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Telehealth, HIPAA compliance and innovation tracking

Aging in Place Technology Watch

This is the breakthrough push that the healthcare industry -- notably providers – needed to accelerate telehealth adoption. OCR lifts HIPAA restrictions – and innovation efforts accelerate. category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. The key phrase in this? So someone (you?)

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data.

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mHealth Guide to HIMSS19

mHealth Insight

Next week (11-15 February 2019) in Orlando (USA) 45,000 delegates will attend the world’s biggest Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition and we’ll be there for meetings and to learn about and share mHealth innovations with readers of the mHealth Insight blog. Cardinal Analytx (USA/Booth 888-33). AsReader, Inc.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. HIPAA, in some cases, may not legally obligate privately held companies to keep collected information private.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments. Thus, the industry must focus on the range of risks that can be mitigated from cyber-attacks to human error and system failures. How to deal? Those risks do not naturally fit, Beazley says, into traditional insurance silos.

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Implementing QA In Healthcare Industry Often Presents a Challenge

Electronic Health Reporter

The article Implementing QA In Healthcare Industry Often Presents a Challenge appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Over the few years, it has established itself as a formidable career choice which is unlikely to stop anytime soon. And […].

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