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What Happens if You Violate HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

If you, as a behavioral health professional, violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you must follow certain obligations and procedures to rectify the situation. Below then, is a suggested list of steps for a practitioner who wonders, “What Happens if you violate HIPAA?”

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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The 'internet of healthy things' poses unique privacy challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Wearables and other remote patient monitoring tools have expanded patient care beyond the walls of brick-and-mortar clinics. Connected Health Initiative Senior Policy Counsel Brian Scarpelli believes that the virtual care environment is here to stay. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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healthcare and technology leaders urge the 118th congress to continue the promise of digital health

Connected Health Initiative

The Promise of Digital Health Exists, Connected Health Initiative Urges Congress to Achieve Potential January 31, 2023—Today, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released its priorities for the 118 th Congress. Number of U.S. Full details of CHI congressional priorities can be read here.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Do read this entire report if you have any role to play with health IT and building consumer trust with their personal electronic records as well as growing adoption of digital health tools (including apps, wearable tech, and remote health monitoring devices) in and beyond the pandemic.

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Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Populi

Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’ physician and hospital reviews, tracking activity, donning wearable tech, and engaging in live telehealth consultations with providers, as the first chart shows.

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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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