Category: Health Records

Invitae to buy health records startup Ciitizen for $325M

Ciitizen, Daily, Genomics, Health Records, Health Tech, invitae, Mergers and Acquisitions, SAN FRANCISCO, Startups, SYN, Top Story / September 8, 2021 September 8, 2021

Combining the two companies would allow patients to access genetic testing and their health records in one place, and make it easier for Invitae to collect and organize health records.

After Google, Microsoft struck out, can Apple get people to use its health records feature?

app, apple, Daily, EHRs, feature, google, Health Records, Health Systems, Health Tech, hospitals, Microsoft, News, SYN, Top Story / September 6, 2021 September 6, 2021

Apple has integrated with 700 providers for its health records app. But it faces a similar challenge to other health records projects that have failed in the past: patient uptake.

After losing his sister to cancer, a former Apple exec wants to make it easier for patients to get their health records

Ciitizen, Daily, EHR, Health IT, Health Records, startup, Startups, SYN, Top Story / August 8, 2021 August 8, 2021

Anil Sethi was the director of health records at Apple until his sister was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, and given weeks to live. After traveling with her to different doctors across the country, and helping carry her records, Sethi created his own company to pull together harder-to-find records, such as scans and pathology reports.

NHS patient data upload delayed by two months, says UK

data privacy, digital, Health Records, News, NHS, NHS Digital, patient data, patients / June 8, 2021 June 8, 2021

The UK’s decision to set back the start date of a new patient data-sharing scheme by two months has been welcomed by privacy campaigners, who have claimed it was being rushed through without sufficient public scrutiny. The centralised database of medical records from 55 million people was due to come online on 1 July, but …

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Apple adds feature to share health data with doctors, loved ones

Apple Health, Apple Health Records, Daily, health data, Health IT, Health Records, Health Tech, Interoperability, SYN, Top Story / June 7, 2021 June 7, 2021

Apple is adding a feature that would allow people to share their health data with trusted contacts, such as their doctor or a family member. For example, they could share heart rate data collected by an Apple Watch.

Campaigners challenge NHS England’s latest plan to share patient data

data privacy, Health Records, News, NHS, NHS Digital, patient data, patients / May 26, 2021 May 26, 2021

Remember the Care.data debacle? Now, a new move by NHS England to move the records of 55 million patients into a database that will be accessible by third-party companies is under fire by privacy campaigners, who claim it could be unlawful. The new General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) service was unveiled earlier …

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Startup looking to build the ‘Mint.com of healthcare’ raises $12 million

Daily, Health IT, Health Records, Health Tech, San Diego, Seqster, startup, Startups, SYN, Top Story / April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021

Seqster, a San Diego based company looking to build a platform for patients’ health records, DNA data and wearable data, raised $12 million in a funding round led by OmniHealth Holdings.

The Drive To Standardize Records: Progress or Chaos?

EHR, EMR, Health Records, Health Tech, Merle Bushkin / March 26, 2021 March 26, 2021

By MERLE BUSHKIN I recently asked my Primary Care Physician’s Medical Records Department for copies of my records covering the last eight months during which I had four office visits, five blood draws, and nine brief email exchanges. I should add that my PCP uses one of the two most popular EMR systems. To my …

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What it will take to make health data easier to share

CMS, Daily, DispatchHealth, Health IT, Health Records, Health Tech, HHS, Interoperability, ONC, precision med virtual 2020, SYN, Top Story / December 3, 2020 December 3, 2020

New interoperability rules hold promise in making it easier for patients to access and share their health data. But there’s still a long way to go to make a health records turnkey.

Nonprofit tests app for travelers to meet cross-border Covid-19 requirements

COVID-19, cross-border, Daily, Health Records, Health Tech, Software, SYN, The Commons Project, Top Story, travel / October 25, 2020 October 25, 2020

The app, developed by the Commons Project Foundation and the World Economic Forum, lets travelers share vaccination records, Covid-19 test results and health declarations.