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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

What You Will Do Design, implement, and optimize the schemas and data dictionaries across a broad ecosystem of platforms and vendors Manage the data lifecycle for all source, derived, and exported data ensuring accuracy and consistency Manage the systems that clean, normalize, and translate various data flows in HL7, FHIR, and other common healthcare (..)

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Dock Health Secures $5M in Funding Led by MassMutual with Participation from DaVita Venture Group and August Capital

Healthcare IT Today

“We’re thrilled with the opportunity to propel Dock into the next phase of our journey, enhancing our technology and building out our team to better support the needs of healthcare organizations looking to provide more efficient, highly-reliable and accountable care.”

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MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Tabor pointed out that under the Quality Payment Program, CMS designates alternative payment models including accountable care organizations, episode-based payment models and primary care-focused models. Winter and Tabor also proposed that telehealth technology and services should be required to comply with HIPAA after the PHE.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Many organizations are conducting a full analysis of their sites and some have found more than 50 tools that create privacy risks. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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Impact of Remote Monitoring on Healthcare Costs for Heart Failure Patients

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Healthcare organizations must ensure compliance with strict regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) to safeguard patient information from unauthorized access or breaches.