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Meta Faces Legal Firestorm As Hospitals Cite Its Pixel Tool In Health Data Breaches

Healthcare IT Today

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. Both of the recent incidents, which were announced in mid-October, involved a Meta tracking tool known as Meta Pixel.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

Many of the tools and technology already exist for any state to build or enhance an existing HIE quickly, while still leveraging local expertise for individual communities. . Some ready-made CSS tools that states will find useful include: . Agile Technology Tools. Resources for All States. An Established and Reliable Platform.

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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG): emerging HealthTech sub sector is 'one to watch in 2024 and 2025

Lloyd Price

Overall, rPPG is a developing health tech with promise for contactless vital sign monitoring. As research progresses, it has the potential to become a valuable tool in healthcare. Data security: Sensitive health data needs robust security measures. So, is it hype? Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk Visit [link]

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Connected Health Initiative Letter to Congressional Leadership Regarding Digital Health Tools to Fight COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

Senate 322 Hart Senate Office Building Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McCarthy, Leader McConnell, and Leader Schumer: We applaud your leadership in developing a bipartisan supplemental appropriations package responding to the coronavirus, or COVID-19.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. Brian Anderson was appointed the CEO this month following many years of leadership in responsible AI work.

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Reimagining Health Tech on the Cusp of ONC’s Final HTI-1 Rule – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

EHR Development Standards: New teeth, bigger bite After years of dashed hopes that EHR workflows will achieve true interoperability and allow patients to easily access and share their healthcare data, many are looking at the ONC’s final standards with a skeptical eye and cautious optimism.

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Maximizing Healthcare Data Starts with a Human-Centric Approach

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data.