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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

With that, here are my tips for patients: Think twice before inputting PII or PHI into unknown mobile apps without knowing the practices they follow. First, we have three personas: a patient, a vendor (a 3 rd party solution provider), and a healthcare professional (HCP) or organization (HCO). So, HIPAA may not apply.

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Weekly Roundup – October 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Considerations for Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud.

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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. Healthcare IT News has published a special report detailing many of the vendors and their offerings. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Brandy Armstrong, RN, CarDon & Associates. MARKETPLACE.

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

Healthcare IT Today

Safeguarding patient data is non-negotiable in today’s digital age where privacy breaches can have far-reaching consequences on individuals and healthcare organizations alike. Below are 4 tips to enhance patient data security when utilizing open-source in a modern healthcare CMS platform.

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The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News interviewed Mulcare to dig into the reversion to pre-pandemic regulations, the ethics of telemedicine across state lines, what telehealth technologies can do to increase access, and more. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Outcomes will be reflected in those solutions with high-quality products.

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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. Everyone has heard of HIPAA , which was enacted to protect patients’ health information from disclosure without their consent or knowledge.

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Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Now we have electronic boards that are HIPAA friendly to help identify patient location and assignment as well as a number of other alerts to help with patient throughput. What are some tips for healthcare leaders who want to better serve patients with EHRs and patient portals? Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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