Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2020

We wrote previously about HIPAA enforcement being suspended for telehealth during COVID-19 and more details on how to implement it. The good news is that HHS released a HIPAA and Telehealth FAQ that addresses some of those […]. Plus, we shared the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2020

Usually, HIPAA violations are part of the background noise of the healthcare business, and few are so large that they prove catastrophic for the entity involved. In the following case, however, a health system has incurred a fine that can’t be taken lightly.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Kudos to NABIP for developing this document and taking a leadership position in supporting health care as a civil right for all consumers, emerging as health citizens, in America. The post A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Thanks to Microsoft for its leadership in enabling better healthcare, everywhere. .” Molly and I covered a lot of ground here , starting with the key forces shaping and accelerating virtual care across the continuum.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2020

In this Teleahealth Feature Series, we’re going to cover the long list of potential telehealth features available today. As you’re considering your own approach to telehealth, we hope to provide you a look at all the possible features telehealth companies are offering on the market.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

million to the HHS Office for Civil Rights to settle claims that it violated the HIPAA Breach Notification and Privacy rules. In yet another sign that the agency is taking a tougher enforcement stance, Sentara Hospitals has agreed to pay $2.2 Sentara Hospitals, a 12-hospital acute care chain, is part of Norfolk, Va.-based

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

OCR has done a lot around HIPAA including the enforcement discretion around HIPAA penalties associated with telehealth. I’ve been impressed with everything that the various organizations within HHS have done to try and help healthcare organizations deal with the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the most well-known – though broadly misunderstood – data protection regulations, and it includes stiff penalties for noncompliance. HIPAA plays a role in that protection, but there is a persistent misconception that compliance and security are synonymous.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

HIPAA includes a requirement for MINIMUM NECESSARY ACCESS. Everyone knows that HIPAA requires patient information to be kept private and not shared with friends, family members, or anyone else without the patient’s authorization. HIPAA requires that computer activity logs be reviewed to identify unauthorized or inappropriate access.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Tom Liddell, CEO at Harmony Healthcare IT A successful career in health IT leadership requires a unique blend of technical expertise, regulatory knowledge, and strong communication skills. Being academically strong greatly contributes to a healthcare leadership mindset. HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex.,

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Intersection of HIPPA and AI Solutions When it comes to healthcare, specifically the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, we need to consider two critical concepts before we look at AI solutions developed by a vendor in the HIPAA realm. So, HIPAA may not apply.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

This position requires independent decision-making, problem solving, project management, leadership, training, systems and build analysis, and excellent written and verbal communication skills. This role works closely with organizational stakeholders to architect and provide solutions that offer efficient patient care and provider workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2020

COVID-19 has caused a rethinking in how companies view office space and corporate real estate. In the case of healthcare, one of the lines of thought has been as to whether or not team members not directly involved in patient care or support need to be located at facilities where it takes place. Another thought […].

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 8, 2023

The company’s offering is deployed within a secure platform that supports HIPAA compliance. Flagstad spent nearly 16 years in executive leadership roles at UnitedHealth Group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2023

"Zoom is continuing to invest in AI throughout our platform and taking a leadership stance in AI technology by being transparent that communications-like customer content will not be used to train Zoom’s AI models or its third-party artificial intelligence models," Mahesh Ram, head of AI applications at Zoom, said in the statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2020

"BioTelemetry’s leadership in the large and fast growing ambulatory cardiac diagnostics and monitoring market complements our leading position in the hospital. BioTelemetry says it monitors 1.2 million patients a year, with 40,000 sensors shipped each month.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes. “Fortunately, HIPAA-compliant Zoom proved to be very simple to operate from both ends,” Robeck remarked.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Compliance and certification service provider Schellman released HIPAA Express , a risk assessment tool aimed at HIPAA compliance and OCR audit workflows. Mardjuki returns to the company he co-founded before leaving for leadership roles at Box and American Express.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

IKS Health’s market leadership in the ambulatory market will be coupled with AQuity’s market leadership in the acute care market to create an entity that enables Clinicians and their Enterprises to deliver better, safer, more efficient care across the continuum of care delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2020

The following is a guest article by Diana Warner, MS, RHIA, CHPS, CPHI, FAHIMA, Director, Client Relations and Account Management at MRO. Health information management has seen many new processes quickly evolve during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Shippy also reassures viewers that they can get HIPAA-compliant cloud repositories and that “we walk them through” how to create a secure network. She also believes that everybody, urban and rural, can use the cloud, and that AWS tries to “make sure they have the resources” to do so.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ensuring that HIPAA compliance is met by the cloud provider is top of mind. Have the healthcare systems prepared their leadership about the real potential of having to cover costs of on-premise systems and cloud systems at the same time due to delays in the original cloud migration schedule?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx. IT, clinical and operational leadership collaborated to create workflows to facilitate the transition to telemedicine and establish virtual connections. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2020

Further reinforcing the original intent of HIPAA, this empowers patients to download their data and use […]. The reason being is because patients are now entitled to use Application Programming Interfaces to download their health data into their application of choice.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2023

The incumbent will research, access, develop, evaluate and modify documents, as well as implement and train on complex software applications.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here’s a look at the areas of health IT we want to start and stop talking about (you’ll have to listen to which topic we want more of and which we want less): * HIPAA and vaccines/HIPAA and healthcare questions. We hope you’ll share how you feel about these topics and which ones you’d add to the list and where. Price transparency.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2023

Before his role at Clearwater, Dave served as the Director of Technology and Security at Mary Washington Healthcare, where he was responsible for technology leadership and served as the HIPAA Security Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Principles Concerning Privacy According to Zebley, the privacy team believes that the federal government must update HIPAA, which covers organizations narrowly associated with traditional medical treatment, and regulated the many organizations and digital apps that collect personal health data. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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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). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards. Currently, ChatGPT does not meet HIPAA standards. Today, there is a technical solution for every such need.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2020

UPIC's services are HIPAA-compliant, Tucker said. UPIC will use a HIPAA-compliant electronic health record, and she said leadership does "spot checks" to ensure confidentiality among coaches providing care. Although most of the services are via video, telephone also is an option if needed.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

For the former, Amazon leadership is talking up the company’s expertise in consumer experience and delight, efficiency and engagement (which I addressed in yesterday’s Day 1 post ). To be sure, it’s both.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2023

McDonald then shares with us how to leverage emerging technologies to achieve HIPAA compliance to take the compliance burden off the shoulders of healthcare workers. Next, we talk about Zero Trust policies and how being data-centric is crucial to making it work. We also discuss where this policy is currently falling short in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cyber security has become paramount for practitioners since HIPAA regulations came into law, especially in light of email […]. In the heyday of on-premises email systems, SEGs were the leading security methods to protect a company’s data and users from email attacks.

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Health System CIO

MAY 14, 2020

Recently, healthsystemCIO spoke with Christian about how the leadership team at Franciscan, a 12-hospital system based in Indiana, is prioritizing to ensure patient care is front and center, while also keeping the trains running. Leadership during a crisis – “You have to literally over-communicate.”.

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