Latest California Healthline Stories
Choosing Niche Might Be Key to Success for Health Care Accelerators
Bay Area health care accelerators are taking a specialist approach to the challenge of surviving in a landscape bursting with new ideas for speeding up the evolution of health care delivery.
California, New York Efforts Highlight Shift in Health Data Exchange
With federal funding for electronic health information exchange largely gone, the locus of HIE activity has been shifting to the state and local level. Unique efforts in California and New York could serve as viable options for a large-scale exchange.
Open Data Portal Expands, Now More State Agencies Likely To Contribute
Yesterday, California’s largest state health agency announced plans to release data in hopes of sparking private innovations to improve public health.
Telehealth Program Going Mobile
An increasing number of California hospitals — especially those in remote areas — are using robots to connect specialists with patients in emergency departments and intensive care units. Now, one hospital chain is looking to take the technology mobile through a new partnership.
New UCLA Telehealth Program Part of National Trend
LiveHealthOnline, which allows patients to connect with UCLA Health System physicians through smart phones, tablets and computers, is part of a growing telehealth trend.
Health 2.0: The Customer Is King
Speakers and attendees at last week’s Health 2.0 conference said that giving patients a voice in health care decisions is a priority. The Health 2.0 space has changed from its beginnings as virtual libraries or data storage software to a focus on dynamic personalization and interconnectivity.
Confidentiality of Health Information in PHRs and Mobile Health Apps in California
A California law that went into effect this year goes further than HIPAA by holding many different types of organizations — including some developers of personal health records and mobile applications — to confidentiality standards and medical data disclosure rules that traditionally have been reserved for health care entities.
L.A. County Aims To Transform Health Care With New EHR System
In an ideal world, patients’ health data would follow them when they move from one health facility to another. In Los Angeles County, that’s not possible … yet. But a grand jury report suggests the county’s new electronic health record system could become a model for other cities and counties.
Health Data Sharing Becoming More Attainable but Also More Complex
Is the health care industry ready for a data-sharing revolution? Information technology experts say that while there’s been a paradigm shift in how health data are stored, used and shared, there are still many challenges ahead.
Public Health Information Portal Opens
The state Department of Public Health launched a new online data portal last week so that other public agencies and private innovators can create and design new applications for public use.