The technology and standards are in place to make healthcare data shareable between providers, payers, companies and consumers. What’s keeping it from actually happening, according to entrepreneur Brian Baum, is a fair and sustainable business model around sharing health data, and an independent marketplace where it can happen. Baum is the founder and CEO of […]
In an attempt to weave health data into other aspects of life, Aaron Coleman developed a Flappy Birds-like game app that uses data recorded by a person’s Fitbit to control its difficulty. “There’s plenty of literature that suggests keeping people mindful of their daily physical activity level makes them more likely to increase it,” he […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
In all of the chatter around sensors, healthcare big data and patient engagement lately, there seems to be a general agreement that healthcare data will be most useful when it’s integrated and filtered in a way that guides consumers, physicians or insurers to make decisions that result in improved outcomes and reduce costs. Datu Health […]
Not a lot of ICD-10 progress was made in 2013. Some elements of the healthcare industry are even less prepared than they were back in January while quite a few of them have made considerable progress and are well ahead of the ICD-10 implementation deadline. Given the fact that healthcare organizations had a lot to […]
Last week I presented the closing keynote at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West Conference & Exhibition in Los Angeles. MD&M has always been about what’s next in medical device designs and this year’s event didn’t disappoint. While still being primarily focused on hardware, many smart device manufacturers came out to MD&M looking for […]
If modern technology has ushered in a plague of identity theft, one particular strain of the disease has emerged as most virulent: medical identity theft. Last month, the Identity Theft Resource Centerproduced a surveyshowing that medical-related identity theft accounted for 43 percent of all identity thefts reported in the United States in 2013. That is a far greater […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Some of the more interesting blogs published by our MedCitizens in January 2014 focused on patient engagement in healthcare, wearables, crowdfunding predictions and healthcare trends to watch this year.
At last week’s Meaningful Use Workgroup meeting, Leslie Kelly Hall and I reviewed the HIT Standards Committee recommendations for patient generated healthcare data from online applications and devices. We offered guiding principles for Meaningful Use Stage 3 in general. Meaningful Use should avoid “certification only” items since requiring engineering in products to support untested […]
There’s no doubt that big data is significantly impacting healthcare. Throughout the continuum of care, from hospitals to payers to patients to product providers, there continues to be a demand to create and store increasing amounts of digital data to strengthen the decision making process surrounding everything from operational performance to treatment types. Why is […]
Geisinger Health System announced this week that it’s working with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN) in a project to use genetic samples from more than 100,000 volunteers to identify and validate associations between genes and human disease. The move reflects Geisinger’s efforts to advance genomic analysis from the research stage to the point where it is […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Data has a greater impact in today’s world than ever before. With the amount and depth of data available, it can tell a detailed story about your organization’s performance. If you want to control that story, you need to know your data intimately and have the right technology to help you manage your data. Data […]
A new company developed by one of the two co-founders of 23andMe wants to help patients not only analyze their data, but influence how it is used. It reflects the free the data movement to not only eliminate data silos but also make patients’ own data more accessible Linda Avey founded Curious (@Wearecurious) to help […]
An online portal connecting researchers with people willing to share their health data, a community health dashboard and a text-based counseling program for teens were the big winners of The Knight Foundation’s $2.2 million health data challenge. Launched last summer, the challenge called on companies, nonprofits and individuals to submit ideas on how to turn […]
Geisinger Health System’s spinout company, xG Health Solutions, may be looking for provider customers for its healthcare analytics tools and consulting business to help them convert from fee-based to outcomes-based care, but it’s pretty selective. In a presentation to a packed crowd at the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, its CEO Dr Earl Steinberg said: “We […]
It’s rare for me to hear a panel discussion on digital health and not hear the same conversation repeated and reiterated over and over again. In a discussion between health IT company CEOs at the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, some of the most interesting points raised were the ones the healthcare industry is struggling with […]