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What Should You Think About When Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud?

Healthcare IT Today

Ensuring that HIPAA compliance is met by the cloud provider is top of mind. Further, healthcare systems should investigate their interoperability and integrations. Have the healthcare systems investigated their interoperability model and how that will function within the public cloud?

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

When a PHR is connected to the patient’s legal medical record it is protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.” With all of these data storage options and ongoing industry struggles with interoperability,there are many opportunities for data to become siloed.