Apple, Spotify, or Twitter.Vijay Kedar, CEO & Co-Founder, Tomorrow HealthIn this episode, I sat down with Vijay Kedar, CEO and Co-Founder, of…  Nick Desai, Renee, on creating a personal health assistant for elderly and underserved patients
The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health - (Monday November 21, 2022) Subscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Substack, Twitter, Apple, or Spotify.In this episode, I sat down with Nick Desai, CEO and Founder of Renee. Founded in 2021,… |
 #ProjectHealthViz – The 20 Biggest health data breaches in the United States
Dr. Hazem Eloraby - (Saturday November 19, 2022) #ProjectHealthViz was a great initiative to create a community of Tableau in the Healthcare field. Many great dashboards have been created during the time the project was running. I’ll be bookmarking a few here on MediFormatica. While the data set may now be outdated, I’m still interested in the visualizations themselves.  The Algorithmically Underserved Need Our Attention
Digital Health Frontier - (Tuesday November 15, 2022) By John Halamka and Paul Cerrato -Three patient populations are underrepresented in the AI models currently being developed. There are several practical solutions to the problem. |
