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Is HIPAA-Compliant Texting Necessary?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

As this technology grows, so should the knowledge base of clinicians who share protected health information with or about clients and patients via texting with patients. While there are many advantages to using text with and about patients, text messaging in healthcare poses risks that HIPAA addresses. Text Messaging and HIPAA.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

At the same time, digital health companies should collaborate with the insurance industry to build a knowledge base about risks and safety to bring some standardization and accountability to the market. Those risks do not naturally fit, Beazley says, into traditional insurance silos.

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How to work with innovation in digital mental health

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Of cou rse, to make this work, healthcare administrators have to find a software package that is HIPAA compliant. Online Knowledge Base. This can be done by way of online knowledge bases that are freely available to the general public. Jacob Noah is the EAP administrator at Studicus.

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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. Organizations must be careful not to lose the knowledge base they have grown via internal systems or become solely reliant on outside systems that may change the ways or costs to do business.

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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.” These are called tethered PHRs or connected PHRs.