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HIPAA Compliance Checklist: How to Protect Patient Data

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare organizations, including doctors, to maintain the privacy and security of patient data. A practical HIPAA compliance checklist is essential to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. What Is HIPAA Compliance?

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Some Telehealth Platforms Are Tracking Sensitive Patient Data: Are They Violating HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Responsible clinicians are likely to ask whether sharing protected health information (PHI) by telehealth companies equates to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Key aspects of HIPAA that might be relevant include: HIPAA requires covered entities (e.g., Clash of the Titans?

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How to Use Breakout Rooms for Successful Behavioral Health Sessions

Vidyo

Vidyo’s comprehensive Telehealth Platform offers healthcare facilities a powerful tool that enhances patient and provider interactions, improves access to care, increases engagement, and reduces costs. With Vidyo, you can facilitate virtual group visits for several use cases in a healthcare setting.

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What Does ChatGPT Know About Selecting a Telehealth Vendor?

AMD Telemedicine

Another 18% of those surveyed found that there are compatibility issues with existing systems and workflows, not to mention ongoing data security and HIPAA compliance issues. The vendor’s grasp of knowledge should extend beyond technology to fully encompass the healthcare industry. Digital transformation can take time.

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Scaling Virtual Consultations

CiscoHealth

Follow along with our new blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll addresses healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . In fact, 71% of providers in this survey said that patient engagement was their top priority. Telehealth isn’t new for Cisco.

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What is needed for telehealth's next big steps forward

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare is the only industry I can think of that simultaneously regulates that data must be both protected and shared with fines for not complying with both. State and federal rules on delivering healthcare services over video were complicated and contradictory holding back investment in virtual care.

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Data Privacy and Security in Healthcare: Navigating the Challenges and Ensuring Patient Trust

Digital Health Global

With the advent of electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine, and various digital health tools, healthcare groups face an increasingly complex challenge in safeguarding the privacy of individuals’ records. Confidentiality of personal and medical information is a crucial component in building and retaining this trust.