Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The modern healthcare IT team must possess an array of emerging skills that allow practices to share data while ensuring that no one but the intended targets gain access to it. Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We often talk to people are just entering the health IT space. with this in mind, we decided to talk about the healthcare assumptions people should be sure to encounter in their health IT journey. Here's a look at the healthcare assumptions we discuss: * Data Breach Will Happen. Users Will Never Do What Is Expected of Them. *

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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

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

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

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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record retention requirements, and the guidelines from several states and the federal government are ambiguous at best. Healthcare organizations considering a purge of their archived data soon realize that errors […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

In his 25+ years working in cybersecurity, the majority of his career was spent in the healthcare industry, where he held roles such as HIPAA security officer, information security manager, health information technology director, and security auditor for several large health systems.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

As web vulnerabilities become a key part of ransomware attack chains, even those that originate from phishing emails, it is critical for health IT administrators to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities to proactively minimize the risk of downtime and data breaches.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2021

Jeremiah Fowler with the WebsitePlanet research term recently shared that they discovered over 1 billion records from a non-password protected CVS Health Database. The database was over 204 GB of data with 1,148,327,940 records.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Protecting Health Data As the healthcare industry’s reliance on AI increases, organizations must establish clear guidelines and guardrails to govern its use and strategic use. AI and Ethics: Cognitive and Algorithmic Biases AI relies on the validity of the datasets from which it pulls information.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). The Scorecard was developed to gauge the progress (and lack thereof) of patient information access afforded by peoples’ health care providers. What did Ciitizen learn from this process?

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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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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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