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Employee Fired for Inappropriately Accessing EHR Records

Healthcare IT Today

I have also seen HIPAA training courses that don’t educate staff that HIPAA lives on and protects health information for 50 years after a patient dies. While there is no mention of criminal charges in the DCH Health Systems notice, this incident might be being investigated for criminal intent. retained for 6 years.

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Reimagining Health Tech on the Cusp of ONC’s Final HTI-1 Rule – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

EHR Development Standards: New teeth, bigger bite After years of dashed hopes that EHR workflows will achieve true interoperability and allow patients to easily access and share their healthcare data, many are looking at the ONC’s final standards with a skeptical eye and cautious optimism. There’s no time to waste.

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Dichotomy Was the Through Line at AHIMA23

Healthcare IT Today

Dichotomy of Healthcare Dr. Zeev Neuwirth opened the 2023 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA23) conference and spoke about the dichotomy of healthcare. mRNA vaccines, ambient voice scribes, and of course AI. He shared with the audience that is simultaneously frustrated at and excited by our industry.

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The Risks and Concerns of Ambient Clinical Voice Technology

Healthcare IT Today

Detlef Koll, Vice President Global R&D at 3M Health Information Systems Individual users will need to be diligent in reviewing draft notes to avoid incorrect or incomplete capture of information. Of course, it is fully the patient’s decision whether to employ this technology.

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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. Of course, with every new technology comes abuse of that technology. What do I mean?

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” looking far enough in the future from now to 2030, recognizing that we will have had two U.S.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? Advanced device integration will allow data flow between the providers' EHR and patients' personal devices. Telemedicine offers a future where patients and providers are empowered with health information.