Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Patches Seely, Executive Vice President of Clinical Solutions at Carenet Health Clinicians’ burnout is in both a state of prevention and cure.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The following is a guest article by Shawn Fergason, Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Technology Services at MediQuant Securing healthcare data archiving is not just good practice – it’s essential for safeguarding confidential patient information and should be a cornerstone of a healthcare organization’s cybersecurity program.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Secure Configurations: Proper configuration of network devices and software will reduce the attack surface for bad actors and greatly improve an organization’s cybersecurity defenses.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Secure Configurations: Proper configuration of network devices and software will reduce the attack surface for bad actors and greatly improve an organization’s cybersecurity defenses.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Secure Configurations: Proper configuration of network devices and software will reduce the attack surface for bad actors and greatly improve an organization’s cybersecurity defenses.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Secure Configurations: Proper configuration of network devices and software will reduce the attack surface for bad actors and greatly improve an organization’s cybersecurity defenses.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity. One of many questions for U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2024

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AUGUST 12, 2021

As connected devices proliferate within health care enterprises and across the health care ecosystem, cybersecurity risks abound. These technologies are emerging from both the medical-tech developers as well as consumer-grade and -facing companies: think HIMSS and RSNA vis-a-vis CES/the Consumer Technology Association.

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APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

Managing health data is no longer as simple as archiving it for the odd retrieval by a clinician down the road. Today, health data is a strategic asset. Mining that data can lead to critical operational and clinical insights. We now health data for operational insights. and Is that archive secure?

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JULY 27, 2022

Supporting the medical community for research and innovation, physician-patient relationships, and bolstering public health. Central to Apple’s health support for consumers is putting “health data in one place,” a goal on which the Apple Watch and the Health app have been built.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Marcus Perez at Altera Digital Health about helping providers solve cash flow and throughput challenges today while planning for care-at-home and other initiatives to support future business growth. Read more… Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Cybersecurity. Houske at OTAVA.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

Continuously scanning for threats, implementing protocols for when a breach occurs, and creating cybersecurity awareness among staff are fundamental to a successful security program. He is responsible for security program strategy, cybersecurity operations, security assessment and audit, and regulatory compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2024

ONC released its Draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and is accepting public comments on the document until May 28. A new report from Diligent and Bitsight indicated healthcare actually outperforms other industries in cybersecurity performance , due in large part to the highly regulated nature of the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

The Ever-Evolving World of Cybersecurity Threats. 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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Given the nation’s lack of lab data standards, there are 40 different ways to code a negative PCR test result. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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Redox

JULY 31, 2023

Get the details Health plan costs expected to increase by 7% PwC researchers predict 2024 health plan costs will climb higher than in the previous two years. Read more Information blockers face stiff penalties Certified health IT developers, HIEs, and HINs are subject to violation penalties starting on September 1, 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The following is a guest article by David Sygula, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at CybelAngel. They are the machines that take your X-rays, and conduct your MRI, CT and ultrasound scans.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

In an ideal world we wouldn’t have to worry about cybersecurity for healthcare. Instead with how deeply personal and important the information and data that we hold is in the world of healthcare, we need to be prepared for the absolute worst. But unfortunately that is just not the case.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Health data continues to grow exponentially. To avoid being drowned in this technology deluge, healthcare providers and health IT vendors are turning to 3rd party infrastructure providers for their systems + data needs. Healthcare applications are increasing in complexity.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor. Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Does the Exchange Allow Participants Full Control Over Their Data?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Interoperability and health data exchange: Ensuring seamless data flow between different systems and platforms. Equity and access to digital health: Addressing disparities in access to technology and ensuring inclusive healthcare. Telehealth and virtual care: Expanding access to care and improving patient convenience.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The most-trusted organizational types noted were financial services providers, digital payment providers, and health care providers — with roughly only 1 in 4 consumers trusting these industry segments for carefully handling personal data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christian Hardahl, Global Health Care Solutions Manager at SAS Patients push to own their health data. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Rock Health’s 2018 survey reinforces what we know-we know about consumers’ willingness to share health data — and that is that the physician, above all health care entities, is the patient’s most trusted data steward. Check out Estonia and Switzerland for case studies on that.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As a result of achieving the de-identified designation, many time-intensive and complex data governance processes can be avoided entirely, such as signing a business associate agreement (BAA) with vendors or reviewing cybersecurity audits of data recipients. Note that Subsalt does not have to store any data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

News and Research More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative. The American Telemedicine Association named three new board members : Marc Adelson at Teladoc Health, Kavita Patel, M.D.,

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JANUARY 3, 2023

At the same time, medtech innovators – whether in digital health, wearables and AI-driven offerings in healthcare, or diagnostics, telemedicine and health IT solutions – continue to face a patchwork of laws, rules and norms across the world. Growing importance of data privacy and security.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

As healthcare organizations turn to edge computing to support the hospital at home and other types of remote care, most rely on outside help, according to the 2023 AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: Edge Computing. Among organizations surveyed, 64% rely on external expertise for project planning and 71% do so for production.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2021

In many areas of health IT, experimentation is good and may ultimately be to the benefit of users. On the other hand, when it comes to telehealth security, it’s looking more and more as though establishing routine practices and following security best practices is a good idea. At present, there’s still a lot of ways […].

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