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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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

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.

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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. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales at Brother International Healthcare technology development and modern security needs are continually evolving, calling for a shift toward digitization and interoperability to facilitate easier access to information, and more efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

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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.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Discussing TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability With Civitas Health. CEO Lisa Bari sat down with John to discuss why state efforts to address interoperability are as important as national efforts. They also touched on the role of health data utilities as the evolution of the state HIE.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Lygeia Ricciardi, President, Clear Voice Consulting.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. I see five trends in health IT infrastructure that people should be watching: cloud computing, digitalization, information exchange, AI, and wearables. Charlie Clarke, Senior Vice President of Technology at hc1.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Among the top obstacles are lack of access to data-sharing systems coupled with lack of interoperability between health IT investments, preference for paper and phone, and data privacy and security concerns. The second chart details the key barriers preventing clinicians from sharing data with patients.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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. This offers more control over their privacy and minimizes data oversharing. Subscribe Today!

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

Enter the enterprise health cloud (EHC). Health clouds yield many benefits to hospitals looking to address the digital service chasms between providers and patients/consumers. EHCs can: Simplify interoperability, enabling data to move into applications. pioneer , that #LoveIsTheKillerApp.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

About Ali Modaressi Ali Modaressi is the CEO of the Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES), a qualified health information organization (QHIO) exclusive to Los Angeles County that supports more than 10 million lives. He currently serves on the California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework Stakeholder Advisory Group.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2023

An Alabama health system recently fired an employee who accessed 2,500 patient records without authorization. Mike Semel said this is a telltale example of why health systems need to enforce HIPAA’s minimum necessary access rule , along with logging access and updating incident response plans.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. That’s a wonky phrase that translates, simply put, into how our health data will be made available to us patients, consumers, health plan members, caregivers all.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

As healthcare systems and providers modernize (or build) their technology stacks, it will be more important than ever to prioritize privacy and to understand new regulations at the state level, from HIPAA, and from the FTC. Lastly, organizations should continue focusing on the Price Transparency Rule.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Colin talked to Eduard de Vries at Axia Women’s Health about leveraging their EHR to reduce administrative burdens on patients and present up-to-date information to physicians. Read more… The Health IT Issues That Not Enough People Are Talking About. Read more… Health Data Exchange Moves to the Cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2023

Colin stepped in for John Lynn on the latest episode to interview Rob McDonald at Virtru about the importance of a data-centric approach to zero trust and also how to use automation and encryption to improve HIPAA compliance without placing an additional burden on front-line workers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Interoperability and artificial intelligence will play a large role in the innovation of healthcare technology in 2024 and will be necessary to control the rising needs in healthcare data management and analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

In order to have a digital identity that is interoperable across organizational boundaries, you need to have trust. Rather it’s the same problem related to healthcare interoperability applied to a growing set of actors. As that occurs, medical devices will need to have access to more information across more organizations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Seeing AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Google Cloud in large booth spaces on the exhibitor floor space was a visual confirmation that health care IT is now more about data than technology. The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

Improved Regulatory Compliance The healthcare industry is subject to heavy regulation under the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) due to the sensitive nature of healthcare data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Bill said long-term and post acute care need the same types of government incentives to implement EHRs that acute care got – and they need to be included in conversations about interoperability regulations. Read more… How Health Research Can Benefit From Synthetic Data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

How Artificial Intelligence and Other Tech can Help Even when it comes to electronic health records (EHRs), an area where many countries are making strides , the issue of interoperability remains. This precludes the effective, timely, and secure transmission of patient data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Inspired by ethical tradition, HIPAA guidelines mandate that patient information be stored and communicated securely. The following is a guest blog post by The Fax Guys. Confidentiality Is A Cornerstone of the Healthcare Industry. That critical requirement has far-reaching technology implications.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

With that legacy in mind, we developed a HIPAA-compliant way to link de-identified datasets, unlocking a new era of RWD. The Health Care business of LexisNexis Risk Solutions has very powerful and unique data assets, and we know there are other data assets on the market, including genomics, lab, wearables, rural and community health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

While there’s a lot for organizations to consider, issues such as security, interoperability, scalability, and complexity all impact the choice of the preferred cloud deployment model. Read more… Profile of a New Health Data Exchange Company. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on cloud deployment models.

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