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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

The PHI includes the PII and other data like medical record indicators, health plan identifiers, certificate or license numbers, vehicle identification and license plate, and biometric identifiers (such as the face, fingerprints, voice, and eye retina). So, HIPAA may not apply.

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Weekly Roundup – October 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Tips include improving legacy systems before moving them to the cloud, ensuring what gets moved to the cloud is optimized for scalability and flexibility, and weighing the appetite to maintain on-premises and cloud infrastructure in the interim. Read more… Security, Privacy Hurdles Plague AI-Driven Health Services.

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Telehealth integrated into EHR is the way to go for CarDon & Associates

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"They also offer a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform that integrates with our EHR," she continued. There are many vendors of telemedicine technologies and services on the health IT market today. " Brandy Armstrong, RN, CarDon & Associates. MARKETPLACE. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Securing Patient Data: A Practical Guide to Compliance in Open-Source Healthcare CMS

Healthcare IT Today

Below are 4 tips to enhance patient data security when utilizing open-source in a modern healthcare CMS platform. Stay informed about the latest security threats and compliance requirements relevant to healthcare data, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the United States.

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Fueling Innovation in Healthcare by Scaling Access to Protected Data

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare has a Data Problem: Here’s How We’ve Been Trying to Tackle It It’s no secret that having continuous access to raw health data is invaluable—that fact is well established. We need this data to drive the next wave of innovation—people’s health and well-being depend on it.

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). HIPAA covered entities and business associates are required to assess whether encryption is a reasonable and appropriate safeguard as a means of protecting ePHI at rest (i.e.,

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). HIPAA covered entities and business associates are required to assess whether encryption is a reasonable and appropriate safeguard as a means of protecting ePHI at rest (i.e.,

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