Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

Suddenly, a user with minimal computer literacy and no programming or data science training whatsoever could ask an AI-based application to create a response to a question in simple everyday language, regardless of complexity of the underlying subject matter. The release of GPT3 in late 2022 changed all of that.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This week, the news broke that a data breach at the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital had exposed private health information on nearly 10,000 people. According to a story appearing in the Boston Globe, an authorized third party got to data stored in software used by MGH researchers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

An incident response plan is essential to provide impacted parties with a clear understanding of the protected health information (PHI) and/or electronically protected health information (ePHI) that was compromised, when the incident occurred, and what action is being taken by the organization.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) called on three telehealth companies to protect their patient’s sensitive health data. Who Is Protecting Patient Health Information? Sign up for newsletters here. Read More

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This video contains a wide-ranging discussion between Rubel and interviewer John Lynn about the current applications and future possibilities of synthetic data, LLMs, and generative AI. In all these cases, well-trained AI can work much faster and more cheaply than a human consultant.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 24, 2024

Here's a breakdown of how they work and their potential: What exactly are Personal health LLMs? LLMs are essentially AI models trained on massive amounts of health data and text. What can Personal health LLMs do? Data Privacy: Security and privacy of personal health data is paramount.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

Data Must Lead to Better Outcomes – Divurgent According to Hannah Ellerbee, Chief Customer Officer at Divurgent , health data was a hot topic of discussion in the ViVE2023 exhibit hall. However, what she didn’t hear enough of, was how that data was leading to better outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. What do I mean? So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox , points out that doctors haven’t been trained to use the Z codes, but that training will improve. The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

In a move highlighting the significance of upholding health data privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and MedEvolve, Inc. Insurance companies, HMOs, company health plans, and government programs like Medicare and Medicaid Health Care Clearinghouses.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

AI algorithms that are trained on limited or poorly representative data sets can exhibit signs of bias in their results, skewing decision-making and possibly leading to ethnic, gender, and social discrimination and other unintentional consequences for the patients they serve.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

In a move highlighting the significance of upholding health data privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and MedEvolve, Inc. Insurance companies, HMOs, company health plans, and government programs like Medicare and Medicaid Health Care Clearinghouses.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

million for “deceiving consumers after promising to keep sensitive personal data private.” ” Unprecedented in telehealth history, the sharing of sensitive health information in early 2023 is poised to shatter provider naivete about working for large-scale business entities entering healthcare.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

In a move highlighting the significance of upholding health data privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and MedEvolve, Inc. Insurance companies, HMOs, company health plans, and government programs like Medicare and Medicaid Health Care Clearinghouses.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

AI enables analysis of these conversations and the compilation of large datasets to inform better decision-making, identify personnel training needs and pinpoint pain points patients encounter along their journey. Biases can lead to differential treatment and negative patient outcomes.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

The FTC announcement clarified that email addresses constitute personally identifiable health information because email addresses identify visitors as people seeking mental health care. “Personal information” may be “health information” simply due to the nature of the product or service.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Defense is doing with its CMMC program that will require independent cybersecurity assessments of large and small defense contractors that work with sensitive information. Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

It involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare data to support decision-making, facilitate communication, and improve healthcare outcomes. The field encompasses a wide range of technologies, such as electronic health records (EHRs) , clinical decision support systems (CDSS), telemedicine, and health data analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sharing data in a public health crisis is important for both identifying people who have been infected to stop-the-spread of the virus, as well as sharing personal health information for developing treatments to cure disease. This is consistent with recent survey data demonstrating U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, this week Google made news about how it will absorb the DeepMind AI business into the larger Google Health unit. Some analysts and privacy lawyers question how Google will handle patients’ (assumed private) health data, a volatile question for the UK’s National Health Service as I draft this post.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ever since data went online, health care organizations and others have been struggling to provide useful data for advanced analytics while guarding Protected Health Information (PHI). Time to access data can be reduced by 95% or more, lowering costs and speeding time to value.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

The experts said the keys to modern cybersecurity including managing assets, access, networks, infrastructure, and data , along with continuous threat monitoring and tried-and-true training that meets employees where they are. Read more… Turning Health Data Sharing Into Meaningful Outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Optimize Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience. Simply collecting patient data and giving it to providers isn’t enough any more. Read more… Connect Hospitals and Health Systems to Patient Apps and Health Information.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Many of the currently trending AI models are trained on billions of parameters. As stakeholders within the healthcare ecosystem, we must be very mindful of how we use AI to help organizations gather the data and insights they need without mismanaging patients’ personal health information or sacrificing their privacy rights.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 10, 2023

One of the early pioneers of open source software in healthtech was the World Health Organization (WHO). In 1996, the WHO released the first version of the DHIS (District Health Information System) software, which is an open source platform for collecting and managing health data.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

Understanding Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Definition and concept RPM involves the use of technology to collect and transmit patient health data from remote locations to healthcare providers for assessment and intervention. The system is customizable to meet the unique needs of individual patients and healthcare organizations.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 21, 2021

As modern technology becomes indispensable in health care, the vulnerabilities to cyber-threats continue to increase, compromising the health information and safety of millions of people. Health care is the only industry globally for which the biggest threat to data breaches comes from internal sources.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 13, 2024

These digital repositories of patient health information offer numerous benefits, including improved accuracy, accessibility, and efficiency in healthcare delivery. RPM devices collect vital health data, such as blood pressure, heart rate, glucose levels, and more, enabling continuous monitoring and early detection of health issues.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The Argonaut Project is a collaborative effort between the healthcare industry and the technology industry to develop and implement standards for exchanging electronic health information (EHI). Promoting the Argonaut Data Exchange API. Developing a new standard for sharing patient-generated health data.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 22, 2023

Wearable devices: These are devices that are worn on the body and can track health data such as heart rate, sleep, and activity levels. Health information technology (HIT): This refers to the use of information technology to store, manage, and analyze healthcare data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

As a result, health data is creeping into cloud-based tools where it becomes exposed to very new and very real security threats – some of which healthcare organizations have never had to deal with before. It helps when it’s adapted to the modern workforce by making training more point-in-time and engaging.

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