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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

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The second bar chart shows records breached by month from August 2017 through January 2018. And it’s in personal health information: a medical record is valued 8 to 10 times the price of a credit card on the black market. Why are medical records such attractive candidates for bad cyber-actors?

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Consumer Trust, Privacy and Healthcare – Considering #HIMSS18 in the Stark Light of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

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We who work in healthcare must pose the questions: going forward, how trusting will patients, consumers and caregivers be sharing their personal health information (PHI)? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

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Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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ONC Data Brief: Few Hospitals See Patients Active with Portal Use

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Although nearly all hospitals provided patients with the ability to electronically view and download their health information in 2017, most of the organizations had fewer than 25 percent of patients activate access to the hospital’s patient.

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Xealth and Stel Life Team Up, Connecting Patient Health Devices and Care Teams via Cellular Networks

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Patients use wireless health devices near a Stel Hub. Stel passively and securely connects the device data to their care team’s Electronic Health Records (EHR) or preferred platform without risking Protected Health Information (PHI) or complicated workflows. Xealth spun out of Providence St.

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

This is important because in 2017, one in four new drugs approved by the FDA were designed to treat a small population, falling. The team analyzed data-sharing guidelines across 230 policy documents published between 1996 and 2017. into the precision medicine category. Note that autonomy and privacy rank with the most mentions.

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

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Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. A big piece of addressing the cybersecurity healthcare challenge is educating people who work in healthcare settings, and that has been under-funded.