LAS VEGAS – Whether it’s from telemedicine, wearables and or electronic health records, a growing amount of healthcare data is becoming available on both an individual and population-wide level. “But just because you have data,” pointed out Michael Meucci, chief operating officer at Arcadia, “doesn’t mean that it’s meaningful.” In a HIMSS21 session here on […]
Patient ID Now, a coalition of more than 40 healthcare organizations, released a framework this week aimed at creating a national strategy around patient identification that protects individual safety and security. In the framework, the coalition calls on the federal government to closely collaborate with the private sector and with other public health authorities […]
A report Tuesday from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday alleged that the regime of Kim Jong Un had tried to tap into the servers of a local drugmaker to obtain data on the Pfizer vaccine. WHY IT MATTERS The charge from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, reportedly relayed to Seoul lawmakers in a […]
The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill sent to President Joe Biden on Wednesday includes a number of provisions aimed at expanding health IT. Like the coronavirus relief packages before it, the legislation acknowledges the role digital health tools can play in addressing the fallout from the COVID-19 crisis – and earmarks funds toward bolstering […]
As of 1 March, researchers can request access to two COVID-19 vaccine datasets through the HDR Innovation Gateway, set up by the national institute for health data science, HDR UK. The datasets available are the England COVID-19 Immunisation dataset and the Welsh COVID-19 Vaccination dataset. England’s COVID Immunisation dataset is now available through the Office for National […]
The sluggish rollout of COVID-19 vaccines so far has many causes, but one of the biggest has been a suboptimal infrastructure for coordination and record keeping. A new coalition of some of the biggest healthcare and technology organizations is hoping to change that, and quickly. WHY IT MATTERS The new Vaccination Credential Initiative announced Thursday […]
Microsoft on Monday announced that it would be undertaking a strategic partnership with the Alphabet company Verily and with MIT and Harvard’s Broad Institute to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine through the Terra platform. Terra is an open-source platform, historically run on Google’s cloud infrastructure, that researchers can use to analyze data in scientific […]
Technologies such as telehealth and remote monitoring were seen as low priority or ‘good to have’ by healthcare organizations such as hospitals or even relegated further down the priority list to become pilot or proof of concept projects. However, these technologies have now come to the fore as healthcare organizations across Asia Pacific region have […]
A report published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association examined the ways in which 15 academic medical centers leveraged their electronic health records to address the COVID-19 pandemic – and the ways in which existing initiatives have fallen short. “EHRs contain many important data elements that can help with […]
A new study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association showed that in mid-March, Black people were more likely to self-report telehealth use in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic – particularly when perceiving COVID-19 as a minor threat to their own health. The Pew Research Center conducted the survey […]
