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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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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Rock Health’s 2018 survey reinforces what we know-we know about consumers’ willingness to share health data — and that is that the physician, above all health care entities, is the patient’s most trusted data steward. Check out Estonia and Switzerland for case studies on that.

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Navigating the Interoperability Maze: 3 Key Challenges for Healthcare Providers and Payers

Healthcare IT Today

Anthony has over 20 years of experience in technology and security supporting the healthcare industry vertical, including release of information, clinical manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. MRO is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

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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Amazon's next big thing: Prime, but for healthcare?

Lloyd Price

"If Amazon can bring more competitive drug pricing through Prime Health, it will likely be well adopted by patients and providers alike, while pharma would need to change strategy to adapt and compete in a more transparent marketplace," says Edit Kovalcsik, healthcare analyst at GlobalData.

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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. Source : [link]

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How one provider is transitioning from WebEx and Skype to a full telehealth platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. ” The second solution underway is a combination of health data exchange technologies from Carequality, including CareConnect. First and foremost, it gives us a HIPAA-compliant, secure platform that we can use for virtual visits.