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HIPAA Gets First Major Update in Over a Decade

Digital Health Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

It might have taken the biggest data breach in healthcare history to make it happen, but HHS finally announced the first major changes to HIPAA in over a decade. By eliminating that line, HIPAA would make all of the above changes mandatory for all organizations, whether theyre ready to implement them or not.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. ATA, which represents the full range of providers that deliver telehealth, has intervened with some states as they grapple with health data privacy legislation, he said.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. adults polled. adults polled. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.” Seven in ten U.S.

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Senators intro bipartisan effort toward modernizing health privacy laws

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. And the U.S.

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach, Reports Leak of Data On 3.1 Million Users

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. million in civil penalties for failing to let consumers know about unauthorized disclosures of their data.

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Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Enhance Data Integrity and Streamline Processes

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Emerging technologies can even detect anomalies or mistakes which can help a patient get the care they need faster or give you more accurate data. Today, we are going to focus on emerging technologies in regard to health information management.

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Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, Part 3: The Futures of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2024

We can take advantage of that insight because there are already some clear guidelines on how to de-identify Personal Health Information (PHI). The frameworks that keep your information private in an analytical setting already exist. I think a responsible approach for training the Health AI models would follow a similar path.

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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Cybersecurity Challenges in Telemedicine and How to Keep Virtual Appointments Secure

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2025

Since telemedicine platforms handle and share sensitive health data, theyve become prime targets for cybercriminals eager to steal confidential patient information. From data breaches to hacking incidents, healthcare organizations face numerous cybersecurity challenges.

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

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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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate. Furthermore, this week Google made news about how it will absorb the DeepMind AI business into the larger Google Health unit. Now, his forecast is mainstream.

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Patient Privacy at Risk: The Hidden Flaws in Healthcare Data De-Identification (And How to Fix Them)

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Michael Blum, Founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI In an era where modifying a single DNA sequence can cure disabling diseases and a retinal scan can reveal important, unappreciated chronic diseases, the three-decade-old practice of data de-identification has become healthcare’s equivalent of using a paper lock in a digital world.

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Meta Faces Legal Firestorm As Hospitals Cite Its Pixel Tool In Health Data Breaches

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The Act defines “consumers” as people residing in Washington state as well as people whose health data is collected in Washington and those identified through quote, “unique identifiers.”

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Americans Most-Trust Health Care Providers With Their Data – But Are They Right To Do So?

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Political party ID again shows difference across Americans: More Republicans are very concerned about their retail data security than are Democrats or Independents. The study also looked into Americans’ views on data privacy for health information seeking. The poll was conducted among 1,009 U.S.

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HHS guidance clarifies HIPAA liability with use of 3rd-party health apps

FierceHealthIT

APRIL 26, 2019

clarifies that in most cases a healthcare providers' liability for stewardship of health data ends once patients download their health information to a third-party app. National Coordinator Donald Rucker, M.D.,

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. In the meantime, in the U.S.,

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MedEvolve’s Settlement: A Key Lesson in HIPAA Policy Involving HIPAA Business Associates

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

In a move highlighting the significance of upholding health data privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and MedEvolve, Inc. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. By Susannah Fox, September 19, 2019.

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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. So, HIPAA may not apply. What do I mean?

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

These concerns fall into the buckets of health insurance coverage, or lack thereof; insurance denials; affordability for the breakthrough therapies; and, potential risks of future denials for insurance based on the patient’s personalized genomic or other health data.

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Prominent Telehealth Startups Sharply Criticized by US Senators

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Following the release of a report by STAT and The Markup, which found 49 of 50 telehealth startups may fall short of legal requirements for HIPAA compliance, a bipartisan group of US senators has fiercely criticized several prominent telehealth startups for sharing patient data with Facebook, Google, and other major advertising platforms.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

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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How would you like to change HIPAA?

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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Innovative Remote Health Monitoring Solutions for Blood Oxygen & Physiologic Data

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Remote health monitoring solutions such as remote patient monitoring (RPM), has revolutionized how physicians manage and treat patients, particularly those with chronic conditions. Healthcare providers can now use advanced medical devices to track important health data. These conditions often need regular checks of health data.

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Providing Useful Anonymized Data for Health Research: Subsalt Finds a Blended Solution

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). Differential privacy protects data by answering queries with strategically garbled results.

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Facebook (Meta) Sued Over Data Privacy Practices in Healthcare With Meta Pixel

Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

Jane Doe, a patient at UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company in relation to its health data privacy practices. More About Facebook’s Meta Lawsuit & Data Privacy in Healthcare. HIPAA Compliant Cybersecurity: Practical Implementation Tips.

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. I explain th e current state of cybersecurity and health data insecurity in a new HIMSS blog linked here. You can read the full HIMSS blog here.

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Fueling Innovation in Healthcare by Scaling Access to Protected Data

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Getting your hands on the data necessary to make breakthroughs in healthcare is a significant challenge given its sensitive nature. Essentially, we need a way to have our cake (access raw health data to drive life-saving advances in medical care) and eat it too (maintain said data’s privacy). Grab your fork.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

I leave you with one proviso which could be a barrier to patients engaging with digitized health information: in the wake of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, there is a wake-up call for consumers to become more mindful about the security of their personal data online.

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P2PE vs. E2EE in Healthcare Data Security: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2025

In 2024 according to the Identity Theft Resource Centers 2024 Data Breach Report a whopping 237 million victim notices were sent out to Americans notifying them that had their health data exposed in a breach (190 million in the Change Healthcare Breach alone). Any failure in this process could result in severe penalties.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

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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HIPAA Gets First Major Update in Over a Decade

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Senators intro bipartisan effort toward modernizing health privacy laws

Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach, Reports Leak of Data On 3.1 Million Users

Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Enhance Data Integrity and Streamline Processes

Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, Part 3: The Futures of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Cybersecurity Challenges in Telemedicine and How to Keep Virtual Appointments Secure

The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Patient Privacy at Risk: The Hidden Flaws in Healthcare Data De-Identification (And How to Fix Them)

Meta Faces Legal Firestorm As Hospitals Cite Its Pixel Tool In Health Data Breaches

My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Americans Most-Trust Health Care Providers With Their Data – But Are They Right To Do So?

HHS guidance clarifies HIPAA liability with use of 3rd-party health apps

At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

MedEvolve’s Settlement: A Key Lesson in HIPAA Policy Involving HIPAA Business Associates

Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Prominent Telehealth Startups Sharply Criticized by US Senators

How would you like to change HIPAA?

How would you like to change HIPAA?

Innovative Remote Health Monitoring Solutions for Blood Oxygen & Physiologic Data

Providing Useful Anonymized Data for Health Research: Subsalt Finds a Blended Solution

Facebook (Meta) Sued Over Data Privacy Practices in Healthcare With Meta Pixel

Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Fueling Innovation in Healthcare by Scaling Access to Protected Data

Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

P2PE vs. E2EE in Healthcare Data Security: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

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