The future of health IT over the next five years is in the development of these “glue” applications that allow the seamless linking of large, robust system, such as EMRs or laboratory applications, so that end users can utilize these tools in a coherent, patient-centric manner.
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We Need Privacy Now
Today, patient information is actively being used to target market products and services to patients. Although the data firms utilize is de-identified, they employ reverse lookup utilities to reconstruct the information with patient identifiers.
Continue readingWhat to Think About Once We Start Containment
Will Americans allow themselves to be tracked via their mobile phones, credit card transactions, and CCTV video to halt the pandemic? How much privacy will Americans give up to return to a semblance of normal?
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