By Mark Melchionna
July 11, 2023 – In an effort to build better semantic interoperability of health information, the Sequoia Project and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have created Data Usability Taking Root, an…
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Ophthalmology technology company Smartlens announced it closed a $6.1 million Series A equity financing round led by Ambit Health Ventures. Stanford University, Sophia Innovation Capital, Graphene Ventures, Plaisance Capital Management, Boutique Venture Partners, Wilson Sonsini…
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What You Should Know:
The Sequoia Project and AHIMA, today announced the launch of a new initiative called Data Usability Taking Root to make health data more useful. 11 organizations have already committed to participating in…
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Background: Current psychiatric epidemiological evidence estimates that 17% of young adults (aged 18-25 years) experienced a major depressive episode in 2020, relative to 8.4% of all adults aged ≥26 years. Young adults with a…
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The following is a guest article by Philip Russmeyer, Founder and CEO at FITFILE
Patient health and activity data has the potential to be an invaluable resource for healthcare organizations. The vast quantity of data…
By Jill McKeon
July 11, 2023 – Global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe suffered a data breach involving more than 40,000 individuals. The data was originally in the firm’s possession because it was working on…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 11, 2023 – Months after Charleston Area Medical Center and Mon Health merged to create Vandalia Health, the health system signed a 10-year agreement to deploy Oracle Health’s EHR to drive health data interoperability.
Officials…
By Sara Heath
July 10, 2023 – It could be useful for providers treating patients with dementia to encourage their care partners to create their own patient portal proxy accounts, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine…
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By Jill McKeon
July 06, 2023 – The latest string of reported healthcare data breaches impacted small and mid-sized healthcare organizations. Two of the three breaches mentioned below occurred in 2022.
Community Research Foundation Notifies HHS of…
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With laws such as the “No Surprises Act,” government has thrown its considerable weight behind the pressure on payers and clinicians to give patients good-faith estimates of the total cost of treatment. According to…
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