Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. WHY IT MATTERS. And the U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Wearables and other remote patient monitoring tools have expanded patient care beyond the walls of brick-and-mortar clinics. Pritts noted that HIPAA is quite broad – but it doesn't apply to the entirety of health IoT. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

Jane Doe, a patient at UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company in relation to its health data privacy practices. More About Facebook’s Meta Lawsuit & Data Privacy in Healthcare. HIPAA Compliant Cybersecurity: Practical Implementation Tips.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

The American College of Physicians, the American Telemedicine Association and the Organization for the Review of Care and Health Applications announced a new framework this week aimed at helping healthcare professionals and patients make informed decisions about digital health tools. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Advance academic medicine.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’ physician and hospital reviews, tracking activity, donning wearable tech, and engaging in live telehealth consultations with providers, as the first chart shows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The current state of health data interoperability. Making health data not just readable, but useful. The relationship between security and HIPAA-compliance. Cerner expands tools available for rural hospital clinical trials. What to do when patients lack necessary connectivity infrastructure?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Differential privacy protects data by answering queries with strategically garbled results. Differential privacy-based solutions require a high degree of expertise to make these systems compliant with regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, and data quality can vary dramatically based on how the system is tuned.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When it comes to healthcare and patient monitoring, there are more tools available, and they have gotten a lot easier to use. In this article, we will provide some tips for choosing the right RPM tool for your clinic or hospital. The type of data you need to monitor. What is Remote Patient Monitoring Software? How Does it Work?

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. On Monday 9th March 2020, at the start of this week, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

Without insight into the inner workings of their own flow of information, most healthcare organizations can’t leverage their data to drive better patient care or more informed business decisions. Data lineage tools address this challenge, highlighting data dependencies and revealing data’s journey through complex systems and transformations.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 1, 2024

RPM utilizes a variety of digital tools to collect health data remotely. These tools can include: Wireless weight scales: Tracks weight fluctuations, which can signal fluid buildup, a common concern in CHF. Implement robust cybersecurity measures with encryption and secure data storage protocols.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 Misrepresented its HIPAA Compliance.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 7, 2024

Understanding RPM and its Benefits RPM utilizes digital technologies to collect medical and health data from patients from wherever they are – their homes, on vacation, etc. – With Medicare’s evolving policies, understanding how these changes impact coverage is crucial for patients and providers alike.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Read more… How Will Data Utilities Evolve ? Experts agreed that health data utilities are in their early stages but will start to see additional value when they engage with government agencies in their communities and enable data sharing across state lines.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2024

In a blog post , ONC highlighted the plan’s goals to promote health and wellness, enhance the delivery and experience of care, and accelerate research and innovation, all by connecting the health system with health data. QuickBlox released a HIPAA-compliant chatbot approved for use with OpenAI.

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Xealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Integrate with Wearables and Health Apps Over one-third of adults use digital health apps and wearables in 2023. Integrate with popular fitness and health-monitoring devices to provide a holistic view of patient health data. 4 Ways to Avoid Patient Loss Through the Digital Side Door 1.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 29, 2019

Slack noted the importance of holding onto its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance — which, if breached, could land the company in hot water with steep fines and criminal penalties. It's likely that HIPAA compliance will extend to communication features within months. million in penalties.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So how, despite these challenges, can we still piece together all the medical data we need without resorting to centralized solutions? Decentralization is a powerful tool that can allow us to access fragmented data efficiently and securely. A blockchain is a decentralized system that generates and stores data records.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Clinicians expose themselves to HIPAA violations if they digitally receive PHI data in any form, including having a simple picture of that data sent to them electronically. To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR. What is Telehealth? Register.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

That’s one barrier overcome to get smartphone health apps into the hands of people dealing with the many tasks involved with managing chronic disease. It’s not the only barrier, and not a panacea; but it’s an important one in terms of a potential on-ramp to self-health tools.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Number of Americans affected by healthcare data breaches: 46 million CHI urges Congress to enact a federal privacy law of general applicability, setting a strong set of rules to prevent and penalize privacy and data security harms concerning health data outside the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) umbrella.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Discussing TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability With Civitas Health. They also touched on the role of health data utilities as the evolution of the state HIE. Read more… Protecting Your Organization From a Hidden HIPAA Threat. Read more… CIO Podcast : Digital Transformation.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 31, 2024

This seamless fusion allows for continuous monitoring of patients’ health data, bridging the gap between traditional in-clinic visits and modern, digital healthcare management. Key to this integration is the compatibility of RPM technologies with existing healthcare systems, enabling real-time data flow and analysis.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

” When the concept of therapies tailored to individual patients is explained, most people like the idea of diagnostic tools that can identify biological markers and marry to personal medical records data to help determine medical treatments that best fit them. This picture of U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Those consumers who have adopted some form of digital health tool, whether wearable tech, telehealth visit, or mobile app, seem satisfied with their experiences, which is another key aspect of the so-called “digital transition.” These findings are based on Rock Health’s survey of some 4,000 U.S.

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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

RPM is the use of electronic equipment or digital technologies to gather and monitor patient-generated health data, and transfer the data to their healthcare provider for diagnosis, assessment and recommendations. The data collected by RPM devices is usually automatically submitted to HCPs.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key.

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