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Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Healthcare IT Today

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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Emerging trends in the European HealthTech M&A market 2023

Lloyd Price

This is being driven by the increasing adoption of digital health technologies by patients and healthcare providers, as well as the growing need for healthcare organizations to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Life sciences: This includes companies that develop and commercialize drugs, biologics, and medical devices.

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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

Health Populi

Pharmaceuticals garner the lowest score at 57, compared with biotech and life sciences at 64. ” In addition, there is a growing risk of cybersecurity hacks of patients’ personal health information, with stories reaching local news media on a regular basis.

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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

The WHO and the India G20 presidency emphasised its importance by launching ‘The Global Initiative of Digital Health’ (GIDH) in August, proclaiming: “Digital health is a proven accelerator to advance health outcomes and achieve Universal Health Coverage and health-related Sustainable Development Goals.”

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10 Key Medtech Themes for 2023

Henry Kotula

At the same time, medtech innovators – whether in digital health, wearables and AI-driven offerings in healthcare, or diagnostics, telemedicine and health IT solutions – continue to face a patchwork of laws, rules and norms across the world. Growing importance of data privacy and security.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time.

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Bonus Features – March 12, 2023 – 87% of docs used telemedicine in 2021, 65% of healthcare orgs collect more trivial data once they adopt the cloud, and more

Healthcare IT Today

News Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. Partnerships Health information network Health Gorilla has partnered with CLEAR to launch an identity verification platform that lets patients access their PHI. from December to January).