FierceHealthIT

APRIL 12, 2018

The New Jersey attorney general has fined a medical group $418,000 for HIPAA violations tied to vendor oversight; the American Medical Association has teamed up with Google on an interoperability challenge; and more physician practice news from around the web.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2020

OCR (Office for Civil Rights) inside of HHS which is in charge of HIPAA enforcement has issued another notice of enforcement discretion. Roger Severino, OCR Director, announced that OCR will exercise it’s enforcement discretion and not impose penalties for violations of certain HIPAA provisions.

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E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

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. By Susannah Fox, September 19, 2019.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 4, 2019

The article Interoperability Barriers: Achieving It In Today’s Healthcare Data Landscape appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. It was generally recognized by 2009 that the health care industry was long overdue when it came to adopting electronic systems for storing patient data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 19, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is extending the public comment period by 30 days for two proposed regulations aimed at promoting the interoperability of health information technology (health IT) and enabling patients to electronically access their health information.

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Redox

JANUARY 24, 2024

My debut focused on how the CMS proposed Interoperability and Prior Authorization rule would dramatically improve prior authorization processes with electronic processing via APIs. CMS just finalized the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule CMS-0057-F , or what many have called the “Interop 3” rule. ICYMI: It didn’t.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. As health care grows more omnichannel and distributed, cybersecurity will become more challenging at the point-of-care and a big risk for health care providers under current HIPAA regulations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

One such regulation is the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which outlines steps to achieve interoperable, electronic tracing of prescription drugs in the United States. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is another significant regulation that can impact RFID in healthcare applications.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales at Brother International Healthcare technology development and modern security needs are continually evolving, calling for a shift toward digitization and interoperability to facilitate easier access to information, and more efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The current state of health data interoperability. The relationship between security and HIPAA-compliance. Interoperability consortium an 'even higher priority' post-pandemic. What to do when patients lack necessary connectivity infrastructure? A lot of things have to line up for remote monitoring to work well.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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Health Recovery Solutions

JUNE 15, 2021

When COVID-19 hit, providers across the country turned to telehealth as a way to replace office visits and monitor patients at home. Healthcare delivery could not stop—providers had to get creative in how they delivered care to patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability. One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. Epic has been also encouraging organizations to share COVID-19 data , like travel-screening documentation and infection-status information, through the company’s interoperability network, Care Everywhere.

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eVisit

AUGUST 3, 2021

It’s where healthcare professionals from CIOs and senior IT leaders to providers, payers, suppliers, vendors, consultants and other experts gather to share the latest-and-greatest best practices, from AI and machine learning to digital transformational leadership, proactive healthcare, pandemic response, interoperability, data analytics and more!

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 6, 2016

HHS has produced an 8 page fact-sheet on Ransomeware and HIPAA that is fantastic. Just 8 pages, packed with very readable, reasonable, reasoned, and backed by long standing Security and Privacy HIPAA Regulation. It is so good that I have very little to say as any emphasis I would add is already in the 8 pages.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Lane, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability, Sutter Health. Lygeia Ricciardi, President, Clear Voice Consulting.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Understanding what is considered PHI has been extremely important to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. Certainly many outside of healthcare have confused how HIPAA applies and applied it to a lot of non-PHI, but those in healthcare have gotten to know what is considered […].

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Lane, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability, Sutter Health. Lygeia Ricciardi, President, Clear Voice Consulting.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mateusz Krempa, COO at Piwik Pro Broader reflection and discussion on HIPAA-compliant technologies would help the industry see beyond popular solutions and identify tools that balance successful data processing with regulatory requirements. We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., advertising platforms).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Familiarity with interoperability standards is also essential, as is the need to stay abreast of evolving compliance requirements. HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex., Interoperability: Healthcare systems no longer operate stand-alone. Epic), regulations and compliance requirements (ex.,

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

The following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. The origin of the modern fax machine dates back to the 1960’s. From that analog origin to enterprise-scale cloud fax, we have seen the evolution of fax from simple point to point document exchange to something extremely powerful and capable. Some pundits see fax […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, are quickly being adopted on a massive scale. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jason Warrelmann, vice president global services and process industries, UiPath.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. Creating standards synergy for 'Interoperability 3.0' Part 2 – with HIPAA. " Leary said.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 2, 2023

Adopting these technologies has been slow for some healthcare providers, and data privacy and interoperability remain challenging for some. Interoperability is another challenge. In addition, healthcare companies are bound to HIPAA and various other industry-specific regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. This move should be coupled with novel approaches to protect the data they collect and store, utilizing more advanced HIPAA-compliant IT applications with official privacy and security credentials. Healthcare is different.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Discussing TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability With Civitas Health. CEO Lisa Bari sat down with John to discuss why state efforts to address interoperability are as important as national efforts. Read more… Protecting Your Organization From a Hidden HIPAA Threat. Cynthia Casatelli at e4.health

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Redox

AUGUST 1, 2023

Providers, payers, pharma, and even health technology organizations are challenged to make their healthcare data transformative because it is deeply sensitive, highly regulated, and lives in silos that are not interoperable.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the next phase in the evolution of interoperability, SDC allows for the secure and near real-time sharing of health data between devices at the point of care, regardless of the manufacturer. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 5, 2021

Cybercrime has been on the rise in healthcare and introducing video tools that aren’t secure or even HIPAA compliant has opened a door to attacks. Today’s patients are savvy consumers as well, and looking for providers who can assure them of a HIPAA-compliant virtual experience that protects their sensitive data. Evidence-based care.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Improved compliance with regulations: SSI facilitates easier compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR and HIPAA by enabling patients to manage their data consent and access logs efficiently. This offers more control over their privacy and minimizes data oversharing. This transparency builds trust and fosters informed consent.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 31, 2024

These challenges range from technical hurdles, such as ensuring device compatibility and data accuracy, to systemic issues like interoperability and healthcare provider adoption. Interoperability Issues Adopt universal data standards and protocols to facilitate seamless data exchange between RPM systems and healthcare infrastructures.

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