Datapalooza

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A New Meaning for Connected Health at 2016 Symposium (Part 2 of 4)

Andy Oram | EMR & HIPPA | November 4, 2016

Tullman’s principles of simplicity, cited in the previous section, can be applied to a wide range of health IT. For instance, AdhereTech pill bottles can notify the patient with a phone call or text message if she misses a dose. Another example of a technology that is easily integrated into everyday life is a thermometer built into a vaginal ring that a woman can insert and use without special activation. This device was mentioned by Costantini during her keynote. The device can alert a woman–and, if she wants, her partner–to when she is most fertile. Super-compact devices and fancy interfaces are not always necessary for a useful intervention. 

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ACA & Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation

Brian Horowitz | eWeek | May 29, 2013

"Data that supports medical decision making and collaboration, dovetailing with new tools in the Affordable Care Act [ACA], are spurring the innovation necessary to deliver improved health care Read More »

HHS Harnesses the Power of Health Data to Improve Health

Press Release | CMS, IOM, HHS, ONC | June 5, 2012

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with the Institute of Medicine (IoM) and other members of the Health Data Consortium, are co-hosting the third annual “Datapalooza” focusing on innovative applications and services that harness the power of open data from HHS and other sources to help improve health and health care.

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Obamacare, Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation

Brian T. Horowitz | eWeek | May 29, 2013

Government regulations and open data initiatives inspire investment in platforms that support accountable care organizations. Read More »

ONC Unveils Rules For Medicare Data Visualization Challenge

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | April 11, 2014

Just as the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) was releasing Medicare provider utilization and payment data to the public, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was looking for ways to make these data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) meaningful to consumers.

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ONC’s John Fleming Wants Patients to Have a Single Unified Health record

Evan Sweeney | Fierce Healthcare | June 2, 2017

A senior administrator with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT said he wants patients to have a unified health record that could pull data from various medical providers into a single record. John Fleming, the ONC’s deputy assistant secretary for health technology reform, outlined his vision that would give patients more control of their medical information during the International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy hosted by Georgetown University Law...

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Report From Health Datapalooza IV

Datapalooza IV was all about collaboration, open solutions, and innovation.  Remember this magical formula:  Collaboration + Open Solutions = Innovation Read More »

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius Speaks Out on Health Innovations

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Huffington Post | June 3, 2013

This week marks the fourth annual edition of what has come to be known as 'Datapalooza,' and the results have exceeded our wildest expectations. Read More »