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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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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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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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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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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E-CareManagement

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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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