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Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. patients to improve their engagement and independent health management. In fact, the wave of patient portal deployment wasn’t caused by patients’ interest.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

Comments are due February 12, 2019.) In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

Comments are due February 12, 2019.) In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

We all should know by now that the most kind thing a carer can say to a Patient in 2019 with a chronic condition is “Here’s my mobile number” and that obviously doesn’t require anyone to have a smartphone as you can benefit from this if you just both have even the most basic mobile phones.