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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

A survey from The Harris Poll and ClearDATA found that 81% of Americans incorrectly assume that all protected health information collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA. Sales National wound care center Healogics implemented Net Health’s Tissue Analytics solution.

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Weekly Roundup – September 16, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Optimize Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience. Simply collecting patient data and giving it to providers isn’t enough any more. David Claxton at Xealth explained how offering third-party apps to patients in a standard way helps health systems track which digital health assets are gaining the most traction.

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How Automated Lineage Improves Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

The staff will diagnose and treat you, but care is time sensitive and costly. Plus, delayed treatment compounds the risk of a more long-term health impact. Now consider routine checkups with your primary care physician, who knows your history and has access to your medical records.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

I’m also especially keen, from the patient privacy perspective, to hear my close colleagues Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis explain the “Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? But will HIPAA protect American patients in this world of AI, Big Data velocity and volume, and persistent social check-ins?

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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.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

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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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]