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Some Telehealth Platforms Are Tracking Sensitive Patient Data: Are They Violating HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Responsible clinicians are likely to ask whether sharing protected health information (PHI) by telehealth companies equates to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Key aspects of HIPAA that might be relevant include: HIPAA requires covered entities (e.g., Clash of the Titans?

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist: How to Protect Patient Data

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare organizations, including doctors, to maintain the privacy and security of patient data. A practical HIPAA compliance checklist is essential to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. What Is HIPAA Compliance?

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Security as the Standard: Utilizing the Cloud for Private Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales at Brother International Healthcare technology development and modern security needs are continually evolving, calling for a shift toward digitization and interoperability to facilitate easier access to information, and more efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

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How Generative AI Can Help With Physician Burnout

David Chou

These significant advancements illustrate the rapid pace at which this technology is progressing, despite the challenges and complexities that it presents. Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS announced HealthScribe, a new HIPAA-eligible service that allows healthcare software providers to develop clinical applications.

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What Does ChatGPT Know About Selecting a Telehealth Vendor?

AMD Telemedicine

Another 18% of those surveyed found that there are compatibility issues with existing systems and workflows, not to mention ongoing data security and HIPAA compliance issues. Training, testing, and scaling are all critical pieces of this puzzle to ensure the effective deployment of any healthcare technology vendor solution.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

As healthcare systems and providers modernize (or build) their technology stacks, it will be more important than ever to prioritize privacy and to understand new regulations at the state level, from HIPAA, and from the FTC. The AHA’s aim was to reduce unnecessary documentation and streamline the coding process.

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How Essen Health Care used an AI virtual care assistant to make thousands of patient calls in just days

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Eleanor conducts calls in both English and Spanish and provides care coordinators with a HIPAA-compliant transcript after each call. Patient answers provide care coordinators with information about their caseload and program-requirement needs for assessment, care plans and documentation. All of this will be applied to healthcare."

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