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Bonus Features – September 25, 2022 – More than 90% of patients prefer providers who offer telemedicine, Sequoia Project releases info blocking resources, and more

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Compliance and certification service provider Schellman released HIPAA Express , a risk assessment tool aimed at HIPAA compliance and OCR audit workflows. Mardjuki returns to the company he co-founded before leaving for leadership roles at Box and American Express.

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Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 15, 2022 – News from Amwell, Epic, Google, MEDITECH, Microsoft, and more, plus the dates for HLTH Europe

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This edition is a special dispatch from HLTH 2022. FINN Partners and Galen Growth concluded that digital health funding in 2022 has focused largely on early-stage companies – but only 1 in 6 companies demonstrate “significant clinical strength.” Research Reports.

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

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Broadband expansion non-profit Partnership for a Connected Illinois recognized StationMD for providing solutions to underserved populations in its 2022 Awards for Excellence in Telehealth Leadership. Magazine’s 2022 Best in Business list in the Rocky Mountain Region.

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American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies

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This is a huge set of tasks, yet at the ATA’s annual policy meeting at the end of 2022, it added a data policy workgroup to its activities. In 2022, it became clear that technical developments were having a large impact on social issues and would inevitably come to affect telehealth. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

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An ONC blog post described how the tool works: Developers answer questions about the type of health data the app will collect, the intended use of the app, and the type of entity developing the app to determine whether the app is subject to HIPAA, the information blocking rule, or other federal laws.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

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A survey of Surescripts users found an 8% increase in the use of electronic prescriptions for specialty medications in the first five months of 2022 compared to 2021. Surescripts also reported a 24% increase in the number of prescribers enrolled in May 2022 compared to May 2021.

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Using AI Responsibly and Ethically in Healthcare

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The Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Office for Civil Rights received reports of 63 breaches of 500+ records in September 2022. The first six months of 2022 saw 337 security breaches affecting 19 million records and costing, on average, $10.1 million patients. million per incident — a 9.4% increase from 2021.