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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

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Diagnostic Accuracy Scores: Physicians 84%, Computer Algorithms 51%

A recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine reported on the diagnostic accuracy of physicians vs. computer algorithms. The study compared the performance of one computer symptom checker app to the text based answers of 234 physicians, 90% of whom were general internists. You can read a summary here.

JAMA IM study: MDs vastly outperformed computer algorithms in diagnostic accuracy–84% v 51% correcthttps://t.co/hfVJYA9rgu #digitalhealth

— Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis) December 30, 2016

Twitter commentators had a lot to say about […]

Quiz: Is Healthcare Next on the List?

Quiz: Is Healthcare Next on the List?

What do address books, video cameras, pagers, wristwatches, maps, books, travel games, flashlights, home telephones, cash registers, Walkmen, day timers, alarm clocks, answering machines, The Yellow Pages, wallets, keys, transistor radios, personal digital assistants, dashboard navigation systems, newspapers and magazines, directory assistance, travel and insurance agents, restaurant guides and pocket calculators all have in common?

Creating the “Blood Pressure Chart” App: An Independent Developer’s Story

by Mateusz Mucha. Mateusz is a freelance web application developer from Krakow, Poland.  31 y.o., married, enjoys rock climbing, sailing, skiing and having 6 meals a day. Contact him at muszek@gmail.com

This is a short story about Blood Pressure Chart – a web-based tool used to manage, analyze and share blood pressure records. The old saying, “necessity is a mother of invention”, is almost applicable here. Almost, because coming up with an idea to store whatever records in a web app […]

Healthcare IT News Highlights Mobile Health Expo Presentation

Mike Miliard did a great job in capturing highlights and key points of my presentation at the Mobile Health Expo conference earlier this week. You can read his story here.

Please write me at vincek@bhtinfo.com in you’d like a copy of the PowerPoint presentation.

Update:  Neil Versel of FierceEMR also wrote up the presentation.  Here’s a link to his concise, on-target article “HIE, mobility, open platforms start to knock down ‘walled gardens’ of proprietary EMRs.”

UnitedHealth a First Mover for “PHRs for Life”. Way to go!

CONGRATULATIONS to UnitedHealth!  They’ve announced that they are making their personal health records (PHRs) transportable:

The OptumHealth and UnitedHealthcare units of Minneapolis-based UnitedHealth Group have made their personal health records service accessible for life.

That means an individual covered by UHC insurance or OptumHealth’s outsourced health and wellness services will be able to access their PHR–and continue to enter data into it–if they change jobs or insurance coverage.

Prediction:  over time, the market will force all employers, payers, and providers to provide interoperable and […]