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Move health data forward challenge: Giving patients control

May 19, 2016 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Move health data forward challenge: Giving patients control

Giving individuals control to share their health data is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare. "Individual control of personal health data will 'tear down the wall' that's blocking health care transformation," according to Sumit Nagpal, CEO of LumiraDx. He says that if ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare Standards, Integration Insights, Interview, Patient Engagement, PHR Tagged With: API, Caroline Coy, developers, health data, HEART WG, interoperability, Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, ONC, ONC Challenge, PGHD, RESTful API, Standards

The Healthcare IT Quote Of 2015

December 1, 2015 By Dan Munro 5 Comments

The Healthcare IT Quote Of 2015

"The simple narrative of our age ‒ that computers improve the performance of every industry they touch ‒ turns out to have been magical thinking when it comes to healthcare. In our sliver of the world, we’re learning, computers make some things better, some things worse, and they ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare IT Tagged With: Bob Wachter, patient generated health data, PGHD, quote of the year

SMART on FHIR: Inter-app-ability

August 20, 2015 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

SMART on FHIR: Inter-app-ability

Recent research by peer60 shows that more than half of community hospitals are dissatisfied with their EHRs due to poor usability and a lack of functionality. Dissatisfaction is also high among physicians, as evident in a recent survey by Rand. Results from the peer60 ...

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Filed Under: EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 FHIR, HL7 Integration, Patient Engagement, Workflow Tagged With: Alistair Erskine MD, API, APIs, app platform, application programming interface, apps, design thinking, EHR, Electronic Health Record, FHIR, FJORD, Geisinger, health technology, health technology development, healthcare innovation, inter-app-ability, interoperability, IoT, Josh Mandel, MedAppTech, Patient Engagement, patient-generated data, PGHD, sensors, SMART Growth Chart App, SMART on FHIR, usability, user-centered design, wearables

Will Apple Watch Deliver Form and Function? Time Will Tell

March 3, 2015 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Will Apple Watch Deliver Form and Function? Time Will Tell

The Apple Watch is on the cover of the March issue of women's health and fitness magazine, Self, worn by Victoria's Secret model Candice Swanepoel. There is also a 12-page marketing spread for Apple Watch in Vogue. While Apple Watch hopes to be the "it" fashion accessory of ...

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Filed Under: healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, mHealth Tagged With: "Quantified Self", Apple, Apple Health, Apple Watch, apps, Candice Swanepoel, HealthKit, LG, LG Urbane, LG Watch Urbane LTE, mHealth, PGHD, Self Magazine, WebOS

Should Physicians or Patients be Responsible for Health History Accuracy?

January 16, 2014 By Jennifer Thew, RN, MSJ 2 Comments

Should Physicians or Patients be Responsible for Health History Accuracy?

A few months back, I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours speaking with health data activist Regina Holliday. Regina has a long and complex story but, to sum it up, her husband Fred was diagnosed with and eventually succumbed to metastatic cancer in a matter of months. ...

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Filed Under: e-patient, EHR, EMR, Health care, Meaningful Use, Patient Engagement Tagged With: medical errors, patient care, PGHD, regina holliday

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

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November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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