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Amazon Clinic may delay its nationwide telehealth launch

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Warren and Welch asked Amazon executives earlier this month about patient health data privacy and expressed concerns that the platform’s new healthcare service is putting users’ private health data at risk. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Revisiting Some of 2018’s Most Significant Healthcare IT Topics in 2020

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 3 min In our 2018 Healthcare IT Year in Review post, we discussed the four most significant stories of 2018. Three of these topics continued to be front and center in 2019, and we wanted to review the advancements.

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AMA offers further guidance for telehealth rollouts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Healthcare IT News is maintaining an updated guide to many of the companies offering virtual care tools that could help practices manage. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach, Reports Leak of Data On 3.1 Million Users

Healthcare IT Today

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. Online mental provider Cerebral, Inc. The FTC’s proposed order would impose a $7.8

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North Carolina launches new stroke registry linked to NC HealthConnex

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"By connecting to NC HealthConnex, data from a provider's electronic health records can be leveraged to support chronic disease intervention and be used as a valuable tool for the public good," said Burris in a statement. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

In an interview with Healthcare IT News , Dr. Anderson asserted that, “We have this great promise of AI: that it’s going to enable people that traditionally don’t have easy access to healthcare to be able to have access to patient navigator tools.

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How Will IoT and AI Transform the Patient-Doctor Relationship?

Healthcare IT Today

And this is why the role of connected devices in everyday healthcare constantly increases. In fact, 30% of physicians are using remote monitoring devices in 2022, up from 12% in 2016 and nearly double from 2019. These devices are indispensable when it comes to the continuous gathering of reliable health data.