Quality and Safety
Australia's My Health Record provides more than 90% of the country's citizens with a national eHealth record that can help them improve their digital health journey, says Codesain CEO Rachel De Sain.
The Blue Button API pilot, Data at the Point of Care, aims to connect clinicians with claims data, giving them deeper insights into their patients' care history.
The fine is the largest ever imposed on any company for violating consumers' privacy, according to the FTC.
The cost of a healthcare breach is about $408 per patient record and that doesn't include the loss of business, productivity and reputation.
Less than a quarter of newly certified paramedics are female, and only about 5 percent of EMTs self-identify as black.
Konstantin Hyppönen, chief architect at Kanta Services in Finland, discusses how better tools can enable patients to manage their own healthcare from home.
One of the largest private insurance plans to use population-based global budgets achieved success in slowing spending growth.
James Hawkins, director of strategy at NHS Digital, discusses how the NHS.UK platform provides users with an app that allows them to access their own records, book appointments, order prescriptions and do basic triage.
HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling discusses the future of healthcare as well as the key issues, system applications and data outcomes the Health 2.0 Annual Conference brings to the forefront.
Children without insurance were 3.3 times more likely to be transferred than those covered under private insurance.