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HIM professionals have the power to significantlyand directlyimpact the lives of patients and providers. The Cures Act offers a pivotal opportunity for HIM professionals to become agents of change for patients, shifting the profession from playing a role primarily focused on medical records to a champion for seamless, strategic health information access.

Tuesday, December 1, 2020; 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Join us on December 1, 2020, as we spotlight how application programming interface (API)-forward policies and industry actions are accelerating interoperability. This event will include updates from federal agencies as well as presentations and demos from industry partners that highlight how work underway is advancing innovation and competition in the health IT ecosystem. A panel discussion will also be held at the end of the day.

What should patients do when their doctors office closes, and they need a copy of their medical records? This is especially challenging when a doctor may not have had an EHR, as is the case with many independent practices as well as more rural settings. On September 26, 2020, a tweet from Cait DesRoches, Executive Director of OpenNotes, inquired about how a family member may get access to medical records from her physicans practice that closed, triggering a robust conversation that led to the realization that patients and families are not well informed in these circumstances.

This episode of the THCB Gang included regulars Grace Cordavano (@GraceCordovano) , Deven McGraw (@HealthPrivacy), Ian Morrison (@seccurve), and special guest patient entrepreneur Robin Farmanfarmaian (@Robinff3). We talked about patient experiences, the state of play in health care business, and about new technologies and more. And after tomorrow it gets preserved as a podcast on Itunes & Spotify Enjoy!

Joining me were some of our regulars: patient advocate Grace Cordovano, health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, WTF Health Host Jessica DaMassa, and guests: Tina Park, partner at Diagram & Shannon Brownlee, Senior VP at the Lown Institute. The conversation focused on asynchronous care, the gap between patients & technology, and the Supreme Court ruling on employers’ ability to limit women’s access to birth control coverage. It was a great and engaging conversation with some of the top health care experts in the field.

Some providers have spun up consumer-facing help desks to troubleshoot throughout the journey; those who dont will struggle. We need a new contact person wheres the digital Sherpa? said Grace Cordovano, a patient advocate and digital health consultant. Its not up to the doctor or the receptionist or the patients grandchild.

To better understand the answers to these questions and more about IoT in healthcare, we work with Dell Technologies and brought together this great panel of experts:Mitch Parker, CISO at IU Health (@mitchparkerciso)Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA, Founder, Enlightening Results & Co-Founder of Unblock Health (@GraceCordovano)Wendy Bohner, Global Solution Architect for Health & Life Sciences at Intel (@Wbohner)Steven Lazer, Dell Technologies (@lazer_epic)John Lynn, Founder and Chief Editor at Healthcare IT Today (@techguy)

Every Thursday at 1PM PT/4PM ET we will host a live show with the THCB Gang. The THCB Gang consists of 4-6 semi-regular guests drawn from THCB authors and other assorted old friends of mine, who will shoot the shit about health care business, politics, practice, and tech. It should be fun but serious and informative! It will also be preserved as a podcast on Itunes & Spotify Enjoy Matthew Holt

Implementing telehealth is important during the COVID-19 crisis. Read this article to uncover tips to launching telehealth successfully.

A collaborative health conversation with two experts on policy and regulatory changes in the context of COVID-19