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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. It’s a question posed to me in conversation with Richard Kaufmann, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with Amedisys. JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security?

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Health Populi

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. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. You can read the full HIMSS blog here.

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Privacy and the New Health Ciitizen

Health Populi

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). Deven’s observation is made based on Ciitizen’s study into some 3,000 medical record facilities between August 2018 and May 2019. Deven McGraw is Ciitizen’s Chief Regulatory Officer. [In

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

care innovations

2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. Specifically, the new code allows providers to bill the CMS for time spent collecting and interpreting remotely generated health data.

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Trend 9: More Empowered Consumers Have Access to their Electronic Health Data

Hinduja Global Solutions

Trend 9: More Empowered Consumers Have Access to their Electronic Health Data. With this blog, we describe how the marketplace in 2019 has changed in line with the insight from, Ryan Howells, Principal, Leavitt Partners, who predicted how the healthcare industry has mastered the collection of data.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019. health care. Out-of-network costs?

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