Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 4, 2023

Responsible clinicians are likely to ask whether sharing protected health information (PHI) by telehealth companies equates to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Key aspects of HIPAA that might be relevant include: HIPAA requires covered entities (e.g., Clash of the Titans?

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When considering healthcare cybersecurity best practices, HIPAA security risk assessments and HIPAA remediation plans are essential. Examples of endpoint protection include password protection, encryption, and antivirus software. HIPAA requires organizations to keep exact copies of files at an offsite data backup facility.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The article Benefits, Challenges, and Examples of Cloud Technology Application in Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Back in 2015, we created a post on cloud usage in healthcare, where we researched this topic and predicted that we will see the growth of this industry. And now in 2019, we see that we were right.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 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? However, there are important distinctions between the two.

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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? However, there are important distinctions between the two.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 28, 2018

Texas Employee Fired for HIPAA Violations…Then THIS Happened This is one of those examples of a potential HIPAA violation that seems more fiction than reality. The post Texas HIPAA Violation appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The purpose of this article is to explore the common examples of acute diseases, the difference between acute and chronic illnesses, and the role of remote patient monitoring in managing acute diseases. Acute Disease Examples Acute diseases can come on suddenly and range from minor to severe conditions.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Pritts noted that HIPAA is quite broad – but it doesn't apply to the entirety of health IoT. A diabetes monitor prescribed by a doctor is covered by HIPAA, she explained, but an online therapist who is not associated with your health plan or provider, and who only takes credit cards, is not.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

HIPAA includes a requirement for MINIMUM NECESSARY ACCESS. Everyone knows that HIPAA requires patient information to be kept private and not shared with friends, family members, or anyone else without the patient’s authorization. HIPAA requires that computer activity logs be reviewed to identify unauthorized or inappropriate access.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For example, an AI model analyzing medical images (such as MRI or CT scans) can directly transmit its results to another AI system specialized in treatment plans, ensuring a rapid and seamless transition from diagnosis to treatment. The AIs achieve this by communicating with supplier systems, ensuring optimal inventory levels and timing.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 6, 2016

HHS has produced an 8 page fact-sheet on Ransomeware and HIPAA that is fantastic. Just 8 pages, packed with very readable, reasonable, reasoned, and backed by long standing Security and Privacy HIPAA Regulation. It is so good that I have very little to say as any emphasis I would add is already in the 8 pages.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2020

Alleva, who focuses on the federal regulation of healthcare providers, payer enrollment and HIPAA compliance, told Healthcare IT News that it's still too soon to tell how patients will react to loosening coronavirus restrictions. " This is an issue in states such as Pennsylvania, for example.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

.” OCR’s Allegation of Cerebral Telehealth The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the US Health and Human Services department in charge of investigating and sanctioning HIPAA violations, has posted the results of their current investigation of Cerebral. HIPAA investigations don’t occur in a vacuum.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

Sadly, these are just a few of copious examples where healthcare professionals are more concerned with their view counts than their responsibility to protect and care for their patients. In early 2023, nurses at a Tennessee hospital were also fired for a TikTok mocking a pediatric patient with a gunshot wound who cried during a blood draw.

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SightCall

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

For healthcare, rules are defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA regulates how patients’ information must be handled by healthcare professionals (covered entities) and their partners (business associates). Developers Hate HIPAA. Understanding HIPAA Compliance for Video Consultations.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A non-healthcare example would be a smartphone app designed to listen to music using earbuds to engage with iTunes or Apple Music on one’s smartphone. Assume, for example, that a blood pressure cuff gives a false negative reading. To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

" Telehealth need not entirely replace in-person visits, he said, but practices could, for example, offer after-hours consultations or asynchronous services for patients who need virtual care. " However, he cautioned, the relaxation of HIPAA enforcement around telehealth tools "is intended to be time-limited."

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Xealth

APRIL 3, 2023

Under HIPAA, they are known as covered entities. Business Associate Agreements – where the rubber meets the road If PHI is exchanged as part of the service relationship, the health system and vendor must have an agreement in place that meets the HIPAA regulatory standards. FDA’s medical device software regulations (i.e.,

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

Those advertising companies include Google, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, and many more, which are immune to HIPAA violations because they are not covered entities. HIPAA, in some cases, may not legally obligate privately held companies to keep collected information private. 4 What Are Data Brokers and How Can They Hurt Your Clients?

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TheraNest

APRIL 29, 2024

For one, most of these apps aren’t HIPAA-compliant – some of them aren’t even secure. For example, TheraNest lets you start sessions from your agenda screen, and you can send a secure link to clients. The days of Zoom bombings might be over, but now, even professional solutions might use your call data to train AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging. One example involves collaboration with pharmacies to oversee prescription monitoring, ultimately providing physicians with a more comprehensive insight into their patients’ medication regimens.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, if you have an in-person provider who you think might transition to telehealth on a full-time or part-time basis, they may decide they don’t like telepsychiatry after all. Is our program HIPAA compliant? And that’s not the only challenge you might encounter. Do we have the right security in place (i.e.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Artisight’s HIPAA-compliant capabilities include computer vision, voice recognition, vital sign monitoring, indoor positioning capabilities, and actionable analytics reports. “With nearly 200 more hospitals undergoing implementation, it was clear we needed to grow to support our emerging client base.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Still, Flannery was careful to point out that the consulting physicians are not practicing medicine or directly diagnosing patients – an example of the ways existing licensure rules, currently on hold during the pandemic, could affect telehealth provision in the future. He also pointed to the easing of HIPAA restrictions by the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 7, 2023

For example, DPI can be used to identify and block traffic that contains malware, viruses, or other types of malicious code. For example, an organization may use DPI to monitor employee internet usage and ensure that employees are not accessing prohibited websites or engaging in other unauthorized activities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

He noted the moves by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reimburse providers for services and allow telehealth care between states , and the relaxed HIPAA regulations around technology use , as important contributors to the uptick in telehealth availability.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The example given by the FTC website states: For example, in August 2019, GoodRx compiled lists of its users who had purchased particular medications such as those used to treat heart disease and blood pressure, and uploaded their email addresses, phone numbers, and mobile advertising IDs to Facebook so it could identify their profiles.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 29, 2019

Slack noted the importance of holding onto its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance — which, if breached, could land the company in hot water with steep fines and criminal penalties. It's likely that HIPAA compliance will extend to communication features within months. million in penalties.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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. Currently, ChatGPT does not meet HIPAA standards. Today, there is a technical solution for every such need.

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TheraNest

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While ChatGPT is the primary example, it’s by no means the only one. You already did the hard work, so you can simply ask the AI to rewrite notes in a SOAP format, for example. They’re definitely not HIPAA-compliant and cannot be trusted with client information. For example, free AI models are not the latest and greatest.

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