Social media and computing technologies are becoming increasingly important tools for healthcare organizations and consumers. They allow for information sharing, online support groups, and new ways of engaging patients. As patients become more active researchers, the relationship with providers will shift from authoritative to a partnership model. New sites also use crowdsourcing techniques to diagnose patients by collecting opinions from medical experts and laypeople. While not a replacement for doctors, these methods could potentially identify new diagnosis options more cheaply than specialist visits alone.
Track of Data Science and Infrastructure sessions at the 2015 Health Datapalooza Organized by Niall Brennan, Chief Data Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Joshua Rosenthal, PhD, RowdMap Inc. and NCHVS Data Group
Will Price Transparency Help Patients Find Lower Cost Care Mary Tolan
At the close of July, the Trump administration proposed new policies that would create greater price transparency among healthcare providers. The driving idea behind the new proposal is that patients will be better able to shop around for care and choose options that fit within their budgetary limits instead of seeking care from the nearest provider and hoping that the bill they receive after the fact isn’t out of their financial reach. It’s a measure meant to empower and facilitate cost-savings for overburdened consumers — and given the current sky-high state of healthcare prices in the United States, it may well be a welcome one.
Digital technology is changing the relationship between patient and doctor, and healthcare providers must adopt new approaches to data and information.
Read our new article to gain insights of how the adoption of cloud affects the healthcare industry.
Track of Data Science and Infrastructure sessions at the 2015 Health Datapalooza Organized by Niall Brennan, Chief Data Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Joshua Rosenthal, PhD, RowdMap Inc. and NCHVS Data Group
Will Price Transparency Help Patients Find Lower Cost Care Mary Tolan
At the close of July, the Trump administration proposed new policies that would create greater price transparency among healthcare providers. The driving idea behind the new proposal is that patients will be better able to shop around for care and choose options that fit within their budgetary limits instead of seeking care from the nearest provider and hoping that the bill they receive after the fact isn’t out of their financial reach. It’s a measure meant to empower and facilitate cost-savings for overburdened consumers — and given the current sky-high state of healthcare prices in the United States, it may well be a welcome one.
Digital technology is changing the relationship between patient and doctor, and healthcare providers must adopt new approaches to data and information.
Read our new article to gain insights of how the adoption of cloud affects the healthcare industry.
Using analytics to mine large datasets for insights, commonly known as Big Data, is already transforming industries ranging from consumer goods to transportation. Certainly, the healthcare sector has the raw information to join this group. For example, Kaiser Permanente, a California-based health network, has an estimated 27 to 44 million gigabytes of potentially useful patient information. Expectations are that the U.S. healthcare sector will soon have a zettabyte of these data.
To learn more about the research programme, visit http://hospitalresilience.eiu.com/.
Advanced analytics playing a vital role for health insurersBodhtree
Insurance companies are realizing the benefits of using advanced analytics for designing products, segmenting and developing metrics for risk management.Analytics can enable the compilation of information about trends, patterns, deviations, anomalies and relationships and reveal insight.
The Role Of Data and Emergent Technologies In Managing Health IFAH
Joanna Taylor, Partner - Advisory Markets & Life Sciences, Ernst & Young AG on the topic of 'The Role Of Data and Emergent Technologies In Managing Health ' at IFAH held at Le Meridien, Dubai on 16th - 18th December, 2019.
Value-Based Care and Healthcare Consumerism: Opportunities for Health IT and ...Cognizant
Health IT and technology solutions are central in the shift to value-based care and to meeting the demands of patient consumerism. Hurdles remain, but all primary players in the healthcare ecosystem, patients, providers and payers, are seeking more and better data, platform interoperability, real-time and actionable analytical insights, and more effective engagement.
There are a growing number of examples demonstrating compelling and creative uses of data provided by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies.
HHS provides a wealth of open data sources and APIs. Industry, researchers and media have been able to put these data assets to good use, creating significant economic value, informing the public and improving public health.
Big data for healthcare analytics final -v0.3 mizYusuf Brima
Sources of Big Data in Health (a comparative description of national and international data sources and identification of new/emerging sources of data)
By leveraging Big Data, the healthcare industry has an incredible potential to improve lives. This session will give examples of how data volume, velocity and variety is transforming the “art” of a doctor to the science of care. It will describe how the use of machine learning and massive amount of data will drive the new Consumer Drive healthcare movement.
Part of the "2016 Annual Conference: Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics" held at Harvard Law School on May 6, 2016.
This conference aimed to: (1) identify the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the use of big data in health care and health research, particularly in the United States; (2) understand the way U.S. law (and potentially other legal systems) currently promotes or stands as an obstacle to these potential uses; (3) determine what might be learned from the legal and ethical treatment of uses of big data in other sectors and countries; and (4) examine potential solutions (industry best practices, common law, legislative, executive, domestic and international) for better use of big data in health care and health research in the U.S.
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School 2016 annual conference was organized in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Health Ethics and Policy Lab, University of Zurich.
Learn more at http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/2016-annual-conference.
2016 Overview of significant trends in the life sciences (Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Device and Diagnostics) industry with Regenerative Medicine feature articles.
Impact of DDOD on Data Quality - White House 2016David Portnoy
"The Impact of Demand-Driven Open Data (DDOD) on Data Quality" was presented on April 27, 2016 at Open Data Roundtable held at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
It discusses the data quality problems prevalent in open data and their impact, the origins of the DDOD concept, how it works, progress towards its goals, several use case examples, and how to implement it at other organizations.
More information:
* DDOD http://ddod.healthdata.gov
* Open Data Roundtables https://www.data.gov/meta/open-data-roundtables/
* White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/02/05/open-data-empowering-americans-make-data-driven-decisions
Will Mobile Apps Bring Wound Care Technology to the “Cutting Edge”?Chrissy Stanojev
For wound care providers and other clinicians, 2017 continued to bring about a chaotic storm of healthcare reform based on quality measures, data registry requirements, and documentation standards. As has been previously stated in this journal, it remains to be seen if wound care practitioners will pool their limited resources and harness the power of their electronic health records to battle the “giant of healthcare reform.”1 This country’s push to enact and substantiate quality of care delivery can be seen through the uniting of clinical practice with increasingly sophisticated digital technology that allows for more accurate documentation and communication. For good reason, the focus of this union is being placed on the perspective of the patient (ie, how the patient receives healthcare information). However, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is a need for clinicians to be armed with devices that more easily and effectively facilitate the means to that end. This article will discuss the proliferation of healthcare-related digital apps that are both patient and clinician focused in an attempt to lay a foundation for wound care clinicians to become more technologically savvy and clinically compliant.
https://www.todayswoundclinic.com/articles/will-mobile-apps-bring-wound-care-technology-cutting-edge
Using analytics to mine large datasets for insights, commonly known as Big Data, is already transforming industries ranging from consumer goods to transportation. Certainly, the healthcare sector has the raw information to join this group. For example, Kaiser Permanente, a California-based health network, has an estimated 27 to 44 million gigabytes of potentially useful patient information. Expectations are that the U.S. healthcare sector will soon have a zettabyte of these data.
To learn more about the research programme, visit http://hospitalresilience.eiu.com/.
Advanced analytics playing a vital role for health insurersBodhtree
Insurance companies are realizing the benefits of using advanced analytics for designing products, segmenting and developing metrics for risk management.Analytics can enable the compilation of information about trends, patterns, deviations, anomalies and relationships and reveal insight.
The Role Of Data and Emergent Technologies In Managing Health IFAH
Joanna Taylor, Partner - Advisory Markets & Life Sciences, Ernst & Young AG on the topic of 'The Role Of Data and Emergent Technologies In Managing Health ' at IFAH held at Le Meridien, Dubai on 16th - 18th December, 2019.
Value-Based Care and Healthcare Consumerism: Opportunities for Health IT and ...Cognizant
Health IT and technology solutions are central in the shift to value-based care and to meeting the demands of patient consumerism. Hurdles remain, but all primary players in the healthcare ecosystem, patients, providers and payers, are seeking more and better data, platform interoperability, real-time and actionable analytical insights, and more effective engagement.
There are a growing number of examples demonstrating compelling and creative uses of data provided by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies.
HHS provides a wealth of open data sources and APIs. Industry, researchers and media have been able to put these data assets to good use, creating significant economic value, informing the public and improving public health.
Big data for healthcare analytics final -v0.3 mizYusuf Brima
Sources of Big Data in Health (a comparative description of national and international data sources and identification of new/emerging sources of data)
By leveraging Big Data, the healthcare industry has an incredible potential to improve lives. This session will give examples of how data volume, velocity and variety is transforming the “art” of a doctor to the science of care. It will describe how the use of machine learning and massive amount of data will drive the new Consumer Drive healthcare movement.
Part of the "2016 Annual Conference: Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics" held at Harvard Law School on May 6, 2016.
This conference aimed to: (1) identify the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the use of big data in health care and health research, particularly in the United States; (2) understand the way U.S. law (and potentially other legal systems) currently promotes or stands as an obstacle to these potential uses; (3) determine what might be learned from the legal and ethical treatment of uses of big data in other sectors and countries; and (4) examine potential solutions (industry best practices, common law, legislative, executive, domestic and international) for better use of big data in health care and health research in the U.S.
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School 2016 annual conference was organized in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Health Ethics and Policy Lab, University of Zurich.
Learn more at http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/2016-annual-conference.
2016 Overview of significant trends in the life sciences (Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Device and Diagnostics) industry with Regenerative Medicine feature articles.
Impact of DDOD on Data Quality - White House 2016David Portnoy
"The Impact of Demand-Driven Open Data (DDOD) on Data Quality" was presented on April 27, 2016 at Open Data Roundtable held at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
It discusses the data quality problems prevalent in open data and their impact, the origins of the DDOD concept, how it works, progress towards its goals, several use case examples, and how to implement it at other organizations.
More information:
* DDOD http://ddod.healthdata.gov
* Open Data Roundtables https://www.data.gov/meta/open-data-roundtables/
* White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/02/05/open-data-empowering-americans-make-data-driven-decisions
Will Mobile Apps Bring Wound Care Technology to the “Cutting Edge”?Chrissy Stanojev
For wound care providers and other clinicians, 2017 continued to bring about a chaotic storm of healthcare reform based on quality measures, data registry requirements, and documentation standards. As has been previously stated in this journal, it remains to be seen if wound care practitioners will pool their limited resources and harness the power of their electronic health records to battle the “giant of healthcare reform.”1 This country’s push to enact and substantiate quality of care delivery can be seen through the uniting of clinical practice with increasingly sophisticated digital technology that allows for more accurate documentation and communication. For good reason, the focus of this union is being placed on the perspective of the patient (ie, how the patient receives healthcare information). However, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is a need for clinicians to be armed with devices that more easily and effectively facilitate the means to that end. This article will discuss the proliferation of healthcare-related digital apps that are both patient and clinician focused in an attempt to lay a foundation for wound care clinicians to become more technologically savvy and clinically compliant.
https://www.todayswoundclinic.com/articles/will-mobile-apps-bring-wound-care-technology-cutting-edge
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The Digital Medicine Crystal Ball: Unlocking the Future of Real-Time, Precise...Cris De Luca
The last five years have seen an unprecedented eruption in technological and health advances.
These new technologies and products—many undergoing rigorous clinical validation—will have significant direct impacts on diagnosing, preventing, monitoring or treating a disease, condition or syndrome, which in turn will transform disease management and alter business models across industries.
This whitepaper describes the current and future influence of digital medicine on the health ecosystem and highlights how various stakeholders are working to deliver clinically impactful and economically viable solutions in a saturated yet still-emerging business environment.
Topics addressed in the whitepaper include:
How various stakeholders are working to deliver clinically impactful and economically viable solutions in a saturated yet still-emerging business environment
The new roles of traditional healthcare players
How the entrance of new technologies will affect partnership models and business strategies
The future of digital medicine’s regulatory environment
Author: Nicole Fisher
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As chronic diseases are increasingly straining healthcare systems, social factors are gaining importance. Since the birth of social medicine (19th century), we saw many failed attempts to beat the dominance of the biomedical model. Social prescriptions have come, raising hopes that non-biomedical solutions will improve outcomes and optimise resource use. Social Prescriptions connect citizens to support to address social determinants of health and encourage self-care for physical and mental health. Social prescriptions can make us healthier cheaper and with fewer side effects than most drugs. Social prescriptions can become a disruptive force as they can be personalised, improve lifestyle-related diseases, and support non-biomedical issues affected by social determinants of health.
22 Reasons Why Social Media is the Future of Patient RelationshipsNicole Stagg
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This document includes three blog posts recently featured in PharmaVOICE.
The blogs focus on how enhanced access to in-depth health data is impacting an understanding of personhood, the environment around us, and the pharma operating model.
BLOG 1 (Pages 2-7)
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BLOG 2 (Pages 8-13)
Better understanding where and how we live will vastly improve remote patient
monitoring approaches
BLOG 3 (Pages 14-18)
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Send me a note with your comments and feedback. Thanks for reading!
1. FROM: Patricia Guerra
SUBJECT: Social Media and Computing Technologies
DATE: February 6, 2015
Social technologies are becoming a powerful social matrix--a key piece of organizational
infrastructure that links and engages employees, customers, and suppliers as never before (Bughin,
Chui & Manyika, 2014). Among the Social Media tools applied to Healthcare, we can list: Internet
support groups, Media sharing, Message boards and forums, Microblogs, Social games and
challenges, Social networking sites, Online patient communities and Weblogs.
By seeking and sharing information online, health consumers (or “e-patients”) are using Social
Media to become more equipped, enabled, empowered, and engaged in managing their health, care
and wellness (eHealth Report, 2013, p.7). From a Healthcare provider perspective, health workers
are using Social Media to learn from experts and peers, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies
are using it as a marketing tool as well. As patients and providers both move into virtual spaces,
the patient-provider relationship will shift from an authoritative model to a partnership model,
where patients are the primary researchers and providers offer alternative therapeutic options and
information analysis (eHealth Report, 2013, p.13).
As a matter of fact, given the enormous quantity of available data and the ubiquitous property of
the internet, there is trend about crowdsourcing scientific research among citizen scientists.
Kevin Campbell, a professor of Manitoba, tells Newsweek: “With crowdsourcing you can get the
public to do the work for you by making a game out of it.” On Kaggle, users can compete to solve
real puzzles posed by industries and universities, and a leaderboard keeps track of which
competitors are ahead in the “game.” The results, though, are serious. For example, Kaggle users
recently worked on algorithms to predict the health of patients with HIV by finding makers in their
HIV sequences measured by viral load and CD4 counts. The winner was a very unlikely scientist:
Former literature major and college dropout Chris Raimondi of Baltimore bear out 106 other teams
by creating an algorithm that predicted changes in HIV infection severity with 78 percent accuracy
(Jonas, 2014).
On a new website, CrowMed.com, patients who have not been able to get a firm diagnosis can
post their symptoms online to crowdsource an answer, believing that there is “wisdom in the
crowd”. Founded by technology entrepreneur Jared Heyman, CrowdMed lets users offer a cash
reward that goes directly to the “medical detectives” –be they laypeople or physicians – who help
solve their case. Medical detectives may suggest a diagnosis and bet points on others’ suggestions.
Each diagnosis is treated as a stock with a share price that moves based on “demand” for the
diagnosis. CrowMed uses an algorithm to calculate the probability of each diagnosis being correct
according to betting behavior, ranks the diagnoses from most to least likely, and presents the
patient with the top 3 to 6. Mr. Heyman says the idea isn’t to replace doctors, but to come up with
a list of possibilities a doctor might not have considered (Landro, 2013). It’s a vision that falls in
line with one of the current beliefs of the tech industry: that the right answers will inevitably bubble
up if you can just collect enough opinions. And while it’s not clear that this actually gives results
that on average are better than what you’d get from a few visits to specialists, it could theoretically
attract insurance companies by being far cheaper (Brustein, 2014).
2. eHealth Initiative 2006
A report on the use of Social Media to prevent behavioral risk factors associated with
chronic disease
Published November 2013
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Jonas G., (2014) Science’s Amateur Hour.
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Landro L., (2013) The Informed patient: 5 High-Tech Fixes for Patients ---Health Advances
Make It Easier for People to Learn Causes of Illness, Test Results and Cost of Care.
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Brustein J., (2014) Can Crowdsourcing Your Symptoms Reveal What Ails You?
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reveal-what-ails-you