GuardDog Telehealth admitted it misrepresented its services to access patients’ health information, marking the first major concession in Epic’s lawsuit against Health Gorilla and other defendants accused of exploiting interoperability networks. The broader case is still ongoing.

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Meeting people where they are with personalized AI-powered patient outreach could help traditional healthcare move beyond reactive medicine.

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The more the use of AI in healthcare and healthcare research becomes mainstream, the more the risks associated with AI-powered analysis evolve — and the greater the potential for breakdowns in consumer trust.

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The Silicon Valley startup formerly known as Ciitizen relaunched as Citizen Health. The company seeks to empower patients with access to their complete health history — and it’s starting off by focusing on patients with rare diseases.

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Following a months-long dispute, data platform Particle Health filed an antitrust lawsuit against Epic, alleging that the EHR giant is using its dominance in the market to prevent competition in the payer platform space. Particle believes the lawsuit is an “unprecedented challenge” to Epic’s market power, while Epic thinks the startup’s claims are “baseless.”

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Responsible procurement and handling of data and digital marketing insights by hospitals can generate useful information to improve patient wellness and operational efficiency without compromising compliance.

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[Sponsored] This on-demand webinar explores the impact of poor data quality and methods to improve patient data quality. It highlights technology that can improve workflows to help reduce workforce burnout.

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[Sponsored] The webinar, sponsored by Intelligent Medical Objects, will explore the impact of poor data quality and methods to improve patient data quality. It will also highlight healthcare industry employee burnout and how to improve retention.

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Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic recently announced a partnership focused on generative AI — the health system will be deploying a new HIPAA-compliant Google Cloud service called Gen App Builder. The tool enables providers to create a search system for their data, equipped with conversational features powered by Google’s large language models.

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Zus Health — Jonathan Bush’s health data platform that provides patient information at the point of care — recently closed a $40 million funding round. It also announced a partnership with Elation Health, a company that sells its EHR and other technology solutions to primary care providers. Elation will be integrating Zus’ API into its own data collaboration systems.

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Putting data into the hands of participants is an important step in changing the traditional clinical trial paradigm. It fits in amongst the goal of running nimble and patient-centered studies. But, without legislation, it’s doubtful that pharma companies will give up ownership of participant data out of sheer goodwill.

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Hospitals go to great lengths to deliver exceptional care to their patients. That commitment should extend to the digital space. By making your inventory visible, breaking down data silos, and building a better patient experience, providers will have happier patients and healthier margins.

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The healthcare industry is under constant threat from cyberattacks. By adopting the measures identified in this article, healthcare organizations can help to improve their cybersecurity and mitigate risk.

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Report majority of healthcare organizations did not feel they could produce an accurate 360-degree view of their patients, despite the requirement of knowing “who is who” to improve patient outcomes, increase profitability, and speed up initiatives, including digital transformation as well as population health management.

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UBC partners with Seqster to leverage the latter’s technology to allow patients to gather their own medical records for decentralized clinical trials. This could help speed up clinical trial enrollment.

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Data can liberate patients, but as a healthcare system we need to recognize the additional steps necessary in order to make them trust its value. That can only happen when the patient is able to say, “I understand.”

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The health system and technology giant are teaming up to create a data analytics platform and tools that support workflow management. Google Cloud will gain access to the massive trove of patient information gathered at HCA’s 184 hospitals in accordance with predetermined privacy rules.

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A new report, from cybersecurity firm Fortified Health Security, shows that nearly 200 more data breaches occurred in the first 10 months of 2020 compared with the year prior — around 80% of which targeted providers.

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The pharmaceutical company will use Seqster’s system to speed up onboarding for clinical trials and to improve patient engagement.

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The value of digital health data is as vast as its volume – but only if it can be unlocked, managed, and ultimately shared for the greater good.

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Taking a proactive, data-driven approach to identity matching and resolution would help prepare organizations to act with confidence during public health emergencies

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Driven by business interests, many healthcare organizations continue to use the pretext of patient privacy all too easily, to keep data locked away. It’s time to review what this generation of patients really want.

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How has thinking around cybersecurity in healthcare evolved, and what challenges remain? How is the healthcare industry facing down cybersecurity threats internally and externally? 

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With data-blocking rules expected to go into effect soon, patients should finally be able to access and freely share their health data. But should those rules also include privacy protections for those that opt to share their data with health apps? 

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An error in a database configuration made protected internal files temporarily available online and visible via search.

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Dubbed PatientSphere, Open Health Network’s platform ingests patient data from sources like EHR records, mobile health applications, wearable devices and programs like Apple HealthKit into one dashboard.

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Experimental models such as virtual clinical trials are designed with patient-generated data in mind.

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Data visualization is the key to helping healthcare providers organize, understand, and use data to its fullest potential without having the compromise the quality of their patient care.

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Health information exchanges are now focused on creating nothing less than the Patient-Centered Data Home accessible nationally. However, before doing so they must ask themselves some hard questions.

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To create an outcomes-based healthcare system, one in which patients receive consistently appropriate care, the business of health and science must link the public and the private new industry models.

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