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3 Ways to Achieve HIPAA-Compliant Communication for Behavioral Health

Healthcare IT Today

All practices must comply with HIPAA, as well as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Technology plays a crucial role in HIPAA-compliant communication for behavioral health. Embracing Secure EHR Software and Patient Portal Effective EHR software helps ensure HIPAA-compliant interactions.

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Mitigating Risk and Reducing Costs with Smart Healthcare Records Management

Healthcare IT Today

Additionally, it plays a pivotal role in meeting regulatory compliance standards, such as HIPAA and SOC 2 and 3, safeguarding patient privacy, and maintaining the integrity of healthcare data. Regulatory compliance, such as adherence to HIPAA, becomes even more critical in the digital landscape, where the risk of data exposure is heightened.

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Key Cybersecurity Defenses for the Healthcare Sector

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, only 24% of healthcare organizations have multi-factor authentication (MFA) policies in place, which is an essential component of a modern security strategy. Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI).

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Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

You will be a thought partner with business stakeholders, understanding company goals and ROI, and collaborating on strategies and approaches. You will bring your extensive experience ingesting and managing healthcare data at scale to support our analytics, automation, and machine learning teams.

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Planning for a sustainable virtual care delivery model

AMD Telemedicine

Becker’s ASC Review noted that while it usually takes months or years to deploy a customized telehealth platform, organizations needed to pivot their strategies to virtual care in mere weeks. When the pandemic hit, many health care providers didn’t have the luxury of time to do all this work.

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Mary Washington Healthcare Partners with Caregility to Pioneer Inpatient Virtual Engagement and Virtual Nursing Program

Digital Health Global

We applaud Mary Washington Healthcare’s commitment to innovation and workforce enablement as a pioneer of Virtual Nursing,” said Pete McLain, Chief Strategy Officer at Caregility. Candidates are invited to learn more and apply at mwhccareers.com. “We This team’s efforts rival those of national health systems, many of which are following suit.

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IT Infrastructure Needs in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. We need to consolidate data stores, continuously update and maintain data protection mechanisms, provide diverse resiliency strategies and vigilantly analyze access behaviors. Shawn Van Doren, Chief Strategy Officer and Partner at Intellis.