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Is Someone Stealing Your Health Data?
In 2017, Facebook held a widely reported health summit for pharmaceutical companies to propose ways that user “likes” and demographic information could be enlisted to better target drug ads. After Facebook was outed in the recent scandal, CNBC reported that the company was looking into selling user information to hospitals and medical institutions, [...]
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and others want to fix one of the most broken things about health care
There are many broken things about the U.S. health care system. But one of the biggest and most overlooked problems is that patients still find it too hard to share their medical information between doctors, especially those working in different hospitals. It’s a huge problem for many reasons: It makes [...]
ACOs and Rural Healthcare
ACOs and Rural Healthcare By Chris Lester and Sabrina Chugani Roughly 20 percent of the United States population lives in rural areas. Despite this, rural America faces a number of health-related challenges, some of which are structural, while some are related to regional differences [...]
At HLTH, a Candid Discussion of What the Federal Government Can and Should Do to Promote Healthcare Innovation
At the HLTH Conference held this week at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas, the session entitled “U.S. Government Investing in Health Innovations” stimulated candid, oftentimes-spirited discussion of the role of the federal government in promoting technological and service innovation in the U.S. healthcare system. [...]
Custom Patient Risk Groups and Interventions
By Vinith Annam Creating Patient Risk Groups In a previous blog post titled Harnessing Open Health Data & Methodologies to Serve Value-based Care Networks, CareJourney discussed Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s development of a publically available patient segmentation model which identifies a small percentage of Medicare beneficiaries who [...]
A call to action: Using open APIs to solve global healthcare challenges
May 8, 2018 | External blog
CareJourney Launches Network Advantage Product
Arlington, Va., April 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CareJourney, a leading provider of clinically-relevant analytics for value-based care delivery networks, today launched Network Advantage, a market assessment product that aids ACOs, hospital systems, and payers in optimizing delivery networks for quality and cost efficiency. [...]
Aneesh Chopra urges innovators to embrace ‘Digital Hippocratic Oath’
Aneesh Chopra said that the healthcare industry needs to start looking at privacy and ethics, especially in the midst of recent Cambridge Analytics and Facebook problems. That is as true among upstarts and innovators as anywhere else. Chopra, who is the president of Care Journey and formerly served as White [...]
Health Care Cost Institute Welcomes Three New Board Members
The Health Care Cost Institute has named a former Chief Technology Officer of the United States, a multiple award winning academic, and a successful health data entrepreneur to its Governing Board. The three new members will help shape the organization’s vision and priorities moving forward. “Our new board members bring [...]
Why is Chronic Care Management (CCM) Important?
Why is Chronic Care Management (CCM) Important? By Ivy Deng Our patient segmentation model finds that for MSSP populations across the country, most patients fall into the major complex chronic illness segment (to qualify for this segment, a patient must have two or more complex [...]
Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry
March 23, 2018 | External blog
Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry
An announcement on January 24 didn’t get the large amount of attention it deserved: Apple and 13 prominent health systems, including prestigious centers like Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, disclosed an agreement that would allow Apple to download onto its various devices the electronic health data of those [...]