Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. which it said shared sensitive healthcare data inappropriately. Online mental provider Cerebral, Inc.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Exec Summary: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the future of health data, empowering individuals to take control of their information and fostering a more secure, transparent, and patient-centric healthcare ecosystem. This offers more control over their privacy and minimizes data oversharing.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

“…the average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors” — McKinsey analysis. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog. It’s part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy?

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a number of personal health data challenges for both healthcare organizations and private businesses alike. The article COVID-19 and The Health Data Security Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. By Mathieu Gorge, CEO and founder, VigiTrust.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2020

When most of your patients hear “health data rights,” they likely think of HIPAA, or the long forms they rarely read in their doctors’ offices. What they may take for granted is the protections for health data that covered […].

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E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. Miller, Jr.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 13, 2019

“…the average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors” — McKinsey analysis. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog. It’s part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy?

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

In the previous post of our series we described the “ Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”. Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? Read the full post on The Health Care Blog.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

In a move highlighting the significance of upholding health data privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and MedEvolve, Inc. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. However, only 44% would be willing to share their personal data with a national database, a MITRE study learned. adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 20, 2019

In the previous post of our series we described the “ Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”. Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? Read the full post on The Health Care Blog.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2020

OCR (Office for Civil Rights) inside of HHS which is in charge of HIPAA enforcement has issued another notice of enforcement discretion. Roger Severino, OCR Director, announced that OCR will exercise it’s enforcement discretion and not impose penalties for violations of certain HIPAA provisions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 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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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Despite HIPAA's right of access rule, and CMS and ONC prioritizing consumer access in their forthcoming 21st Century Cures regs, a new scorecard shows that providers have work to do.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Insurance & HIPAA Privacy? MITRE-Harris Poll Examines Dark Side of Insurance Privacy Here’s a chilling thought: health insurance companies and employers routinely search through private and public sources for consumer-generated health data related to their spending and streaming habits. A … Read more.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2019

Call it a HIPAA reboot for the wearables age. A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health apps, wearables and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which was filed by Sen.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

In a move highlighting the significance of upholding health data privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and MedEvolve, Inc. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Suraj Kapa, Chief Medical Officer at TripleBlind Data is arguably the most critical driver of innovation in healthcare today. When you think about it, everything in healthcare hinges on having access to the right data: From developing new drugs and medical devices to allocating scarce resources amidst supply chain issues.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If lawmakers come together on a bipartisan federal privacy law it could result in new rules over health data currently not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) law.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

In a move highlighting the significance of upholding health data privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and MedEvolve, Inc. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ever since data went online, health care organizations and others have been struggling to provide useful data for advanced analytics while guarding Protected Health Information (PHI). Why synthetic data is most secure. Of course, synthetic can’t map real data perfectly while still being private.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

Jane Doe, a patient at UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company in relation to its health data privacy practices. More About Facebook’s Meta Lawsuit & Data Privacy in Healthcare.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

Adding to the growing number of recent FTC investigations about data being shared by telehealth platforms for profit, Cerebral reportedly notified 3.1 million users that their protected health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok. HIPAA investigations don’t occur in a vacuum.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

HIPAA Password Requirements For behavioral health professionals, HIPAA password requirements are an important part of keeping your sensitive health data safe and avoiding HIPAA fines. But what does HIPAA regulation have to say about implementing secure passwords? HIPAA regulation is … Read more.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO at Baffle Healthcare organizations were early adopters for protecting data in the modern environment — from stringent compliance regulations to the need to share health records between offices securely.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ernie Ostic , Chief Evangelist at Manta The healthcare industry creates a vast amount of data each year — roughly 30% of worldwide data — the bulk of which must conform with regulatory standards. A Proactive Approach to Data Incidents Data incidents significantly impact healthcare organizations.

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