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Featured Health IT Job: Chief Health Information Officer

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We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Chief Health Information Officer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Hennepin Healthcare and is located in Minneapolis, MN.

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Featured Health IT Job: Health Information Technology Advisor

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Health Information Technology Advisor position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Familiarity with health information systems. Experience in database design and management.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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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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The Path to Patient Empowerment: Hospitals are granting patients access to their health information, but is that enough?

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The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. A typical radiology report contains a lot of medical jargon and data that can be misinterpreted easily by those without medical training.

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How Healthcare Communication Platforms Can Harness Generative AI in a HIPAA-Compliant Way

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. Up to now, HIPAA-compliant data security and generative AI haven’t gone hand-in-hand as AI is trained on large datasets centrally and often by third parties.

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Synthetic Data and LLMs Power the World’s Most Powerful Research Assistant

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In all these cases, well-trained AI can work much faster and more cheaply than a human consultant. MDClone can take a data set on real patients and generate a synthetic data set of fake people that contains no personal health information (PHI) but still reveals that limited set of dimensions. Tell us what you think.

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Surprising Number of Healthcare Employees Have No Cybersecurity Training

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This week, the news broke that a data breach at the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital had exposed private health information on nearly 10,000 people. According to a story appearing in the Boston Globe, an authorized third party got to data stored in software used by MGH researchers.