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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

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These platforms are HIPAA compliant and offer integration with devices and EMRs. Integration with EMR: While EMRs are part of the technology infrastructure in any health system, integrating wearable data from devices into the EMR can help physicians maintain data continuity with the initial in-person visit recorded in the EMR.

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Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

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What You Will Do Design, implement, and optimize the schemas and data dictionaries across a broad ecosystem of platforms and vendors Manage the data lifecycle for all source, derived, and exported data ensuring accuracy and consistency Manage the systems that clean, normalize, and translate various data flows in HL7, FHIR, and other common healthcare (..)

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Amazon Launches New Service Simplifying Healthcare Data Search and Analysis

Healthcare IT Today

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

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Embleema Launches Public Beta of Personal Health Records Blockchain

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Embleema, a Delaware company, emerged from stealth and launched the public beta of its HIPAA-compliant, personal health records blockchain after one year of research and development, the company said on Tuesday. But more specifically, it is designed for patients and providers to share medical records.

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Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Healthcare IT Today

What the EMR Industry Can Learn From Facebook – Seems like people care about Facebook and Healthcare. HIPAA vs HIPPA – Fun Friday – I’m glad some humor made the top list since I enjoy humor as much or more than the next person. Where Are We At With FHIR? Big Bet on FHIR Pays Off.

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HIStalk Interviews Paul Roma, CEO, Ciox Health

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Consumers complain about the cost of getting copies of their electronic information from their providers and Ciox has sued over the HIPAA limitation on how much providers can charge. The reality of the situation is that a large integrated health system has, on average, 17 different EMR systems. It simplifies those things.