Tag: data sharing

January 9, 2018

While nearly all states are now reporting to a national repository for Medicaid data, the data are not sufficient to provide effective oversight of the program, according to a new audit by the Government Accountability Office. Data from the Transformed […]

January 5, 2018

An emerging company has a simple but lofty mission—making patients the custodians of their own medical information, able to share it with any providers on an as-needed basis. Ciitizen is part of a personal mission of its founder, Anil Sethi, […]

December 19, 2017

Recently introduced legislation in the House of Representatives seeks to reduce patient frustration in dealing with a variety of interactions with the nation’s healthcare providers as they try to access their health records. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, (R-Wash.) introduced the […]

December 8, 2017

The Department of Veterans Affairs will spend $10 billion over 10 years to implement a new Cerner electronic health record to replace its decades-old legacy system. By comparison, the Department of Defense in 2015 awarded a $4.3 billion contract to […]

December 6, 2017

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to help stem the tide of opioid overdoses nationwide through its public health data collection and reporting, as well improvements to state-run electronic databases for tracking prescriptions. CDC is “funding an […]

December 4, 2017

Electronic health records are a critical piece of the massive dataset that the National Institutes of Health intends to gather from a national cohort of 1 million or more Americans, as part of the Precision Medicine Initiative’s All of Us […]

November 14, 2017

Physicians are overwhelmed by a tsunami of health data that has little clinical meaning. However, the American Medical Association wants to help doctors harness that information to improve patient outcomes. Speaking at this past weekend’s opening session of the 2017 […]

October 27, 2017

President Donald Trump on Thursday officially declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency under federal law. Industry groups were quick to support the executive action to address the crisis, while calling on the White House and Congress to […]

October 25, 2017

The Department of Veterans Affairs will start to install a new Cerner electronic health record system about a year and a half after the VA negotiates a contract with the vendor. However, it will take the agency seven to eight […]

October 17, 2017

The American Medical Association has launched a new digital platform designed to improve, organize and share health information among healthcare stakeholders through a common data model. The Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI), which is open to all organizations, has several […]

October 13, 2017

A five-year, $25 million grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science has been awarded to the Oregon Health & Science University to lead a consortium of universities and research organizations in creating a new National Center for Data […]

March 31, 2017

The importance of health data management really hit home for me last year when I woke up from knee surgery with discharge instructions and a packet of surgery photos taped to my chest. “Please bring this to your physician on […]

February 21, 2017

A project at Harvard Medical School funded by the National Institutes of Health is leveraging HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard and OAuth 2.0 security profiles to enable individuals to access their health data and share it with […]

December 12, 2016

As providers seek to transition from fee-for-service to value-based care, they are encountering significant challenges, including limited access to claims data, risk-based insurance contracts, as well as investment capital. That’s the finding of a new survey of its members conducted […]

November 16, 2016

If the United States is going to improve cancer-related outcomes, it must overcome serious policy and technical barriers preventing the country from achieving a nationwide, interoperable health IT system. That’s among the findings of the President’s Cancer Panel, which issued […]

August 26, 2016

As the healthcare industry transitions to value-based care, urgent care companies and health systems are forging formal business partnerships and then facilitating those relationships through the exchange of electronic patient data. The partnerships have advantages for both parties. Health systems […]

August 25, 2016

Apple’s recent acquisition of health startup Gliimpse is the latest in a long series of strategic moves by the Cupertino, Calif.-based company to capture mindshare and market share in a healthcare industry increasingly reliant on data. News of the tech […]

August 23, 2016

Earlier this month, a consortium of 282 clinical trials doctors, in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, threw down the gauntlet against data sharing. Under the misleading title “Towards fairness in data sharing,” these scientists, who label […]

February 5, 2016

Infographic created by TÜV SÜD looks at the safety/security challenges that manufacturers of connected medical devices now face, from the mass exposure of medical records to the sinister hacking of a patients’ pacemaker. Read More on HitConsultant