Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mitchell Perry, VP Compliance & Security at Access In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare IT in US healthcare frameworks, integrating electronic health records (EHRs) has become a cornerstone for providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI). Creating drag-and-drop virtual private networks (VPNs) encrypts and anonymizes data, which can be effective when sharing patient electronic medical records (EMR) or during telemedicine scenarios.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

I started Actium Health with the belief that EMR data was being underutilized. This makes it possible for health systems to ensure access for all patients, but especially for those who need care the most, such as patients at highest-risk for chronic conditions such as breast cancer and heart disease. “I

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Epic Application Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. A senior-level role which serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Epic EMR System.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Today, advanced security measures like encryption and access controls help to protect data from unauthorized access, which is important for patient privacy and allows institutions to comply with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Dan Kompare, Vice President of Information Systems at Harmony Healthcare IT. This is common in healthcare, especially with the merger and acquisition activity that occurs in our industry. A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. The continuous addition of new rich data sources [e.g.,

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic Application Analyst/Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is remote.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“Inpatient Virtual Nursing will allow us to leverage technology to implement flexible care delivery models, simultaneously enhancing quality and experience for patients while providing additional support for our bedside caregivers,” says Christopher Newman, MD, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer at Mary Washington Healthcare. “It

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

The platform is HIPAA compliant and does not require EMR integration to demonstrate results and return on investment.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Google met HIPAA requirements when it pulled together millions of patient records when working with the Ascension health system.

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care innovations

JUNE 6, 2018

Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance with HIPAA. EHR is a synonym for EMR.).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

While providers are bound by both HIPAA and state laws on how to handle medical record requests, as a patient I can tell you that many providers do at most the bare minimum to comply. As I’ve noted before, it’s harder for patients to access their medical records then you might think. In fact, as […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record retention requirements, and the guidelines from several states and the federal government are ambiguous at best.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s basically HIPAA secure email for doctors. Patients love it and doctors are coming around on the idea that these messages can actually save them time since then they don’t have to play phone tag with the patients. All of these messages provide convenient access to the doctor.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

For example, ophthalmologists don’t need to keep up with every aspect of the 21 st Century Cures ACT, HIPAA Final Rules, or new ICD-10 codes, but their EHR vendors should. A compliant EHR that incorporates changes for each specialty (and as the physician enters patient data into the system) helps practices limit regulatory shortfalls.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

HIPAA regulations. The layers of automation required depend on the number of steps, systems, and protocols that your staff, specifically, must navigate to handle patient calls, including: Complex operating procedures. Provider requirements: locations, visit rules, procedures, patient preferences. Clinical safety: screening & escalations.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on how to protect against the most common cyber threats. Million Users.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2021

Cerner has struck a deal in which it will let a life insurance industry data vendor access patient records. Under the terms of the deal, risk management and digital services vendor MIB will be able to offer life insurance industry players access to 54 million patient medical records, as well as 5,400 patient portals. The […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Integrating diverse systems–BD analytics, predictive tools, medical devices, patient portals, EMRs, and more–facilitates real-time information flow, for real time decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The following is a guest article by Lauren Riplinger, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is the tale of a quiet effort by Facebook to take over (more of) our lives, in this case by sliding laterally into the healthcare business and collecting data on our medical habits. What I’m about to share draws on a story appearing in The Atlantic laying out how Facebook might be able to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2020

A quartet of patients has filed a class-action suit against an Alabama based hospital group detailing the harm they allegedly suffered after a ransomware attack hit their local hospitals. According to a news story, patients seen at the three hospitals run by Ala.-based

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2020

One of the things my family did a number of times as a child was to choose a family that we’d surprise with small gifts every day for 12 days before Christmas. My mom was always really creative and would turn the 11 Pipers Piping into a pipping hot pie or something delicious like that. […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. According to an investigation by ProPublica and German radio and TV network Bayerischer Rundfunk, medical data of more than 5MM U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2019

What rules should be in place to guide the donation of patient medical data after that person passes away? One group of ethicists and lawyers may have at least a partial answer to this question. The group, which met late last year at the Oxford Internet Institute, has created a proposed ethical code to tackle […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2019

The University of Chicago, its medical center and Google have been hit with a lawsuit contending that the hospital shared hundreds of thousands of patient records with the tech giant which included identifiable data. The suit was filed on behalf of Matt Dinerstein, who stayed at the University of Chicago Medical Center twice in June […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2019

Earlier this month, I wrote a blog item laying out some of the problems Epic is facing in getting its clients to share de-identified patient data among themselves. In sum, I concluded that while it might have the right idea, getting providers to pony up their data is no picnic. Of late, Epic has been […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

In what may be the nightmare scenario for most health IT leaders, a post-acute care provider has entered into a legal battle with a former vendor over access to its patient data. In the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, Post Acute Medical accuses vendor, Meridian Hospital Systems Corp., of refusing […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It’s bad enough that hospital data breaches are so common. What’s worse is that the bulk of those breaches apparently disclose sensitive data which could help the thieves steal from the breach’s victims.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

The healthcare staffing crisis is also putting severe margin pressure on organizations. Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. Inovalon is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Learn more about Inovalon: [link]. Transcript. [00:00:09]

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