Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

The specifics of the case and its repercussions for HIPAA business associates are discussed as part of overall HIPAA guidelines for healthcare professionals. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hospital records contain sensitive data, including diagnostic details and sensitive personal health information. This information must be protected to avoid any legal implications and ensure compliance with privacy regulatory laws, like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). What is HIPAA?

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

million users that their protected health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok. Additionally, we can help with: relationship issues and divorce, stress management, anger management, LGBTQI+, grief and loss, traumatic life events, confidence and self-esteem, phobias, coping with illnesses.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Network connectivity is essential to aggregating the data required to build a complete patient record while addressing often forgotten treatment areas, such as adverse medication interactions and provider event notifications. Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability.

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unlike the secure and HIPAA-compliant telehealth video platform provided by TheraNest, Apple’s FaceTime is not HIPAA compliant and therefore should never be used to see clients or complete telehealth sessions. However, even with the bug fixed FaceTime remains a non-HIPAA compliant platform for telehealth sessions.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The FTC press release published on February 1 explained that GoodRx operates a California-based digital health platform making prescription drug discounts, telehealth visits, and other health services available to consumers. GoodRx then used that information to target these users with health-related advertisements.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ever since data went online, health care organizations and others have been struggling to provide useful data for advanced analytics while guarding Protected Health Information (PHI). Data masking, data aggregation, synthetic data, and differential privacy are among the solutions, but each presents difficulties and limitations.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 1, 2023

The Health Affairs study of possible violations of patient privacy in hospitals includes the following: Analyzed 6,162 US hospital and health system websites, including 3,747 identified non-federal acute care hospitals with websites. percent of these hospitals routinely sent sensitive health information to third parties.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. Finally, Sara gives us a glimpse of what’s next for them on their roadmap.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 1, 2023

The Health Affairs study of possible violations of patient privacy in hospitals includes the following: Analyzed 6,162 US hospital and health system websites, including 3,747 identified non-federal acute care hospitals with websites. percent of these hospitals routinely sent sensitive health information to third parties.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More granularly, most consumers (over two-thirds) were concerned about allowing apps or sites to access their location data, online banking, accepting cookies on sites, creating new accounts on apps or sites, sharing health information with apps or sites, online shopping, paying bills, and so on. Few people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats. The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The Health Affairs study of possible violations of patient privacy in hospitals includes the following: Analyzed 6,162 US hospital and health system websites, including 3,747 identified non-federal acute care hospitals with websites. percent of these hospitals routinely sent sensitive health information to third parties.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The Health Affairs study of possible violations of patient privacy in hospitals includes the following: Analyzed 6,162 US hospital and health system websites, including 3,747 identified non-federal acute care hospitals with websites. percent of these hospitals routinely sent sensitive health information to third parties.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Yes, wearable devices used in healthcare can involve telehealth if protected health information (PHI) is transmitted from the device to the clinician or, for example, to a clinician’s electronic health record (EHR). To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 29, 2023

Definition of Patient Gateways or Portals Patient gateways or portals are digital platforms that provide patients and clients with secure access to their personal health information and facilitate communication with healthcare providers. Federal privacy laws protect them, such as HIPAA in the United States and PIPEDA in Canada.

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GlobalMed

MAY 21, 2019

Understandably, the panel audience asked about HIPAA requirements. Cybercriminals know disaster recovery often means an abundance of incoming personal data and will target insecure software to steal information. Telemedicine is changing the game on disaster resiliency and public health outcomes. Use a secure system.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 10, 2023

They must communicate health information in a clear and understandable manner, taking into consideration the patient’s health literacy and cultural background. Use Clear and Simple Language: Healthcare professionals should use plain language and avoid medical jargon when communicating health information to patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

Some of the latest technologies or security approaches that every healthcare organization should have in place to address cybersecurity threats are automatic data retention periods for protected health information for SaaS-based tools like file storage and communication. Perhaps that’s too obvious.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 7, 2023

In this article, we will explore the 5 best practices for home health monitors to boost patient safety and reduce costs. With the ability to have more health information at their fingertips thanks to this technology, patients can be educated on how to properly manage their conditions and make healthy lifestyle choices.

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Especially for more serious, time-critical medical events, the extra minutes offered by continuous monitoring can be the difference between life and death. Some smaller hospitals have used RPM integration as a means to help upgrade in-house data security efforts, as well as to better integrate with EMR and meet HIPAA requirements.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Current Events As of this article’s writing, multiple courts are involved in the fight for reproductive rights; the pharmaceutical industry is in an uproar around states; and previously successful telehealth abortion services are holding their breath to see what will happen next. That policy was made permanent in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

It was developed in direct response to the pandemic, and its purpose was to support the rapid development, deployment and testing of a mobile solution for tele-critical care services to respond to emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, medical trauma, natural disasters – or disaster events including war. HIPAA Compliant.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

With all the legislative and regulatory development in process (TEFCA, 21 st Century Cures / information blocking, CMS initiative on data access as a condition of participation, national health cybersecurity strategy, etc.)

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

With all the legislative and regulatory development in process (TEFCA, 21 st Century Cures / information blocking, CMS initiative on data access as a condition of participation, national health cybersecurity strategy, etc.)

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

With all the legislative and regulatory development in process (TEFCA, 21 st Century Cures / information blocking, CMS initiative on data access as a condition of participation, national health cybersecurity strategy, etc.)

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

With all the legislative and regulatory development in process (TEFCA, 21 st Century Cures / information blocking, CMS initiative on data access as a condition of participation, national health cybersecurity strategy, etc.)

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

With all the legislative and regulatory development in process (TEFCA, 21 st Century Cures / information blocking, CMS initiative on data access as a condition of participation, national health cybersecurity strategy, etc.)

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

With all the legislative and regulatory development in process (TEFCA, 21 st Century Cures / information blocking, CMS initiative on data access as a condition of participation, national health cybersecurity strategy, etc.)

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 20, 2023

Current Events As of this article’s writing, multiple courts are involved in the fight for reproductive rights; the pharmaceutical industry is in an uproar around states; and previously successful telehealth abortion services are holding their breath to see what will happen next. That policy was made permanent in 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted. This critical information can help identify or avoid serious adverse events, including hospital readmissions.

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