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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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Key Cybersecurity Defenses for the Healthcare Sector

Healthcare IT Today

Unsurprisingly, a recent Gartner Peer Insights survey – Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry – also showed that nearly half of participating healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in the past two years. Policy-based firewall tunnels allow this traffic to pass into the corporate network safely.

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Planning for a sustainable virtual care delivery model

AMD Telemedicine

One McKinsey survey found more than 80% of physicians are offering virtual care services — up from just 13% in 2019 — and nearly all consumers surveyed have used telehealth services at some point during the pandemic. This sudden spike in demand meant practices needed to quickly adapt to new workflows, technology, and training.

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Scaling Virtual Consultations

CiscoHealth

In fact, 71% of providers in this survey said that patient engagement was their top priority. Integrate telehealth workflows into EHR and EMR applications, powering collaboration across the healthcare system with Webex Teams and our SDKs and APIs. Expand your patient’s care team to include experts at other facilities.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.

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How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Healthcare IT Today

In Medical Economics’ 2022 annual survey , providers said increased competition is now one of their top challenges, namely because today’s patients are increasingly willing, for reasons of convenience, to switch doctors. HIPAA regulations. Providers are feeling the squeeze. Clinical safety: screening & escalations.

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HIStalk Interviews Gabriel Orthous, CIO, Central Georgia Health Network

HIStalk Interviews

You have one view of the world through your EMR, whether it’s Epic or Cerner or any type of hospital-based system. But when you get out into the community, you see more of a diversity of EMRs. One is the clinical focus, the EMR perspective of workflow and patient-centered focused around clinical things that have to occur.

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