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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Healthcare: Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object
Healthcare has been the embodiment of the irresistible force paradox, a classic paradox formulated as "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?" We know that technology and empowerment of the individual have been the drivers of immense change in virtually every corner of our lives...except healthcare.
There are many efforts ranging from startups to convening thought leaders at events to public and private sector initiatives meant to change this dynamic. It’s clear it
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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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Patient-Data Pipeline: The Missing Healthcare IT System Link
Part of today’s complexity in healthcare stems from the way our healthcare IT systems have emerged. There are multiple entry points for patients into the healthcare system, from a relationship with a primary care physician to the sporadic, disconnected and random interaction with emergency departments, urgent care and wellness clinics.
Based on current technology and the overall nature of the beast, it is highly doubtful that a single point of entry into the healthcare delivery system will
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As Health IT Matures, Security Approaches Must Mature With It
Not that long ago, healthcare worried mostly about the physical loss of personal health information (PHI) by way of a lost thumb drive, a stolen laptop, some misplaced paper files. These were the primary concerns in HIMSS initial security survey, published in 2008. It wasn’t until five years later, in 2013, that the largest healthcare security breaches came from cyberattacks instead of lost or stolen devices.
So, is it encouraging to see how far the rapid pace of change has carried health IT
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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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Meaningful Use Is Dead, Long Live Something Better!
At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Mr. Andrew Slavitt, acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),announced on January 11th that “The meaningful use program as it has existed will now effectively be over, and replaced with something better”, and later clarified on Twitter that:
https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/686718314517663744
Meaningful Use is dead. Just like that. No apologies. No nothing. As someone who’s been lamenting
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