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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation.

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Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

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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CyncHealth Optimizes Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience

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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. Watch the video for stories about the benefits of CyncHealth and their work with SES to improve patient care.

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

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.

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Understanding the Term EHI Will Be As Important As the Term PHI

Healthcare IT Today

Everyone in healthcare likely knows the term PHI (Protected Health Information). Understanding what is considered PHI has been extremely important to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

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Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies. Although some may have been slow to adopt telemedicine, healthcare professionals across multiple disciplines quickly realized the benefits of telemedicine.

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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

Additionally, healthcare organizations using RFID need to consider several regulations. One such regulation is the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which outlines steps to achieve interoperable, electronic tracing of prescription drugs in the United States.

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