Amanda Taylor's Discussions

Sequoia Project sets sights on semantic interoperability with new guidance effort

Highlights:

The Sequoia Project announced Wednesday that it's forming a new Data Usability Workgroup to continue removing barriers to interoperability, and is calling for participants in advance of its first meeting later this month.
The workgroup,

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Telehealth's digital divide is real, and members of Congress want to address it

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Even as the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified telemedicine's potential to expand access to care, said the Congress members, it has also highlighted existing disparities in our system. Broadband access is an issue, as many telehealth advoca

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Lyft, Epic Deal Uses Medical Rideshare for Patient Access to Care

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Rideshare giant Lyft has officially rolled out Lyft for Epic, a medical rideshare integration with Epic Systems EHR that will ease patient access to care and address transportation as a social determinant of health, the companies announ

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New framework helps streamline EHR data extraction

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The framework, which the researchers call FIDDLE (Flexible Data-Driven Pipeline), has the power to greatly speed up EHR data preprocessing and assist machine learning (ML) practitioners working with health data, according to a study publ

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Feds Map Out Interoperability Strategy for VA, DoD EHR Systems

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FEHRM took over for the Interagency Program Office in 2019, which previously managed patient data exchange and interoperability between the DoD and VA’s EHR systems, is now in charge of VA and DoD’s new Cerner Millennium EHR systems, whi

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Exploring 3 Levels of Health Information Exchange, Data Access

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According to The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) —and nearly everyone else in healthcare—electronic health information exchange (HIE) allows providers and patients to appropriately access and s

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Cerner unveils new interoperability tools, as CEO Brent Shafer says 'innovation is accelerating'

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At the 35th annual Cerner Health Conference, which launched virtually on Tuesday, CEO Brent Shafer described the many ways the company has been helping providers around the world deliver high-quality healthcare more efficiently during t

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State of Homelessness

This report is a snapshot of the data related to homelessness in the seven-county Denver metro region. This includes the counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. The report summarizes data on individuals, fami

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A Guide to Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Protect your electronic information and assets from unauthorized access, use and disclosure. Discover how to identify cyberthreats, understand best practices, and demystify laws and regulations related to cybersecurity in healthcare.

In this Guide:

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A Guide to Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Protect your electronic information and assets from unauthorized access, use and disclosure. Discover how to identify cyberthreats, understand best practices, and demystify laws and regulations related to cybersecurity in healthcare.

In this Guide:

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In Chicago, a Regional Funding Pool is Helping the Chronically Homeless Get Off the Street and Into a Permanent Home

Highlights:

The Better Health Through Housing demonstration program in Chicago along with a new funding pool to expand the services can offer some guidance. Since November 2015, Better Health Through Housing has worked with four hospitals to house 1

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Count People Where They Are: Census Miscounts Undermine Essential Funding for Homelessness Prevention

Introduction and Summary:

In conducting the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau endeavors to fulfill a constitutional mandate to enumerate every person residing in the United States.1 The census is a large, vast, and complex operation undertaken

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Race, Geographic Disparities in Childhood Wellness Opportunity

Highlights:

The notion that place can determine health is not a new one. A key premise in medicine’s recent focus on the social determinants of health is that zip code is a better indicator of health and wellness than genetic makeup.
“In the past de

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Assessing Efforts to Ensure Equitable Access to Broadband Services that Support Public Health

Overview:

Today, home broadband service can connect people to a wide range of services that support healthy outcomes; however broadband is one of the most unequal essential services in the United States. Individuals who lack high-speed broadband serv

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How Do Social Determinants of Health Affect Patient Wellness?

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As healthcare providers worked to promote overall health and wellness and to prevent unnecessary healthcare utilization, it quickly became clear that certain social factors were at play here. The social determinants of health could affec

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The Promise of Good Health for All: Transforming Public Health in America

The report focuses on five key priority areas:

PRIORITY 1: Make substantial and sustained investments in a more effective public health system including a highly-skilled public health workforce.

PRIORITY 2: Mobilize an all-out effort to combat racism

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The Promise of Good Health for All: Transforming Public Health in America

The report focuses on five key priority areas:

PRIORITY 1: Make substantial and sustained investments in a more effective public health system including a highly-skilled public health workforce.

PRIORITY 2: Mobilize an all-out effort to combat racism

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Safe Streets in American Cities: How Complete Streets Laws are Creating Stronger Communities

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This report evaluates Complete Streets policies in the 40 largest cities in the United States and awards cities a medal based on the strength of their Complete Streets policy.

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PUBLIC HEALTH’S UNIQUE ROLE IN ADDRESSING BOTH SOCIAL NEEDS AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

This is the second in a series of issue briefs from the National Alliance to impact the Social Determinants of Health (NASDOH) on key SDOH-related issues that have been exacerbated during COVID-19. This brief explores how the public health sector is

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PUBLIC HEALTH’S UNIQUE ROLE IN ADDRESSING BOTH SOCIAL NEEDS AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

This is the second in a series of issue briefs from the National Alliance to impact the Social Determinants of Health (NASDOH) on key SDOH-related issues that have been exacerbated during COVID-19. This brief explores how the public health sector is

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