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FTC Applies HIPAA-like Breach Notification Requirements to Health Apps and Connected Device Companies

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Last week, the FTC came out with a statement clarifying the intent of their Health Breach Notification Rule when it came to health apps and connected devices.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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The 'internet of healthy things' poses unique privacy challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Connected Health Initiative Senior Policy Counsel Brian Scarpelli believes that the virtual care environment is here to stay. Pritts noted that HIPAA is quite broad – but it doesn't apply to the entirety of health IoT. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

mHealth companies should improve security controls for the most personal health information. As health care grows more omnichannel and distributed, cybersecurity will become more challenging at the point-of-care and a big risk for health care providers under current HIPAA regulations.

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

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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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 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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Validic Integrates with Smart Meter Cellular-enabled Connected Health Devices

Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

a market-leading digital health and personalized care company, continues to expand its healthcare IoT platform with the integration of Smart Meter. “And eliminating the need for patients to pair, sync or connect to Wi-Fi or an app on their phone may improve patient satisfaction and increase the use of their monitoring devices.”

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Consumer Trust, Privacy and Healthcare – Considering #HIMSS18 in the Stark Light of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

Here’s what we-know-we know about health care, privacy, and security: briefly, • HIPAA covers patients’ PHI that is held by covered entities and shared with contracted business associates. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care. billion active monthly accounts.

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How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

With the alarming growth of cyber-threats in healthcare, it’s key for an enterprise health cloud to address security rules, safeguards and specs required by HIPAA. Coming full-circle to Neil’s tweet, about developing health IT with Heart, I remind everyone attending #HIMSS18 the mantra initially coined by Tim Sanders, a Yahoo!

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS. . • Nancy Beavin, Director, Program Delivery, Humana Inc. Dave Cassel, Executive Director, Carequality. Katie Crenshaw, MPA, Senior Manager, Informatics, HIMSS. Michael Hodgkins, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Information Officer, American Medical Association. Steven R. .

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

.” We’re at a turning point in the post-Facebook/Cambridge Analytica and Equifax breach environment, where patients and consumers still believe their health care providers and doctors are their most-trusted data steward. Deven and Vince will teach me more on this evolving challenge that touches all of us.

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#Engage4Health: How Patients Are Morphing Into Healthcare Consumers, for #HIMSS18

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. The frequency of cybersecurity breaches in health systems is a risk factor eroding patient trust.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

I haven’t yet read all 1,244 pages of the Rule, but I gleaned sections on consumer privacy which underpins one of my two pillars on what’s a Health Citizen (FYI, as described in HealthConsuming , the second feature is health care as a civil right in a nation providing universal health care).

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This gets to transparency, regarding how these companies communicate privacy policies to users; and, for health care, this speaks to patients’ concerns about their healthcare privacy. Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Among the top obstacles are lack of access to data-sharing systems coupled with lack of interoperability between health IT investments, preference for paper and phone, and data privacy and security concerns. The second chart details the key barriers preventing clinicians from sharing data with patients.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.”

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

The ONC study revealed that while a growing group of patients access their electronic health records, 1 in 4 patients did not do so due to privacy and security concerns. Baking in privacy by design must be the go-to strategy for health IT developers to bolster patient trust in their electronic health records.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments.

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The Benefits of Connecting Home Blood Pressure Monitors to Remote Patient Monitoring Systems

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

High blood pressure or hypertension, can lead to serious health issues such as heart disease and stroke. To ensure optimal health, it is important to monitor blood pressure regularly. One of the best ways to monitor your blood pressure at home is by using a connected-health blood pressure monitor for RPM.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

But doctors are so burned out on EHR implementations, along with multi-tasking the management of payors and health plan types at this moment of migrating from volume-to-value. The challenge here is how health IT can be designed with the users in mind, and that means both clinicians and patients as users.

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Hypertension Management: A Guide to Remote Patient Monitoring in 2024

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Technology Selection: Choose RPM devices and platforms that align with your clinical goals, considering factors like ease of use, accuracy, and interoperability with existing health record systems. Data Security and Privacy Considerations Data security and patient privacy are paramount in the successful implementation of RPM systems.

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Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Trust is a precursor to health engagement, I learned way back in 2008 when I collaborated with Edelman on the first Health Engagement Barometer in 2008. This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health.

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Personalized Care Company Validic Acquires Trapollo

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2023

a market-leading digital health and personalized care company, has acquired the assets of Trapollo LLC , a connected health, technical support, and device logistics provider that helps healthcare organizations care for patients at home. Validic Inc. , Trapollo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cox Communications, Inc.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

In a few short weeks, the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) is set to deliver an official recommendation on the topic of Stage 3’s patient engagement requirements to the ONC. The final rule is expected to drop sometime in Q1-Q2 of 2015 – just one year away. But that doesn’t mean there’s a year to put off thinking about it.

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A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In other countries with fewer payors and health plan sponsors, and more uniform or universal health care financing and provision of services, we have seen more coordination and planning for interoperability — such as the role model health IT ecosystem in Denmark. So with the U.S.

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Top 45 Healthcare Blogs for 2019

eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Total HIPAA Compliance. If you want to keep up on what’s going on with HIPAA ? Mobi Health News is yet another HIMSS Media blog. It is one of our go-to resources for the latest trends and news in the exploding digital health industry. Fierce Health IT. Health IT Consultant. as one should ? Mobihealthnews.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do.

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The Monetary, Clinical and Ethical Value of Patient Data – A View from the UK and NHS

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

In the health/care data ecosystem, stakeholders are addressing the specific challenges related to personal health information (PHI) which HIPAA isn’t covering well in this era of Big Data, cloud computing, and of course, bad actors in the dark cybersecurity breach market. What’s not CGD are data covered by HIPAA.

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Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The announcement this week of Morgan Stanley’s capital influx into Medsphere, an EHR company, is a hint of what more is to come in 2019 as an example of investors’ expanded interest in health IT and new-and-improved healthcare services and business models. So much of these data flows aren’t covered by HIPAA.

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FTC Applies HIPAA-like Breach Notification Requirements to Health Apps and Connected Device Companies

HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

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The 'internet of healthy things' poses unique privacy challenges

A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Validic Integrates with Smart Meter Cellular-enabled Connected Health Devices

Consumer Trust, Privacy and Healthcare – Considering #HIMSS18 in the Stark Light of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

#Engage4Health: How Patients Are Morphing Into Healthcare Consumers, for #HIMSS18

Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

The Benefits of Connecting Home Blood Pressure Monitors to Remote Patient Monitoring Systems

The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Hypertension Management: A Guide to Remote Patient Monitoring in 2024

Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Personalized Care Company Validic Acquires Trapollo

Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Top 45 Healthcare Blogs for 2019

The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

The Monetary, Clinical and Ethical Value of Patient Data – A View from the UK and NHS

Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

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