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What Therapists Need to Know About HIPAA Compliant Communications

TheraNest

Your clients need to feel a certain level of trust to benefit from your services, and a good part of this trust comes from knowing that the information they give you is safe and HIPAA compliant. . If any of these communications contain client information, then they should be secure and HIPAA compliant. But what does this mean exactly?

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HIMSSCast: Common pitfalls of healthcare connectivity and what to do about them

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The relationship between security and HIPAA-compliance. More about this episode: ' The health system of the future will be consumer-centric, wellness-oriented and digitally connected ' Pandemic-era burnout: How EHR vendors are redesigning UI and UX to battle stress. How to maintain security in IoT connectivity.

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Weekly Roundup – December 23, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

New HIPAA Security Rule – and Enforcement – Is Coming in 2024. Mike Semel said updates to the HIPAA Security Rule should be in place by the end of next year , as ONC plans to release a draft rule in the spring. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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The Future of Wearable Devices in Healthcare

Telebehavioral Health Institute

This simple process can allow medical and behavioral professionals to comment on readings or offer broad guidance related to devices that do not transmit digital information and therefore are not included in the definition of wearable devices. To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR.

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M&A notebook: Providers and platforms make big moves

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In New Jersey, meanwhile, Cooper University Health Care and Cape Regional Health System have also recently signed a definitive agreement to merge resources. Verisma HITRUST certified technology integrates with existing electronic health records and ScanSTAT offers HIPAA-compliant partnerships with many EHR systems.

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The Truth About Using ChatGPT for Your Mental Health Practice

TheraNest

They’re definitely not HIPAA-compliant and cannot be trusted with client information. Nowadays, EHRs often include editable templates for everything from progress notes to treatment plans. Wiley is compliant, evidence-based, and works directly within your EHR, so you don’t have to worry about hallucinations or HIPAA violations.

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Patient Requested Restrictions

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Tagging all of the data in an EHR is non trivial, and there is not good advice on how to do that well, say nothing of how to do it without fail. Meaning the text in the regulation should be expressing the kinds of patient requested restrictions that must be allowed, and not expressing that a "flag" on data should be used.

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