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.
How has thinking around cybersecurity in healthcare evolved, and what challenges remain? How is the healthcare industry facing down cybersecurity threats internally and externally?
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.
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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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.
Experimental models such as virtual clinical trials are designed with patient-generated data in mind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Through their partnership, the data and pictures requested by Grand Rounds on behalf of patients can be shared between imaging centers and medical facilities.
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
The new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology outlines how organizations can use open-source and commercially available tools to keep patient information safe on mobile devices.
The competition seeks solutions that show how patient health data can be captured by mobile devices, sent to a physician and turned into actionable information used to improve health outcomes.
CNBC reports the tech giant has halted talks with U.S. hospitals to share anonymized patient information, and Facebook said no data has been shared or analyzed.
Israel plans to invest 1 billion shekels (about $287 million) in a new project that will make its nearly 9 million citizens' health data digitally available to researchers. Though participation is optional, some have voiced privacy concerns regarding the initiative.
"Unfortunately, the announcement lacked many specific actions to effectively implement the initiative," Biden wrote in a Forbes commentary. "I agree with the administration's stated goals, but real action is needed — and now is the time."