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9th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference Features Information Technologies Inspiring Consumer Engagement and Behavior Change
The Ninth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference & Exhibition, organized by The Center for Business Innovation (TCBI), will focus on technology-enabled participatory medicine connecting everyone in the care continuum interested in inspiring consumer engagement and facilitating accountable care. The conference will take place at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco, CA, on July 19-20, 2012.
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Changes In The Health Care System Driven By Self-Service And DIY Health
Health care is migrating from the bricks-and-mortar doctor’s office or care clinic to the person him or herself at home and on-the-go–where people live, work, play, and pray. As people take on more do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to everyday life–investing money on financial services websites, booking airline tickets and hotel rooms online, and securing dinner reservations via OpenTable–many also ask why they can’t have more convenient access to health care, like emailing doctors and looking into lab test results in digital personal health records.
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HIMSS13: A Fork in the Road - How Patients & Payment Are Forcing 'Open' Health IT
This year feels like a fork in the road at HIMSS13, with disruptive forces of patients, digital health, mobility and open standards driving innovation and renewed energy at the annual conference...Without transparency (in health IT and health finance) and data liquidity, bending the cost curve will continue to elude the U.S. health system. At the recently concluded annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in New Orleans, 34,696 got to experience a yin and yang vibe that embodies the disruption that the health care IT industry is undergoing. That is, the full-on face-off between developers of health IT that have been long-closed to data liquidity and those vendors innovating on open standards and cloud-based platforms. Read More »
Open Source Health announces launch of the first Women’s Precision Medicine Platform in Atlanta, USA
Open Source Health Inc....a cloud based precision medicine platform that puts control into the hands of women to educate, advocate and collaborate on their own healthcare is pleased to announce the launch of the myAva Precision Medicine Platform with it’s first cohort of women in Atlanta, GA. “After 2 years of development we are finally set to deliver precision medicine to women with PCOS” says Sonya Satveit, CEO of Open Source Health Inc. “By providing an in-depth molecular insight of each woman, myAva will help achieve a new understanding of PCOS and has the potential to provide precision treatment programs customized to each woman’s unique molecular makeup.”
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Participatory Medicine: Your Patient Is Your Partner
According to the Society for Participatory Medicine, 90 percent of health care takes place outside the doctor’s office. Read More »
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Where did the issue of health data exchange disappear to?
There has been extensive talk about the scandals at the VA and remedies for them, including the political and financial ramifications of partial privatization. Republicans have suggested it for some time, but for the solution to be picked up by socialist Independent Senator Bernie Sanders clinches the matter. What no one has pointed out yet, however–and what makes this development relevant to the Datapalooza–is that such a reform will make the free flow of patient information between providers more crucial than ever. Read More »
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9th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference
The Ninth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference & Exhibition, organized by The Center for Business Innovation (TCBI), will focus on technology-enabled participatory medicine connecting everyone in the care continuum interested in inspiring consumer engagement and facilitating accountable care. The conference will take place at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco, CA, on July 19-20, 2012.
"Healthcare is reaching the defining moment when patients and care providers are clearly seeing the value of sharing health information to provide accountable care,” said Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA, principal, Better Health Technologies, LLC, a conference chairperson, advisory board member and keynote speaker. Kuraitis added a message to the attendees to “explore how this shift paves the way for Healthcare Unbound technologies and business models"
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