Category: Health Information Technology
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The U.S. Needs a Stronger and Better Privacy Law
By David A. Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer On March 12th, I was honored to testify to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: GDPR & CCPA: Opt-ins, Consumer Control, and the Impact on Competition and Innovation. It was a welcome opportunity to explain why the U.S. needs a stronger and better privacy law than the California Consumer Privacy Act...
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Intel’s Connected Care: The Model to Improving Patient Experience and Lowering Healthcare Costs
By Lisa Malloy, Head of U.S. Government Affairs and Mario Romao, Director of Health and Data Policy at Intel Providing access to high quality healthcare while keeping costs under control is a challenge for many large businesses. Intel, which employs about 50,000 people in the US, has taken major steps to ensure that employees and their families receive high-quality, well-coordinated...
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Data Saves Lives
By Mario Romao, Director, Health and Data Policy At the 2nd European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) Congress, held in Milan 26-28 November I had the pleasure to speak at a session on health data sharing. Whilst doctors are the ones saving lives, data - and the information thereof – are the building blocks of medical knowledge. In the era...
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Innovation in healthcare can revolutionize patient outcomes
By Mário Romão, Health and Data Policy at Intel The statistics are sobering. More than 1 in 3 men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes. Efforts in science, medicine and public health have led to a decrease of the mortality rate in the US (1.8 percent and 1.4 percent per year from 2006-2015,...
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NITI Aayog, TIFR and Intel Establish International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence
By Derek Waxman, Director, Public Policy, Artificial Intelligence and Client Computing NITI Aayog, Intel and TIFR collaborate to set up a model International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) aiming to solve major challenges in India. The center will focus on application-based AI research in healthcare, agriculture and smart mobility. NITI Aayog, Intel and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research...
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Europe, AI, and Genomics – Big Topics Discussed at Digital Day 2018
By Mario Romao, Global Director, Health and Data Policy April 10th was a big day for the digital ambitions of Europe. We saw leaders from 25 nations signing a Declaration of Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), committing to join forces to advance research and deployment of AI, without forgetting the social, economic, ethical, and legal aspects. And a couple of...
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How to Use Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare While Protecting Privacy
By David Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer Technological advancements in health IT have created tremendous possibility for improved efficiency and better interoperability, empowering patients to play a more dynamic role in their healthcare. Increased access to data that can predict health outcomes, and more effective analytical capabilities including artificial intelligence, create tremendous potential to solve some of...
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2018 Bodes Well for Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring
By Mario Romao, Global Director, Health and Data Policy If 2017 ended on a high for telehealth and remote patient monitoring, the start of 2018 also did not disappoint. Indeed, on Feb 9, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 was signed into law. This bill, which provides a budget agreement for 2018-2019, also includes a number of policy provisions in support...
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Winds are Changing for Remote Patient Monitoring
In my last blog post I referenced the launch of the Intel® Health Application Platform for remote healthcare and also the recent solicitation for comments on “Current Year 2018 Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule” (PFS), in which the Centers for Medicare 7 Medicaid Services (CMS) asked for input on how to pay for remote patient monitoring...
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Intel launches the Health Application Platform to Provide Better and More Efficient Care
Intel announced the launch of the Intel® Health Application Platform, software that, when coupled with an Intel-architecture-based design specification implemented by a third-party hardware vendor, can help enable healthcare solution providers to securely and reliably deliver distributed healthcare services and a new standard for remote patient care[1]. As digitization of healthcare systems progresses, more data about patients’ conditions are routinely...
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