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Why You Need to Switch to HIPAA Compliant Telehealth, NOW

Mend

Data breaches or mishandling can also put a practice at serious risk of legal and financial trouble. That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Keeping PHI secure is the main goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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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. So, HIPAA may not apply.

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American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies

Healthcare IT Today

Of course, privacy and AI both make front-page news these days. Concerns over the data protection of individuals dates back to the 1970s. HIPAA was last revised in 2013. The computerization of daily life has evolved from a set of technical decisions to a matter of urgent public policy over the past few decades.

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Providing Useful Anonymized Data for Health Research: Subsalt Finds a Blended Solution

Healthcare IT Today

But Subsalt believes that synthetic data can be made more useful for advanced analytics such as AI/ML, research, and business intelligence as well, particularly when access to the source data is constrained by privacy and security concerns. Of course, synthetic can’t map real data perfectly while still being private.

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Dr. Alexa Will See You Now: Can We Trust Digital Assistants With Our Health Data?

Lloyd Price

In an ideal world, this would flag any potential problems early, allowing patients to get the best care—and, when the patients see their doctor, the healthcare staff would have access to a much better record of their recent medical history to assess the best course of treatment. But of course, this comes with trade-offs.

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Does Your Team Have These Modern Skills to Protect Healthcare Data?

Healthcare IT Today

The modern healthcare IT team must possess an array of emerging skills that allow practices to share data while ensuring that no one but the intended targets gain access to it. Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it.

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