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Philips will buy remote patient monitoring company BioTelemetry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The acquisition of BioTelemetry fits perfectly with our strategy to be a leading provider of patient care management solutions for the hospital and the home," said Frans van Houten, CEO of Philips, in a statement.

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

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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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

Healthcare IT Today

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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Digital Transformation Relies on Data Center Storage

Healthcare IT Today

While the healthcare industry has typically lagged behind others in implementing digital strategies, it is catching up in order to streamline workflows, optimize patient outcomes, improve operations, and lower costs. Established interoperability standards will facilitate health information and data sharing across outsourced platforms.

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Key Cybersecurity Defenses for the Healthcare Sector

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, only 24% of healthcare organizations have multi-factor authentication (MFA) policies in place, which is an essential component of a modern security strategy. Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI).

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Self-sovereign identity (SSI) - the future of Health Data?

Lloyd Price

Improved compliance with regulations: SSI facilitates easier compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR and HIPAA by enabling patients to manage their data consent and access logs efficiently. Visit [link] HealthTech Corporate Development - Buy Side, Sell Side, Growth & Strategy services for Founders, Owners and Investors.

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Fueling Innovation in Healthcare by Scaling Access to Protected Data

Healthcare IT Today

Essentially, we need a way to have our cake (access raw health data to drive life-saving advances in medical care) and eat it too (maintain said data’s privacy). Historically, organizations have tried to get around this by using synthetic, abstracted, or pre-anonymized datasets, but that strategy just doesn’t cut it.