Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Lead Data Architect – Healthcare position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Vytalize Health and is remote in the US. You will work across our ecosystem, ensuring consistency or representation and accuracy of data dictionaries.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

All practices must comply with HIPAA, as well as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). A few examples are obtaining permission to share information with third parties, having patients “opt-in” to communications, and putting the right data security measures in place. The first step is using a HIPAA-compliant telehealth solution.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In today’s technologically advanced world, the healthcare system is also undergoing a rapid digital transformation, especially in regard to data storage and protection. Hospital records contain sensitive data, including diagnostic details and sensitive personal health information. What is HIPAA? healthcare legislation.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Deep learning traditionally involves funneling huge data sets into layers of software to produce actionable insights. Loyal, I’m told by Sharma, created one of first HIPAA-compliant chatbots. Loyal respects HIPAA with two major design choices. Loyal also tracks patient responses and suggests new topics to the clinician.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a consumer fraud settlement against a company that displayed a ‘HIPAA Compliant’ seal on its website.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

For healthcare providers and professionals working in healthcare, data security is of utmost importance. Federal guidelines like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) outline the responsibility of healthcare providers when it comes to creating, analyzing, and distributing Protected Health Information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

General were not participating in data sharing. As data sharing initiatives gain momentum, including TEFCA nationally and the Data Exchange Framework in California, it’s an important reminder that data sharing advancement is more than a policy or technological discussion.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. They also handle large volumes of data effortlessly within their hospitals. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2023

We kick off this episode with a discussion on data privacy. Next, we talk about Zero Trust policies and how being data-centric is crucial to making it work. McDonald then shares with us how to leverage emerging technologies to achieve HIPAA compliance to take the compliance burden off the shoulders of healthcare workers.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? A solid foundation in data infrastructure, security, and privacy protocols is crucial for anyone in 2024 looking to succeed in the healthcare industry.

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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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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. We now have three years of data on the impact to the Medicare Trust Fund," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

For the 68th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Topics We Want to Stop and Start Talking About. However, my […] For the 68th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Topics We Want to Stop and Start Talking About. Patient access to data. Ransomware.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jon Stewart, Co-Founder and President at ZenSource Historically, the terms “patient data,” “open-source,” and “healthcare CMS” might have seemed incongruous. Below are 4 tips to enhance patient data security when utilizing open-source in a modern healthcare CMS platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more. Yes, and the EHR has patient data too. Sometimes the data just isn’t processed in a timely manner.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This position will perform the above in accordance with the Patient Safety and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Acts, The Joint Commission (TJC) and other regulatory agencies. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 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

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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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

JUNE 9, 2023

See the first article in this series on lab testing and health IT. So Church says that labs are now collecting data about the patient in order to request pre-authorization from payers. Much of this data, like other medical information, goes by phone or fax. Their service collects orders and other data from EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Priority Screening Date: March 26, 2023 at 11:59pm. Application materials received after this date will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until positions are filled.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. The patient is worried about privacy and data security.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As more healthcare data is sent to the Cloud, security takes center stage. But the fact of the matter is the vast number of documents in the health sector that need to be scanned, printed, and secured proves the Cloud to be the most viable and reliable option.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Since remote and hybrid employees need to be able to collaborate anytime, anywhere, and from multiple devices, many healthcare organizations are adopting cloud infrastructure and rethinking their overall approach to data security. Top Challenges to Expect Many of the top challenges the healthcare sector faces are shared by other industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

This support can take many forms, but digital transformation consistently leverages more data which requires increased storage and computing power. In fact, global data creation is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes by 2025. It is reported that about 80% of healthcare data is unstructured and untapped after it is created.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with Epic application analysis! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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