Health Datapalooza
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Interoperability has to move from data exchange to data management
Healthcare interoperability is evolving, but it is not keeping pace with industry needs. New federal and state policies, as well as advancements in technology, that focus on data management will be needed to push interoperability forward.
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Kathleen Sebelius at Health Datapalooza: To push ACA forward, forget bipartisanship
At a Health Datapalooza session, former HHS head Kathleen Sebelius looked back on lessons learned in 2009 when the Affordable Care Act was moving through Congress. She cautioned the Biden administration against leaning on bipartisanship when restoring the healthcare law.
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HHS Secretary Tom Price wants to ease health IT burden on doctors but is committed to interoperability
“We need our physicians to be patient facing, not computer facing,” he said in a keynote speech delivered at the Health Datapalooza conference. “We simply have to do a better job of reducing the burden on healthcare providers.”
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What does it take for startups to get the attention of life science companies?
“Few pharma companies are ready to disrupt the traditional model,” said Otsuka Pharmaceuticals U.S. Senior Director of Innovative Data Solutions Pravin Jadhav.
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Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. Former consultant turned entrepreneur shares timely anecdote
In a panel at Health Datapalooza this week, Zed Kimmel, CEO and Co-founder of remote monitoring startup, Atlas5D, sought to illustrate what can happen when a large company cannot shift gears and the cost of that intransigence.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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At Health Datapalooza, leave it to a Brit to take on Donald Trump
“It’s great to be here before Mr. Trump puts those walls up,” quipped British MP George Freeman, Minister for Life Sciences.
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Is reduced patient trust the cost of greater transparency for physician performance, hospital ratings?
“Trust needs to be based on reality not fantasy,” said Marshall Allen, who covers patient safety for ProPublica.
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Get My Health Data campaign launches in time for ‘Data Independence Day’
July 4 is upon us, and with that also comes “Data Independence Day,” when consumers are supposed to start asking en masse for copies of their medical records, in hopes of demonstrating to providers, IT vendors and healthcare policy-makers that there truly is wide demand for such access.
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Health Datapalooza highlights different approaches to visualizing data
Health Data Consortium launched an obesity data challenge in the U.S. to encourage the development of visualization tools.
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This week on MedHeads: Looking back at Health Datapalooza
Reporters Neil Versel and Stephanie Baum will join Chris Seper to review insights from the recent Health Datapalooza conference in Washington DC.
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‘Data Independence Day’ is coming, Mostashari says
Plans are coming together for “Data Independence Day,” when consumers demand electronic access to their health information, but organizers want to position it more as a movement than an event tied to the July 4 holiday.