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"About this Research Topic Healthcare narratives (such as clinical notes, discharge letters, nurse handover notes, imaging reports, patients posts on social media or feedback comments, etc.) have been used as a key communication stream that contains the majority of actionable and contextualised data, but which - despite being increasingly available in a digital form - is still not routinely analysed, and is rarely integrated with other healthcare data on a large-scale. There are many barriers and challenges in processing healthcare free text, including, for example, the variability and implicit nature of language expressions, and difficulties in sharing training and evaluation data. On the other hand, recent years have witnessed increasing needs and opportunities to process free text, with a number of success stories that have demonstrated the feasibility of using advanced Natural Language Processing to unlock evidence contained in free text to support clinical care, patient self-management, epidemiological research and audit."

"Perhaps healthcare is now seeing the beginning of unbundling, catalyzed by the same use of technology which allows companies to focus solely on user experience in specific verticals. Some of the first pieces of unbundled healthcare to get venture momentum were direct-to-consumer brands such as Hims, Roman, Keeps, and Nurx. These are examples of companies using technology - such as telemedicine, asynchronous chats, and structured data - to lower costs and reduce friction in various niches of healthcare via a simple subscription business model."

"About AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association ® Discovering Health Insights. Accelerating Healthcare Transformation. AMIA ® (American Medical Informatics Association ®) is a community committed to the vision of a world where informatics transforms people's care. Over the last 35 years, the use of informatics has grown exponentially to improve health and to make better healthcare decisions. Today, informatics is the key to accelerating the current goals of healthcare reform. Every day millions of people benefit from informaticians' ability to accelerate healthcare's transformation by collecting, analyzing and applying data directly to care decisions. Data produced throughout health and healthcare is the driving force of informatics and its ability to innovate critical advancements that directly benefit people. AMIA's members are critical to discovering these insights, which is why AMIA is committed to being the professional home for the informaticians of today and the driver of informatics' future."

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"HealthcareHealthcareThe ongoing "fixing healthcare" discussion at FiRe is focused on the question of how to repair a broken business model, generally seeking ways to bring providers and patients back into primary contact. This area also includes new innovations in healthcare solutions, from the Quantified Self to the new SNS field of Nutritional Microanalysis."

"I propose that beyond investor lack of awareness, hesitancy and risk aversiveness, blockchain-based solutions introduce an existential threat to the business of healthcare and therefore detract investment. Blockchain does not just dis-intermediate heavily-invested and powerful third parties in healthcare, like pharmacy benefit managers, group purchasing organizations, and third party administrators; blockchain changes the economic power balance that drives the current status quo, which represents nearly 20% of the US GDP."

Latest from Alex Cahana on the health ecosystem we are intent on distrupting.

Suggested by Gina Soloperta Abstract Background: Due to striking disparities in the implementation of healthcare innovations, it is imperative that researchers and practitioners can meaningfully use implementation determinant frameworks to understand why disparities exist in access, receipt, use, quality, or outcomes of healthcare. Our prior work documented and piloted the first published adaptation of an existing implementation determinant framework with health equity domains to create the Health Equity Implementation Framework. We recommended integrating these three health equity domains to existing implementation determinant frameworks: (1) culturally relevant factors of recipients, (2) clinical encounter or patient-provider interaction, and (3) societal context (including but not limited to social determinants of health). This framework was developed for healthcare and clinical practice settings. Some implementation teams have begun using the Health Equity Implementation Framework in their evaluations and asked for more guidance. Methods: We completed a consensus process with our authorship team to clarify steps to incorporate a health equity lens into an implementation determinant framework. Results: We describe steps to integrate health equity domains into implementation determinant frameworks for implementation research and practice. For each step, we compiled examples or practical tools to assist implementation researchers and practitioners in applying those steps. For each domain, we compiled definitions with supporting literature, showcased an illustrative example, and suggested sample quantitative and qualitative measures. Conclusion: Incorporating health equity domains within implementation determinant frameworks may optimize the scientific yield and equity of implementation efforts by assessing and ideally addressing implementation and equity barriers simultaneously. These practical guidance and tools provided can assist implementation rese

"Cahana broke down the possibilities presented by distributed ledger technology. "Blockchain offers an operational environment that allows us to analyze data at its source. We don't need to create these huge data banks that can be hacked and manipulated. We don't need to bring the data to the algorithm, the algorithm can go to the data. It is called federated learning which is like machine learning together with privacy-preserving technologies," said Cahana. "The idea of introducing a whole token economy into healthcare is to transform people from health service consumers to health and wealth producers. As opposed to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, genomics, telemedicine, and all these things that are innovative and are general-purpose technologies that make things faster, better and cheaper, blockchain really is disruptive in the business model. It really transforms digital healthcare from patient-centric to patient-driven. People can drive their own health similar to how they invest in their wealth.""

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: Our Mission To put compassion at the heart of healthcare through programs, education and advocacy. Our Vision: A world where all who seek and provide healthcare experience compassion.

"Building on the successes of our events in Philadelphia and Jersey City, we are excited to be back where it all began - San Diego.  Please join us for the most thought-provoking Precision Medicine event in the marketplace. Our speakers cover the panoply of leaders in the healthcare continuum, these include clinicians, industry experts, academics, regulators, payers, genetic counselors, bioinformaticians, and many more who are shaping the way Precision Medicine is implemented into healthcare systems on a global scale. Join us for panel discussions, keynotes, "Meet the Expert", roundtables, networking, exhibits, and opening reception to hear from thought leaders who are making the promise of Precision Medicine a reality. "

"With approximately 133M Americans (more than 40% of the US population) suffering from one or more chronic diseases, the healthcare community is looking for more effective and efficient ways to manage chronic diseases. Part of that pursuit is in finding sustainable ways to help patients better understand their conditions and manage their health by empowering patients, connecting them to information, care, and therapies in ways they want. Join fellow innovators to work on a challenging, multi-faceted, meaningful opportunity to advance clinical care, quality of life, and outcomes for nearly half the US. How can we improve patient literacy and clinical understanding? How do we help patients feel more in-control of their medical care? What can be done to help patients understand when and where they should seek care? These are just some of the pain points begging for thoughtful, tech-enabled solutions."

"PHE is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation focused on pioneering a new model of healthcare transitioning from a siloed "sick care" & "parts care" system to one that is delivering patient-centered holistic, connected, collaborative and compassionate care focused on the health, healing and well-being of the entire healthcare team and ecosystem."

DeAunne Denmark, MD, PhD - OUR CORE PREMISE: To improve health, we must close the gap between what we know and what we do. "INGH has a new facility and venture that is the best I've seen anywhere to get a whole slew of high-resolution data collected in one shot. And supposedly, it is "not that expensive"...

Dr. Cahana mentioned he is speaking tomorrow morning at The Virtual Blockchain in Healthcare Symposium #VBIHS2021   This link is a 9-hour feed from day one.  Lots to skim through. I suspect there is some great information to be 'mined' from all this. 

"It is therefore imperative to invest in decentralized and privacy preserving technologies, like blockchain, verifiable computing and federated learning to create cyber-resilient systems. We need to invest in providing self-sovereign digital identities (DID) to all (SDG 16.9), because without an identity we are invisible. We are unable to access healthcare, vote, open a bank account, get employment and at risk for exploitation and trafficking. Owning our digital identity provides accurate population data, while governments and organizations can monitor key demographics, public health indicators and deliver basic human services and socio-economic planning without the risk of surveillance and exclusion."

"Abstract The digital revolution is disrupting the ways in which health research is conducted, and subsequently, changing healthcare. Direct-to-consumer wellness products and mobile apps, pervasive sensor technologies and access to social network data offer exciting opportunities for researchers to passively observe and/or track patients 'in the wild' and 24/7. The volume of granular personal health data gathered using these technologies is unprecedented, and is increasingly leveraged to inform personalized health promotion and disease treatment interventions. The use of artificial intelligence in the health sector is also increasing. Although rich with potential, the digital health ecosystem presents new ethical challenges for those making decisions about the selection, testing, implementation and evaluation of technologies for use in healthcare. As the 'Wild West' of digital health research unfolds, it is important to recognize who is involved, and identify how each party can and should take responsibility to advance the ethical practices of this work. While not a comprehensive review, we describe the landscape, identify gaps to be addressed, and offer recommendations as to how stakeholders can and should take responsibility to advance socially responsible digital health research."

"New findings from a study of thousands of healthcare workers in England show that those who got COVID-19 and produced antibodies against the virus are highly unlikely to become infected again, at least over the several months that the study was conducted. In the rare instances in which someone with acquired immunity for SARS-CoV-2 subsequently tested positive for the virus within a six month period, they never showed any signs of being ill."

The COVID-19 pandemic makes it necessary for leading experts from across disciplines and geographies to come together to jointly address the challenges we are facing when coping with the disruptive nature of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is having on our healthcare system and our society as a whole. The tasks upon us are enormous and include besides decoding the virus and scaling diagnostics, tackling COVID-19 within existing healthcare systems, building health data platforms that support COVID-19 focused health care, accommodating clinical trials in the era of COVID-19, and developing functional vaccines and therapeutics. The next PMWC 2021 on January 25-27 would be a virtual conference and will touch upon these critical developments and ongoing activities while also including the regulatory and investment sides that influence clinical advancements.

Recommended by Tyler Orion- "As the future of our healthcare system moves towards electronic healthcare records, we need patient data ownership rights to protect patient care. 4 Principles 1. Patients co-own or fully own every health data point about themselves. 2. Health data generated about the patient by a provider is co-owned by both parties. 3. Health data generated by the patient is fully owned by the patient with a right to possess, share, sell, or destroy. 4. All uses of a patients' health data shall be consented in advance by the patient, other than uses required by law."

Cahana: I will be moderating two one-hour panels on the use of #Blockchain in #Healthcare and #LifeSciences in our #covidー19 world. Specifically you will learn from our experts: Heather Leigh Flannery, Bernhard Salb, Synho Do and Ahmed Abdulla the latest about current solutions in data privacy, security, sovereignty as well as how to #incentivize data sharing to combat the global challenges we are facing. Many thanks to Caroline Dennis for her impeccable organization and the Boston Blockchain Association (BBA) Association for supporting this event.