Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we head into 2020, I reached out to a number of people in Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to hear their thoughts on these hot topics: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), Privacy and Security of Health Information, Medical Coding Standards, and Patient Matching.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

" "It's free to enroll in ACP, but many people are reluctant," Craig Settles wrote for Healthcare IT News in November on how the efficacy of telehealth depends on meeting the need  for broadband. Part 2 – with HIPAA. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hospital records contain sensitive data, including diagnostic details and sensitive personal health information. This information must be protected to avoid any legal implications and ensure compliance with privacy regulatory laws, like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). What is HIPAA?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge. Care Health Plan.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Infrastructure Engineer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Today, we’re featuring the Sr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The legislation, which is supported by several industry representatives including athenahealth, Epic, IBM and Teladoc Health, would establish a commission tasked with providing recommendations to Congress about updates to health information privacy laws. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. So, HIPAA may not apply. What do I mean?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2022

The following is a guest article by Richard Barretto, Chief Information Security Officer Progress. Healthcare companies have a lot on their IT plate, but often neglect their most vital assets: files, documents, and records. Files and Documents are a cybercriminal gold mine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Verisma still has significant runway for further growth and we are thrilled to provide funding for this merger that will help the company continue to expand and improve the overall experience for healthcare providers and third-party requestors.” Guggenheim Securities, LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor to ScanSTAT on this transaction.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability. One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging. He shares why they chose SES and some of the business impacts resulting from the change. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"We are returning towards pre-COVID-19 financials, and the organizations struggling before the pandemic are in the same predicament now," Chou wrote for Healthcare IT News in February. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. Finally, Sara gives us a glimpse of what’s next for them on their roadmap. Tell us what you think.

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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 30, 2022

Capital raise comes amid rapidly growing demand for the company’s HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions. Paubox , a leading provider of HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $10 million in funding from Arthur Ventures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The authors outlined several design considerations for health IT, including: Assistive-technology compatibility and Intuitive user interfaces. Writers also flagged the HIPAA flexibilities around telehealth. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ever since data went online, health care organizations and others have been struggling to provide useful data for advanced analytics while guarding Protected Health Information (PHI). Data masking, data aggregation, synthetic data, and differential privacy are among the solutions, but each presents difficulties and limitations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 9, 2020

Relapse rates for people recovering from substance abuse are between 40% and 60% , but health IT vendors DrFirst and GoHipo are collaborating on a new approach to post-discharge care designed to help people beat the odds. ” HIPAA-compliant secure messaging. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. Whether you need HIPAA, OSHA, SOC 2, or all three, your compliance program is fully customizable. 21CO) faced a $2.3

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

An incident response plan is essential to provide impacted parties with a clear understanding of the protected health information (PHI) and/or electronically protected health information (ePHI) that was compromised, when the incident occurred, and what action is being taken by the organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to the FTC, GoodRx has been funneling personal health information from these consumers to advertising companies and platforms such as Facebook, Google and Criteo, along with other third parties such as Branch and Twilio. More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since 2017.

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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

MARCH 19, 2024

These formats include Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which provides a common language for laboratory tests and clinical measures.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI). If a file is deemed malicious, this solution takes action to prevent the code from executing, thus protecting the network and digital assets.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Building Trust in the Cloud One of the main, and most obvious, reasons is the highly sensitive nature of data at play in healthcare facilities: protected health information (PHI), insurance claims, pharmaceutical intellectual property, and more. So what’s causing this hesitancy?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) today announced the acquisition of ScalaMed, a HIPAA-compliant, smart platform that transfers prescriptions directly to patients via a secure mobile app. The acquisition transfers ScalaMed’s technology and assets to Outcomes™, a Cardinal Health company.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

We can only achieve this if the data is kept private to maintain patient privacy and the intellectual property rights of healthcare companies and their industry partners. Everyone has heard of HIPAA , which was enacted to protect patients’ health information from disclosure without their consent or knowledge.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2022

Within the ecosystem, Healthie has the most comprehensive, feature-rich, and flexible option for delivering and scaling a digital, virtual-first health experience. The platform sits at the center of provider and customer interaction, housing the business, operational, financial, and health information for customers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. “The devices include apps that can bridge healthcare services, for example, laboratory and prescription fulfillment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

To hear more about the current healthcare cyberattacks , we reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Today Community. Matthew Sciberras, CISO and VP of Information Security at Invicti Before the pandemic, the most exploitable security vulnerabilities were built into on-premises systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2020

Health information management has seen many new processes quickly evolve during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 forced the healthcare industry to change how healthcare is delivered, with telehealth taking a front row seat.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

Established interoperability standards will facilitate health information and data sharing across outsourced platforms. Utilizing New Storage Possibilities From the start, data collection systems need to be scalable and operational with different IT systems and providers.

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