Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It’s safe to assume that securing protected healthcare information (PHI) would be a top priority for healthcare IT and security professionals, even if HIPAA didn’t require it. In the healthcare industry, HIPAA provides an additional layer of risk management complexity. That offshore support can still be HIPAA compliant.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? The following is what they had to share with us. advertising platforms).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Loyal, I’m told by Sharma, created one of first HIPAA-compliant chatbots. Loyal respects HIPAA with two major design choices. But when strict privacy requirements control what can appear in the output, machine learning methods have to change. Loyal also tracks patient responses and suggests new topics to the clinician.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Many people in the healthcare IT and HIM communities have been anticipating some changes to HIPAA coming soon. As Rita Bowen from MRO recently shared, “the rule is 20+ years old and the practice of medicine has changed, the maintenance of the health information, etc. so yes, it is time for a face lift.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a consumer fraud settlement against a company that displayed a ‘HIPAA Compliant’ seal on its website.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 29, 2024

Over the past decade, I’ve worked with only one physician who doggedly held onto his pager, refusing to adopt the hospital’s HIPAA-compliant messaging app. Screentime addiction is real and it is everywhere.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2021

Intraprise Health, a leading provider of cybersecurity services and solutions and the Protect™ risk management software platform, today announced that it has acquired HIPAA One, provider of industry leading HIPAA compliance automation software.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the topic “HIPAA.” ” HIPAA has to be one of the least understood rules in the world. We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/28 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). We see this first […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2020

Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the news that enforcement of HIPAA penalties around telehealth, patient communication, and remote communication technologies will be suspended during the Covid-19 National Emergency and will go into effect immediately.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

For the 68th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Topics We Want to Stop and Start Talking About. However, my […] For the 68th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Topics We Want to Stop and Start Talking About. Price transparency. Patient access to data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? To authentically contribute to societal health, it’s crucial to accept failure as an integral part of the process.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Cerebral’s investigation concluded that the data might be considered protected health information and that it had failed to make sure that these third parties met HIPAA requirements for protecting PHI.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2020

We wrote previously about HIPAA enforcement being suspended for telehealth during COVID-19 and more details on how to implement it. The good news is that HHS released a HIPAA and Telehealth FAQ that addresses some of those […]. Plus, we shared the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Last week, the FTC came out with a statement clarifying the intent of their Health Breach Notification Rule when it came to health apps and connected devices.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2020

OCR (Office for Civil Rights) inside of HHS which is in charge of HIPAA enforcement has issued another notice of enforcement discretion. Roger Severino, OCR Director, announced that OCR will exercise it’s enforcement discretion and not impose penalties for violations of certain HIPAA provisions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with Epic application analysis! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Any communication received from a Vytalize Health recruiter during your screening, interviewing, or selection process will come from an email ending in @vytalizehealth.com Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with data architecture.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with Epic application analysis and coordination! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This position will perform the above in accordance with the Patient Safety and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Acts, The Joint Commission (TJC) and other regulatory agencies. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2019

Healthcare and health IT groups are supporting recently proposed legislation aimed at reforming a patient privacy regulation by aligning it with HIPAA.

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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 Today

MARCH 29, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience as a PACS Administrator or software analyst in healthcare. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. What We Offer Sign-on bonus of $1,500 in first paycheck and $1,500 at 12 months of employment Salary $71,000-$91,000 DOE with ability to go higher for highly experienced candidates (salary will be prorated if less than 1.0

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

This position will perform the above in accordance with the Patient Safety and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Acts, The Joint Commission (TJC) and other regulatory agencies. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Amazon EKS) Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK Stack) Knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g.,

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 2, 2018

Plus, HIPAA criminal prosecutions are on the rise and Cerner settles another lawsuit tied to overtime pay. Beyond an online pharmacy, Amazon's acquisition of PillPack offers up a trove of new data, which comes with new compliance concerns.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The article Health IT Startup: Datica appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. The HITRUST CSF Certified Datica platform services all who handle PHI in the cloud, from startups to the Fortune 100. Elevator Pitch Datica removes the risks for […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

Demonstrated knowledge of HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR and SOC. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Licensure/Certification: CISSP-ISSAP. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with healthcare security.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with Epic application analysis and coordination! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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? HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is an integral part of U.S. healthcare legislation.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Many countries require web sites to meet accessibility guidelines; in the United States, both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and HIPAA include such requirements. But services designed without disabled people in mind can be discriminatory. Lawsuits to enforce these regulations have hit many companies.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 13, 2019

The McKinsey “2,750 times” statistic is a pretty good proxy for the amount of your personal health data that is NOT protected by HIPAA and currently is broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

As exciting as advancements have been, however, Joy Pritts, fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation and former chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, raised concerns about virtual care technology outpacing privacy protection policies. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the most well-known – though broadly misunderstood – data protection regulations, and it includes stiff penalties for noncompliance. HIPAA plays a role in that protection, but there is a persistent misconception that compliance and security are synonymous.

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