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The rights to privacy and citizen protection - A conflict between privacy and the public good?
Privacy remains an important determinant of how technology is deployed, even during these times of COVID-19, argues HIMSS ' chief clinical officer Dr. Charles Alessi. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 6, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Government & amp; Policy Interoperability Privacy amp; Security Source Type: blogs

Managing COVID-19 in a perfect world
How far could we have been in managing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic if we used the tools available to us such as data sharing, genomics, apps, and pandemic warning systems, instead of waiting to implement them on a rainy day? Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and HIMSS Future50 leader asks why we waited so long? (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 1, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Government & amp; Policy Patient Engagement Workflow Source Type: blogs

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 121 | Takeover Edition ft. Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we have a digital audience! Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce join us as guests on Episode 121. Jess asks me about a lot of movement in the telehealth space with Medici raising $24 million in a Series B, Tomorrow Health launching with a $7.5M seed round for in-home care, Decoded Health launching an AI telehealth app and IDC Telemed buying Ilum. Also HIMSS launches a new Digital Health Indicator to help hospitals judge their digital health readiness — and don’t get Jess started on their new definition of digital health. —Matthew Holt The post Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 121 | ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Eugene Borukhovich Jim Joyce Medici Tomorrow Health Source Type: blogs

Reinventing Clinical Decision Support
In our latest book,Reinventing Clinical Decision Support: Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Diagnostic Reasoning, Paul Cerrato and I explore the promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning for improving clinicians ’ ability to make more informed diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 2:“AI is a once-in-a-generation transformative technology. As such, expect its impact to be on the scale of the advent of electricity or the Internet,” says Jean-Claude Saghbini, Wolters Kluwer Health.(1)“Artificial intelligence and machine learning are set to transform healthcare....
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - April 24, 2020 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Cybersecurity in the time of COVID-19
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of cybersecurity and digital transformation, argues Dr Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer at HIMSS. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - April 17, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Privacy & amp; Security Source Type: blogs

Let ’ s Talk About a National Patient Identifier
What happens when you bring an amazing group of experts to talk about an important topic? Magic. That’s how I’d describe this National Patient ID virtual meetup we put together with our friends at NextGate. Take a look at the amazing panel that shared important insights and perspectives on a National Patient Identifier: Julie Pursley […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 16, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations AHIMA Ben Moscovitch Dan Cidon EMPI Health Policy Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS20 Julie Pursley Dooling Mark S Source Type: blogs

No Refunds from HIMSS 2020 Annual Conference Exhibitors Becomes Partial Credit Towards HIMSS 2021 and 2022
I’ve been needing to write a post about the HIMSS 2020 Conference Cancellation for weeks since they announced that exhibitors would get no refunds from HIMSS (keep reading for the latest update). Between being overwhelmed with COVID-19 Health IT coverage and just the sick feeling I get thinking about HIMSS being cancelled, I’ve avoided writing […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 8, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIMSS HIMSS 2020 HIMSS 2021 HIMSS 2022 HIMSS Exhibitors HIMSS20 HIMSS21 HIMSS22 Source Type: blogs

Digital Health In Australia Will Feel A Significant Impact From The COVID-19 Emergency.
I have been a little slow in noticing the intensity of the impact of the present emergency on both the Digital Health Start-Up Community And In The Event / Conference organising groups.The penny should have really have dropped when the huge annual conference in the US (HIMSS) was cancelled.Here is the announcement:Coronavirus forces cancellation of HIMSS20After monitoring the situation for weeks, CEO Hal Wolf says the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference& Exhibition will not proceed as hoped, given the health risks posed to attendees.By Healthcare IT NewsMarch 05, 2020 01:17 PM For the first time in 58 years, the HIMS...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 31, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

High Quality Data is Key to Quality Care
An interview with Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture We have more data than we know what to do with in healthcare. We have clinical data held in EHRs, results from lab systems, images from imaging platforms, as well as wellness data from personal devices and apps. So how do we sift through it all […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 31, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Charlie Harp Clinical Architecture Health Data Analytics Healthcare Data Quality HIMSS HIMSS20 normalization Predictive Analytics Value Based Care Source Type: blogs

100 Health IT Interviews in 100 Days
What happens when hundreds of people have reached out to you leading up to the HIMSS annual conference and other trade shows and then they get cancelled? What do you do when hundreds of health IT companies are sending you the amazing work they’re doing for their customers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic? Do you throw […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 30, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC #HealthIT100in100 Health IT Stories Health IT Tools HIMSS HIMSS20 Source Type: blogs

$21 Million for “ Patient Lookup System ” in COVID-19 Supplemental
I think we’re all interested to see what kind of funding is going to be made available in the COVID-19 spending package that is happening. Tom Leary, VP Government Relations at HIMSS offered his suggestions on what COVID-19 healthcare funding might happen in our interview with him, but Ben Moscovitch, Project Director, Health Information Technology […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 19, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Ben Moscovitch Coronavirus COVID-19 COVID-19 Funding Genevieve Morris National Patient Identifier Patient Matching Source Type: blogs

Tracking digital health innovation in response to COVID-19
By INDU SUBAIYA & MATTHEW HOLT Since the COVID-19 pandemic became very real for all of us a couple in the US a couple of weeks ago, our team at Catalyst @ Health 2.0 has been working on a way to support the wider health tech community. We have created a list of information on innovators who are working to address the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to maximize our response efforts to the coronavirus outbreak, we are collecting information on specific solutions for COVID-19 issues from digital innovators in several categories like telemedicine, artificial intelligence, and disaster preparedness. Our resource hub inc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Featured #HT4COVID19 Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Indu Subaiya Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the 21st Century Cures Act with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS
One of the interviews I was most looking forward to at the now cancelled HIMSS 2020 annual conference was with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS. I’ve found that the government relations people at organizations like HIMSS are some of the most well informed people and are fonts of knowledge on what we […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 18, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations 21st Century Cures Act Coronavirus Coronavirus Funding COVID-19 Health Data Sharing Healthcare Interoperability HIMSS Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 14 March, 2020.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/coronavirus-scare-gives-telehealth-an-opening-to-redefine-healthcareCoronavirus Scare Gives Telehealth an Opening to Redefine HealthcareWith the coronavirus threatening to become a pandemic, health systems and telehealth vendors see this as an opportunity to bring connected health to the forefront - and reshape the future of h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 13, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

17 Coronavirus (Covid-19) Actions for Healthcare CIOs
Hard to believe it was only 9 days ago that we first wrote about the coronavirus and Health IT (now more officially called Covid-19). Seems like much longer, but that could be due to HIMSS cancelling and the threat of coronavirus swirling over us. No doubt it’s been a tense time for everyone as we […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 11, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Aaron Miri Coronavirus Coronavirus Action Plans David Chou Health System CIO Healthcare CIO Hospital CIO Source Type: blogs