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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

At the same time, digital health companies should collaborate with the insurance industry to build a knowledge base about risks and safety to bring some standardization and accountability to the market. Those risks do not naturally fit, Beazley says, into traditional insurance silos.

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What Should You Think About When Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud?

Healthcare IT Today

Ensuring that HIPAA compliance is met by the cloud provider is top of mind. Organizations must be careful not to lose the knowledge base they have grown via internal systems or become solely reliant on outside systems that may change the ways or costs to do business.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) have both received considerable praise for their role in increasing patient engagement. However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features. These are called tethered PHRs or connected PHRs.