Dr Charlotte Refsum is a passionate advocate for the power of the single patient record to transform health systems.
After starting her career as a GP, a role at KPMG took her to visit…
Bridging the data gap between acute care and post-acute care is a significant challenge. However, more and more evidence suggests that sharing the right information from acute care with post-acute care settings, like Skilled…
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We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are…
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Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies
Patient data interoperability sounds like industry jargon, but it’s a vital piece of providing timely and accurate patient care. Since 1996, when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act…
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Empowering individuals to take a more active role in managing their health and improving health outcomes requires ready access to their personal health information (PHI). Unfortunately, a variety of technology, financial, and policy barriers…
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Anyone who has been on a hospital ward, whether as clinician, patient, or visitor, has noticed the continual din of beeps and chirps—it can drive you crazy. It’s notable that one of the simple…
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AI-enabled imaging company Aidoc announced it secured $30 million in funding to develop a comprehensive AI imaging model and a new category of products based on that model. WHAT IT DOES
Aidoc offers radiologists tools to…
In the highly competitive life sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical fields, companies that put data security first have powerful advantages. Robust security is the heart of medical innovation, enabling the groundbreaking research required to develop…
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UK Biobank has denied sharing sensitive health data intended for medical research with insurance companies, in response to an investigation by The Observer, which was published in the paper on Sunday 12 November.UK Biobank…
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