Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Getting your hands on the data necessary to make breakthroughs in healthcare is a significant challenge given its sensitive nature. Essentially, we need a way to have our cake (access raw health data to drive life-saving advances in medical care) and eat it too (maintain said data’s privacy). Grab your fork.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Principles Concerning Privacy According to Zebley, the privacy team believes that the federal government must update HIPAA, which covers organizations narrowly associated with traditional medical treatment, and regulated the many organizations and digital apps that collect personal health data. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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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 9, 2021

Here’s a look at the areas of health IT we want to start and stop talking about (you’ll have to listen to which topic we want more of and which we want less): * HIPAA and vaccines/HIPAA and healthcare questions. Patient access to data. Price transparency. Ransomware. Healthcare APIs. Patient Identifier.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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. HIPAA Will Be Used As An Excuse to Keep The Status Quo. Users Will Never Do What Is Expected of Them. *

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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 a result, health data is creeping into cloud-based tools where it becomes exposed to very new and very real security threats – some of which healthcare organizations have never had to deal with before. In January 2021, HHS’s Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) rule was signed into law.

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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

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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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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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

APRIL 14, 2020

Apple and Google have announced that they’ll work together to help governments and health agencies trace contacts made by people who have contracted the COVID-19 virus. The effort, which will only involve users who have opted in, will rely on Bluetooth technology.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. CB Insights released its Digital Health 150 list , with companies focused on remote monitoring and diagnostics taking 29 of the spots.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This week, the news broke that a data breach at the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital had exposed private health information on nearly 10,000 people. According to a story appearing in the Boston Globe, an authorized third party got to data stored in software used by MGH researchers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

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). Given the health tech market’s rapid growth, there is certainly more to come.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

HIPAA vs HIPPA – Fun Friday – I’m glad some humor made the top list since I enjoy humor as much or more than the next person. Clean, Usable Health Data and the Impact of Sharing Data with Partners. It is fascinating to see how we thought about Facebook and healthcare in 2014. Top Healthcare IT Today Videos.

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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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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 5, 2019

Amazon announces the availability of six new HIPAA-compliant Alexa healthcare skills. GAO officials tell the House Veterans Affairs Committee that the VA’s poor track record of CIO leadership has harmed its IT modernization projects and will continue to do so. In Case You Missed It. News 4/5/19. EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 4/4/19. News 4/3/19.

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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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