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eHealthBeat: Women Leading the Way in Healthcare Transformation

Vol.17 Issue: 18

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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Women Leading the Way in Healthcare Transformation

 
According to the Forbes Women’s Summit, women are the tip of the spear for change in healthcare transformation. They are agents of change in healthcare, promoting patient engagement and personalized medicine. Discussing mammography at the conference, Deborah Rhodes from Mayo Clinic, said that "It's going to take women to stand up and say, 'It has to get better.”

 
NEJM Article Addresses Data Dumping

 
In a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), three authors advocate for information sharing regarding clinical research and the importance to push for platforms to manage data effectively. The authors discuss risks associated with increasing the volume of accessible information by adding repositories alone. They are particularly concerned with data dumpsters, which in their words, “are repositories that do not include metadata or documentation to put data in context.”

 
New JAMA Study Causes Stir

 
A recently released study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) regarding direct-to-consumer dermatology services has experienced pushback from telehealth advocates. The study found that in the areas of transparency, diagnostic and therapeutic quality, and thoroughness, is sorely lacking. Most of the pushback comes from a Wall Street Journal article discussing the study.

 
Highmark BCBS to Offer Quartet’s Behavioral App to Members

 
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield announces a collaboration with behavioral mental health services company, Quartet Health, for their application rolling out initially in western Pennsylvania. Quartet will assist physicians pinpoint patients that need behavioral health support and inform their primary care physician for referrals. Members can use the app to communicate via telehealth services to psychiatrists.

 
Boston Children’s Hospital Creates Mobile App Development Guide

 
Researchers at the Boston Children’s Hospital create 14-point mobile app development guide for bring-your-own-device hospital environments to assist developers with system integration, software deployment, and compliance adherence. Utilizing the guidance, the team built the TaskList app to help residents capture, monitor, create, and share collaborative tasks. The guideline covers four categories, including authentication and authorization, safeguarding app environment, remote enforcement, and data management.

 
HealthKit Platform Holds Promise, but Challenges Remain

 
A new article in Telemedicine and e-health found that Apple’s new HealthKit open-source healthcare platform holds promise, but contains issues to obtain its promise. "The Apple HealthKit telemonitoring platform offers advantages over current hub-and-server technology for a segment of the primary care population. Although this easily-accessible telemonitoring platform has distinct advantages in terms of widespread dissemination, as well as a population with conditions amenable to telemonitoring, there remain interoperability and data governance issues, reimbursement barriers and provider concerns about the potential for large amounts of unfiltered telemonitoring data,” according to the report.
 
UPCOMING EVENTS





Wednesday, May 25, 2-3 pm ET, 2016 Population Health Survey Webinar. Sponsored by Medicity. Register here. To take the survey click here.



Thursday, May 26, 2-3 pm ET, Council of Data Analytics Experts The Power of In-Workflow, Real-time Analytics at the Point of CareJason Rose, Chief Strategic Development Officer, Inovalon will be discussing Data Diagnostics™, allowing for patient-specific data analyses in real time, at the point of care within clinicians' existing workflow.



Wednesday, June 18, 2-3 pm ET, Advisory Board on Business & Clinical Motivators



October 4-5, 2016 Innovation Showcase at House of Sweden in Washington, D.C.


 
Nirmal (Nim) Patel, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Information Officer, Teladoc, Inc.
Welcome New Member, Cisco!



Barbara Casey, Practice Director at new eHI member Cisco Systems, speaks on their membership with us. “Cisco is excited to be joining the eHealth Initiative at this point of tremendous change in healthcare, especially as it relates to technology as an enabler in the industry. We see this as an excellent opportunity to help chart this course of change and collaborate alongside leaders and colleagues in the healthcare industry.”
eHI Launches 2016 Population Health Survey

 
eHealth Initiative is conducting a survey of population health measures. To complete the survey click here.  Results of the survey will be announced at a webinar, in association with Medicity, on May 25. To register for the webinar, click here. For more information or to be included in the survey, email info@ehidc.org.
 ONC Task Force Releases New Report on APIs

 
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) task force on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), revealed in a new report that it did not find any “show-stopping” barriers that would impede the deployment within the ONC timeline set for the 2015 certifications criteria or MU stage 3.  Existing standards infrastructure and processes are adequate to support patient-directed access through current APIs. They recommend that ONC analyze the feasibility of a comprehensive oversight mechanism to address the needs of a patient-directed API ecosystem.



Hospitals Urge CMS on Caution Regarding Global Payments

 

eHI member, the American Hospital Association (AHA), revealed that it supports the work underway by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding global payments, but urges caution as well. In a letter to CMS, AHA states that any proposals place patient care and financial need into consideration; integrate behavioral mental health; integrate care delivery into a community-model; and, advance plans to improve patient safety. They also emphasized that ANY global payment initiatives be purely voluntary and based at a regional, rather than nation level, taking facility size into account.
Cybersecurity:


Survey Says No Slowdown in Healthcare Breaches

 
According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute and ID Experts, 90 percent of healthcare organizations suffered a data breach in the past two years, with 45 percent having more than five. Criminal attacks are the majority cause of the breaches. The College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) responded by commending the report.

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