By Ian Cohen – My Health My Data Act went into effect on March 31, 2024 This law is a game changer for companies, even outside of healthcare. The law requires companies to get an explicit “opt-in” for HIPAA Consent when collecting certain types of data.
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By Jitin Asnaani – The sheer amount of information generated in healthcare and the variability of sources increases the risk of duplicate, inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent identity data. This can result in numerous hurdles.
By Jamie Clark – Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries across the board, and healthcare is no exception. Chatbots, predictive algorithms, robotic process automation – the hype around these emerging technologies promises a revolution in how hospitals deliver care.
By Pamela J. Gallagher – The modern healthcare industry is dependent on data. The steady improvement of how data is collected and analyzed has allowed us to make great strides in providing quality care and improving the health of our patients.
By Jordan Bazinsky – One of the biggest frustrations of the COVID-19 pandemic has been unraveling why we still lack the data needed to successfully contain the coronavirus outbreak. Amid testing shortages, especially in the early months of the pandemic, we saw advancements in our ability to predict…
By Gevik Nalbandian – How can we as an industry improve data sharing and eliminate paper-based forms that consumers routinely fill out when they seek care? What level of pain or loss of capital is required to force institutions to eradicate misidentification of patients? How can we free ourselves from the shackles that healthcare has on our data?
By Gregg Church – Hospital-based and commercial labs are flooded with all types of mismatched patient data. However, disparate systems coupled with a lack of universally mandated data standards and protocols means that big data just gets bigger ─ and clinical interoperability challenges just get larger.
By Matt Fisher – Who owns healthcare data? Who can access healthcare data? Who can control how healthcare data are used? Those three questions can form the basis for going into any number of directions in the discussion around healthcare data.
By Kurt Stoever – In an information-laden world, healthcare still stands as one of the globe’s most data-intensive industries. In fact, UNC Charlotte’s Health Informatics and Analytics Data Science Initiative reports that up to 30 percent of the world’s stored data is healthcare-generated.