Three weeks ago the 13-year-old weighed just nine kilograms (20 pounds) when she was admitted to al-Sabeen hospital in Yemen’s capital Sanaa with malnutrition that sickened her for at least the past four years. Now she weighs 15 kilograms. “I am afraid when we go back to the countryside her condition will deteriorate again due… Read More »
This was a Christmas present we had not expected, but as you can imagine this baby, of good appearance, has become quite a favourite with the staff – notes taken at Bendigo and Northern District Base Hospital, dated 19/2/1969 The baby was 7lb, 10oz and 19.5 inches long when she was born in the early hours… Read More »
Dive Brief: Aetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation, IBM and PNC Bank are teaming up to design and develop a blockchain network aimed at improving transparency and interoperability in healthcare. The goal is an inclusive blockchain network that members of multiple organizations across the healthcare ecosystem can use to securely share personal health information. Potential… Read More »
With population health management supported with analytics becoming a top priority for many healthcare organizations, so is the need to collect data and clean it of duplicate information to better identify and manage patients across all settings of care. That is the impetus for Valley Health System in Ridgewood, N.J., which has selected enterprise identification… Read More »
Brief Published Dec. 13, 2018 Dive Brief: The HHS Office for Civil Rights is seeking input on how the HIPAA privacy rule could be tweaked to better support the move to value-based, coordinated care, while still protecting personal health information. The request for information asks for ideas on removal of regulatory barriers to ease care coordination… Read More »