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Why You Need to Switch to HIPAA Compliant Telehealth, NOW

Mend

Data breaches or mishandling can also put a practice at serious risk of legal and financial trouble. That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Keeping PHI secure is the main goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

Innovate long-term care. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Achieving health equity, bringing mental health services to all who need them, ideally at parity with physical health services. Help our children achieve their potential. Advance academic medicine.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

Health Populi

As we all grapple with what this means at this preliminary stage and then what could evolve over time, I focus on the dual aspect of the opportunity: is this about primary care or is this about data? ” I added the bold emphasis here on the issue of personal health data. To be sure, it’s both.

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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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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

Consumers’ trust in all sources of health information increased between 2018 and 2020 except for peoples’ trust in online health websites/apps and social media, both of which lost a number of consumers trusting them. consumers would be willing to share their health data were Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple.

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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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Digital Side Door Part 2: Attract and Retain Patients with These Tips

Xealth

In a previous blog post, I explained the side door concept as the tendency of patients to seek lower-value services outside their primary care network. Integrate with Wearables and Health Apps Over one-third of adults use digital health apps and wearables in 2023. That door, as we all know, serves as an entry and an exit.

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