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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

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health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.

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Pfizer is first big pharma to tap Truveta’s real-world data platform

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Truveta’s platform is based on electronic medical record data – updated daily – for more than 50 million people in the US, harvesting anonymised patient care information from tens of thousands of clinical care sites across 42 states.

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What can we learn from women’s health data?

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Analysing real-world health data could help overcome the bias towards men in traditional medical research, says Sensyne Health’s Dr Lucy Mackillop.

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NHS Digital tweaks e-referral system to hospitals

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This will mean that conversations can be directly embedded into the patient’s medical record and clinicians are not required to switch between systems to seek advice from one another. e-RS is designed to provide an easy way for patients to choose their first hospital or clinic appointment with a specialist.

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Five for Friday October 20: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

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One of the great things that helps us with that is that we do have access to the patient's medical records as well as their pharmacy records. So we can really just close the loop for the patient so that they are getting all of their care in one place."

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Taking stock of NHS medicines optimisation

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In Sussex, for example, ICS, CCGs and Primary Care Networks support care home staff to deliver medicines optimisation in care homes. This has improved residents’ medicines usage and released savings to be re-invested in patient care. Devolving governance.

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Connecting with Patients at Home

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Another unique aspect of this model is that all interprofessional team members can access and document within a universal electronic medical record (EPIC). This empowers care providers with critical patient information. It also improves care coordination and eliminates communication gaps.

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