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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable.

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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. As the industry standard, Direct Secure Messaging continues to expand nationally.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. That’s a wonky phrase that translates, simply put, into how our health data will be made available to us patients, consumers, health plan members, caregivers all.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Discussing TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability With Civitas Health. CEO Lisa Bari sat down with John to discuss why state efforts to address interoperability are as important as national efforts. They also touched on the role of health data utilities as the evolution of the state HIE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. We need to consolidate data stores, continuously update and maintain data protection mechanisms, provide diverse resiliency strategies and vigilantly analyze access behaviors. Healthcare is different.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2023

An Alabama health system recently fired an employee who accessed 2,500 patient records without authorization. Mike Semel said this is a telltale example of why health systems need to enforce HIPAA’s minimum necessary access rule , along with logging access and updating incident response plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Read more… How Will Data Utilities Evolve ? Experts agreed that health data utilities are in their early stages but will start to see additional value when they engage with government agencies in their communities and enable data sharing across state lines.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Colin talked to Eduard de Vries at Axia Women’s Health about leveraging their EHR to reduce administrative burdens on patients and present up-to-date information to physicians. Read more… The Health IT Issues That Not Enough People Are Talking About. Read more… Health Data Exchange Moves to the Cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Preserving data security and privacy is the foundational principle on which our business was built. We enable data and analytic solutions that drive new insights to improve our society and, in this case, healthcare. With that legacy in mind, we developed a HIPAA-compliant way to link de-identified datasets, unlocking a new era of RWD.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In the ledgers supporting Smart Contracts, or in any decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), rules guiding the transactions or data transfers across peers are automatically enforced. HIPAA is upheld and auditing is easy. Every supplier of medical data keeps data at the source and shares only anonymized, compliant data on demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

Improved Regulatory Compliance The healthcare industry is subject to heavy regulation under the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) due to the sensitive nature of healthcare data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Google met HIPAA requirements when it pulled together millions of patient records when working with the Ascension health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Bruno described some of the challenges that healthcare organizations face when it comes to creating seamless experiences for their patients and members: Digital Data is Difficult to Use Data is Incomplete HIPAA Restrictions on Data Collection Digital Identify Verification is Hard Collecting all of the right data in a compliant way and then applying (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference , in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Technology Selection: Choose RPM devices and platforms that align with your clinical goals, considering factors like ease of use, accuracy, and interoperability with existing health record systems. Data Management: Implement robust data management policies that ensure patient data is securely collected, transmitted, and stored.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Outfits like ATA, HIMSS and others are lobbying for full inclusion of patient-monitoring and home-health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Optimize Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience. Simply collecting patient data and giving it to providers isn’t enough any more. Read more… Make Last-Mile Interoperability a Reality. Read more… Achieve HIPAA-Compliant Communication for Behavioral Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and In Home Care – I know not everyone enjoys predictions, but the fact that last year’s prediction did so well means that people like them more than I realized which is good since we just started our 2023 Health IT Predictions. Top Whitepapers and eBooks.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Healthcare software vendors prioritize projects that use HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) over those built on other standards for many reasons. In addition to the benefits of FHIR, interoperability mandates are moving the market incrementally, but towards FHIR domination. Let’s dive in.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

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. Source : [link]

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The following is a guest article by Sam Dorshorst, Account Executive at Documo. COVID-19 exposed many dangerous flaws in our healthcare system, not least of which is the inability of providers to easily share life-saving information wherever and whenever it’s needed.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) have both received considerable praise for their role in increasing patient engagement. However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features. These are called tethered PHRs or connected PHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Deven McGraw , Co-Founder of Ciitizen® and Lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae Corporation HIEs and HINs Should take Key Actions Now to Prepare for the Enforcement of the Information Blocking Rules On Sept.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As such, as a regulator for a day, I’d implement critical clarification and updates of HIPAA, its scope and classification when it comes to medical guidance from AI-powered tools, outline the responsibility and liability of AI, and explore the selling of data for profit without transparency and consent.

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