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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. advertising platforms). FHIR, HL7).

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines. What do you think?

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. These activities should be multi-disciplinary, including representatives from the Compliance Department, Information Technology, HIPAA, and Legal.

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Weekender 5/3/19

HIStalk Weekender

HHS announces that it will use its discretion to reduce maximum annual HIPAA fines based on level of culpability. The only area that has avoided this trend is smaller (and relatively newer towns) in the SW and West which never had much, if any, of a manufacturing base to begin with. Best Reader Comments.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The final Zio report gives physicians a comprehensive look into their patient’s heart rhythm data including: daily and total atrial fibrillation burden, daily and total ectopy burden, symptom/rhythm correlation, most relevant heart rhythm strips, heart rate trends, preliminary interpretation and key findings, and PVC burden and morphologies.

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Google Care Studio and Google Bard: Google's best chance to impact healthcare?

Lloyd Price

Care Studio is designed to be easy to use and can be customized to meet the specific needs of each clinic or hospital. It is also HIPAA compliant, so clinicians can be confident that their patients' data is secure. These tools can be used to identify trends, patterns, and risk factors.

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