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The Importance of Healthcare Cybersecurity: Best Practices for Protecting Patient Data and Ensuring HIPAA Compliance

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

According to the HIPAA Journal , between 2009 and 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights received reports of 4,419 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records each. Best Practices for Protecting Patient Data and HIPAA Compliance. Why Healthcare Cybersecurity is Important.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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FSAs and HSAs Miss Opportunities to Help Americans

Connected Health Initiative

Do you have a guess when menstrual products were first categorized as allowable expenses for health flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs)? Long-term data is key to understanding health trends and informing preventive health measures.

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

Health Populi

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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DrKumo Wins Contract from ProHealth Partners to Empower Remote Patient Monitoring Technology to More Than 200 Physicians

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

a multi-award-winning leader of Connected Health Technology, announced today its winning contract with ProHealth Partners, a well-established network of primary care physicians and specialists in the Greater Long Beach area with expansion into Los Angeles and Orange County areas with more than 200 physicians spanning more than 80 locations.

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

Health Populi

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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“Seeing Is Not Believing:” Consumers Concerned About the Accuracy of Online Health Information

Health Populi

adults’ use of online search for health information, along with perspectives on the U.S. healthcare system and use of connected health technologies. The two sources most-used for seeking health-related information are medical information websites (THINK: WebMD and Sharecare, for example, used by 53% of U.S.