The Department of Health and Humans Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the Phase 2 winners of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge. Winning submissions will now move on to the challenge’s last phase to develop applications that will allow individuals to share their personal health information safely and securely with their health care providers, family members or other caregivers...
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What If EMRs Worked Like Wikipedia?
Nick Dawson | The Health Care Blog | February 5, 2014
I’ve been thinking about EMRs, electronic medical records, lately. It’s a subject, despite some professional experience, I don’t feel particularly close to...And, as a patient I see them largely as an opaque blob of data about me with a placating window in the form of a portal.
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Axial Aims To Give Power To The Patients
John Andrews | Healthcare IT News | January 21, 2014
There have been many ideas proposed as solutions for reducing costly hospital readmissions, but one concept that hasn’t gotten much attention over the years is patient empowerment – the practice of letting people take control of their healthcare. Read More »
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Benefits of Patient-Generated Health Data, Patient Engagement
Sara Health | Patient Engagement HIT | March 15, 2016
Between improving chronic disease management, boosting the Precision Medicine Initiative, and driving patient satisfaction, patient-generated health data has many healthcare benefits. Through the current health technology boom amongst patients and the near-ubiquitous adoption of EHRs amongst providers, patient-generated health data has become an important aspect of patient engagement...
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Blue Button Codeathon: Unlocking Data And Empowering Patients
Maya Uppaluru | Health IT Buzz | November 8, 2013
Anyone who has struggled to remember the name of their medication or the date of their child’s vaccination, while juggling multiple doctor appointments for family members, knows firsthand how important it is that patients have access to their health information. We think our Blue Button initiative can help. Read More »
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Doctors’ reminders help keep people more engaged in their health care
Press Release |
University of California, Los Angeles |
February 11, 2016
A study led by Dr. John Mafi, a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has found that a simple note from a primary care doctor can be a critical way to keep patients involved in their own health care. The research, published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, examined a growing national program that provides patients with easy online access to their doctors’ notes about their appointments. The program, OpenNotes, began in 2010, when 105 primary care physicians invited nearly 14,000 of their patients to view their electronic notes about their clinic visits. The initiative was intended to better engage patients in their own care and improve communication between patients and their doctors.
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Evolving Patient Rights In The Research And Delivery Of Health Care
Andy Oram | Health 2.0 News | June 19, 2014
...As the idea reached the proscenium this month at the Health Datapalooza, a conference founded by the US Department of Health and Human Services and now attracting more than 2,000 people, patient empowerment marks its entry into the mainstream...
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Halamka on China's Expanding Healthcare System
By John D. Halamka, MD | October 22, 2014
On Monday and Tuesday I met with government, industry, and academic stakeholders in Qingdao and Shenzhen China to discuss healthcare technology, patient empowerment, and process improvement in the rapidly expanding Chinese healthcare system. Over the past few years, I’ve watched the Chinese government gradually change policy - from promoting a fully public healthcare system, to limited pilots of private facilities, to embracing public/private partnerships... Read More »
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Health Care Initiatives Thrive With The Help Of Crowdfunding
Alexandros Stefanakis | Launcht | July 16, 2013
MedStartr is an emerging player in the crowdfunding healthcare revolution. When founder Alex Fair realized that the large crowdfunding sites did not permit healthcare projects, he created MedStartr to bring healthcare solutions out of the idea box and into the marketplace... Read More »
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HHS Announces the Move Health Data Forward Phase 2 Challenge Winners
Press Release |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
February 21, 2017
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Making Patients The 'Hub' Of Their Own Healthcare
Erin McCann | Government Health IT | September 16, 2014
National Health IT Week is officially underway in Washington, DC, and it's only fitting that interoperability and patient engagement are the primary themes being discussed...
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O'Reilly Report Explores Open Solutions to Health IT
By Andy Oram | April 6, 2014
Although many programmers and public interest advocates come to the concepts of free software, standards, open data, and transparent institutions out of idealism, modern businesses and governments are being driven to these same solutions out of the practical need to meet high expectations with diminishing resources. The ways in which the health care field has been incrementally adopting these paths are the subject of a new report, written by me and released by O'Reilly Media, called The Information Technology Fix for Health: Barriers and Pathways to the Use of Information Technology for Better Health Care. Read More »
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On the Importance of Patient Empowerment and Open Source: A Medicine X panel Weighs In
Jennifer Huber | Stanford Medicine News | September 16, 2016
It’s your body, so you should have access to all of your medical data, right? This morning at the Medicine X session on data and devices, I learned that liberating your own medical data — or devices — will probably not be so simple. The conversation was started by Ben West, a software engineer and co-founder of the Nightscout Project, which supports the creation of open-source technology for people with Type 1 diabetes...
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The Future Of Health Care Access
John A. MacDonald, Anita M. McGahan, and Will Mitchell | Stanford Social Innovation Review | October 18, 2013
Traditional health care is a hands-on, brick-and-mortar affair. But across the developing world, a wave of technology-driven innovation signals the emergence of a compelling new model. Read More »
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Where HIMSS Can Take Health 2.0
Andy Oram | EMR and HIPAA | March 16, 2017
I was quite privileged to talk to the leaders of Health 2.0, Dr. Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt, in the busy days after their announced merger with HIMSS. I was revving to talk to them because the Health 2.0 events I have attended have always been stimulating and challenging. I wanted to make sure that after their incorporation into the HIMSS empire they would continue to push clinicians as well as technologists to re-evaluate their workflows, goals, and philosophies...
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Why Should Hackers Have Easier Access to EHRs than Patients?
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | January 3, 2017
In a Jan. 2 New York Times opinion piece, Eric Topol, MD, professor at the Scripps Research Institute, and Kathryn Haun, a federal prosecutor who teaches a course on cybercrime at Stanford Law, take aim at what they call "quite a paradox": the fact that most patients still can't readily access their own health data, even as there's "an epidemic of cybercriminals and thieves hacking and stealing this most personal information"...
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