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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Another priority for members is seeing CMS getting more in lock-step with Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, and qualified health information networks. Part 2 – with HIPAA. The deadline to submit comments is January 31.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 19, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is extending the public comment period by 30 days for two proposed regulations aimed at promoting the interoperability of health information technology (health IT) and enabling patients to electronically access their health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 27, 2018

Greene, JD, MPH, a partner and co-chair of Davis Wright Tremaine’s health information practice, and former Senior Health Information Technology and Privacy Specialist at the HHS Office for Civil Rights, where he was responsible for applying the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules to health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

About Verisma With Verisma® services and technology, health information managers elevate their organization’s method of securely disclosing confidential information to patients, attorneys, and other third parties. ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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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. Founded in 2015, Paubox is on the Inc.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Importance of HIPAA Compliance One key area of healthcare compliance is HIPAA compliance. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets standards for protecting sensitive patient information and ensuring the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Only one-third of Americans would be willing to share their temperature, 29% their location, and one-fourth information about their chronic conditions. In the COVID-19 era, most U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

When it comes to sharing data, patients are most comfortable doing it for reasons related to treatment (71%) as compared to payment (39%), operations (28%), or public health (23%). Health information network Availity was awarded Compliance Leader Verification by the Ethisphere Institute.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

We who work in healthcare must pose the questions: going forward, how trusting will patients, consumers and caregivers be sharing their personal health information (PHI)? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2019

In the past couple of months, Amazon announced many health-related plans and developments, including: Accepting medical and health savings accounts (HSAs) to pay for consumer health products like over-the-counter drugs. Joseph Health. (The In many countries, personal healthcare data are subject to strict regulation.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.) Listen live at 8:30 AM, 4:30 PM or 12:30 AM ET, Monday through Friday for the next two weeks at HealthcareNOW Radio.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.) Listen live at 8:30 AM, 4:30 PM or 12:30 AM ET, Monday through Friday for the next two weeks at HealthcareNOW Radio.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.) Listen live at 8:30 AM, 4:30 PM or 12:30 AM ET, Monday through Friday for the next two weeks at HealthcareNOW Radio.

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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

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. Multiple modes of communication. ON THE RECORD.

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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.

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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

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.

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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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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 25, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PHASE Scientific Americas (PHASE Scientific), a fast-growing, global biomedical company developing innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare diagnostics, announces INDICAID health , its new line of at-home health tests and digital health experiences.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2022

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

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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.

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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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