Editor's Note: Damian Mingle is a data scientist with Nashville-based health analytics firm WPC Healthcare and has significant experience mapping the West Nile virus for communities struggling to contain the mosquito population that carries it.
The World Health organization recently declared a public health emergency in connection with the Zika virus outbreak. No locally transmitted Zika virus cases have been reported in the continental United States, though a recently diagnosed Virginia
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Can A National Patient Identifier Solve Interoperability Challenges?
Editor's Note: Thomas Grove is a Principal of Consulting and Compliance Services at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems. As a healthcare management executive with 20+ years of experience, Thomas has extensive expertise in strategic assessments and planning, revenue cycle management, and process improvement.
Many EHR components were developed as early as 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until 2009 that the federal Meaningful Use incentive program precipitated wide-spread
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Connected Health Business Models for Smart Home Platform Players
Editor's Note: Harry Wang is the Director of Health & Mobile Product Research at Parks Associates. He is also the founder and lead analyst of Parks Associates’ digital health research program since its inception in 2006.
The smart home industry focuses on consumer use cases that charge a recurring monthly fee as the default revenue model for service providers. Equipment manufacturers usually earn revenues from product sales. Smart home platform providers can offer a
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New Crossroads: Interoperability, Meaningful Use, Transformation, and Our Future
Editor's Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems
Interoperability.
Achieving it is a predominant theme in healthcare today, and a priority agenda
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Interoperability: The Key to Uniting Healthcare’s Walled Gardens
Editor's Note: Aashima Gupta is the VP of Healthcare Digital Transformation at Apigee leading provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. In her current role she is driving strategy and execution for the healthcare vertical at a API and analytics startup.
I still struggle to get simple, ubiquitous access to my health records. Trying to get my health history every time I see a specialist, giving my doctor to access my lab records, and even the extraordinarily
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How Digital Health Startups Can Leverage Intellectual Property
Editor's Note: This post is co-written by Aaron Capron and Robert Wells, Partners at global IP law firm Finnegan. Aaron Capron focuses his practice on patent prosecution, post-grant considerations, portfolio management and pre-litigation strategies. Rob Wells focuses his practice on patent litigation, patent prosecution, portfolio management, and client counseling involving various intellectual property issues.
One of the fastest growing segments of startups is digital health startups,
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7 Essential Steps for Safely Moving Patient Data to the Cloud
Editor's Note: Salo Fajer is the Chief Technology Officer at Digital Guardian. He is responsible for driving the company’s strategic vision and core innovation efforts while also overseeing product management, product marketing, and product content development.
It is well known that cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) technology brings many benefits to healthcare firms, including improved mobility, immediate access to information and streamlined record keeping. Unfortunately, these
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Achieving HIPAA Compliance as a Business Associate
Editor’s Note: This post is co-written by David Wong, Managing Director of Bulger Partners, an advisory firm that specializes in healthcare IT and Mike Kavis, VP/Principal Architect for Cloud Technology Partners.
In 2009, the HITECH Act mandated that not only covered entities but also business associates would be subject to periodic audits as a means to ensure that both are complying with HIPAA Rules. The first phase of these audits, taking place between 2011 and 2012 and involving 115
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“Data as a Drug” Will Define The Next Decade of Medicine
Editor's Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD.
Medical science is now producing gene-editing technology, implantables, and pills with digestible microchips. The plethora of technologies will sense our body signals and can help predict and prevent illness. Increasingly, humans are becoming machines. We already have wearables, but we will soon have a
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7 Factors Influencing How Consumers Will Dictate the Doctor Experience in 2016
Editor's Note: Jim Prendergast is a digital health entrepreneur, and the CEO and Co-Founder of HealthiestYou, a telehealth and wellness delivery innovator. Jim recently led the company through a $30 million round of growth funding from Frontier Capital.
The healthcare industry is experiencing a new driver at the wheel. In 2016 this will become more apparent than ever. It’s you. And, it’s me. It is in fact, all of us who want less-hassle healthcare access, cost containment and a complete
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