Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

While HIPAA revolutionized patient data protection in 1996, today’s interconnected digital landscape has rendered these safeguards obsolete. In fact, in a 2018 paper published in Nature , researchers demonstrated that 99.8% of patients from a de-identified data setcould be re-identifiedwithonly 15 demographic attributes.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

The specifics of the case and its repercussions for HIPAA business associates are discussed as part of overall HIPAA guidelines for healthcare professionals. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

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

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

consumers’ views on personalized medicine comes from a survey conducted for PMC, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and GenomeWeb , published in May 2018. Autonomy refers to data subjects’ (patients’) informed consent as a precondition of collecting personal health information agreeing to further uses.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

In an era where the HHS itself notes a 93% increase in large healthcare data breaches from 2018 to 2022, as well as a 278% increase in those that involve ransomware, suggesting “voluntary cybersecurity goals” is akin to applying a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. The frequency of cybersecurity breaches in health systems is a risk factor eroding patient trust.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

The specifics of the case and its repercussions for HIPAA business associates are discussed as part of overall HIPAA guidelines for healthcare professionals. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The specifics of the case and its repercussions for HIPAA business associates are discussed as part of overall HIPAA guidelines for healthcare professionals. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2018, AMCA suffered a breach affecting 21 million patients. In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. In another settlement announced in 2017, 21st Century Oncology, Inc.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

Those advertising companies include Google, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, and many more, which are immune to HIPAA violations because they are not covered entities. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. ” JMIR Mental Health 7, no. What Is Privacy?,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.” health care. Out-of-network costs?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI). Since 2018, ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations alone have cost the global economy $92 billion in downtime.

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SightCall

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

For healthcare, rules are defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA regulates how patients’ information must be handled by healthcare professionals (covered entities) and their partners (business associates). Developers Hate HIPAA. Although the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The website providing a guide to the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) asks the pertinent question: is using WhatsApp in a professional setting by healthcare workers compliant with the law? But could all that be getting out in the wild if professionals exchanged it via WhatsApp?

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Health Portal Solutions

MARCH 20, 2018

In fact, according to a survey by the Healthcare Executive Group , cybersecurity is one of health executives’ top challenges for 2018. Web portals play a critical part in protecting data and staying HIPAA-compliant; is yours keeping up with the demands? Does your portal use multiple methods for maintaining HIPAA compliance?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

As part of my advisory position on SHIFT Shift (formerly Protecting Privacy to Promote Interoperability PP2PI) was founded in 2018 and formalized in 2020 with a mission to advance safe, equitable, and patient-empowered sharing of health information. It should be by the time they finish their comments.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Chris Larkin, CTO at Concord Technologies In 2018, faxing patient records was deemed part of healthcare’s “ 1990s time warp ” by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (now the ASTP, or Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ).

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

” Unprecedented in telehealth history, the sharing of sensitive health information in early 2023 is poised to shatter provider naivete about working for large-scale business entities entering healthcare. Users in 2018, over 158,000 U.S. BetterHelp will reportedly be required to pay $7.8 Users in 2019, and over 641,000 U.S.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The analysis is based on assessments of nearly 3,000 risks in 2018 for more than 250 hospitals, health systems, physician practices and other healthcare entities. Health information management. To determine top risk areas, Crowe examined how often a risk was included in assessments by healthcare entities. IT governance.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to). Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to).

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to). Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to).

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to). Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to).

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to). Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to).

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to). Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to).

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to). Upcoming information blocking rulemaking and the final version of TEFCA are due out by the end of 2018 (so we will all have some reading material to get to).

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American Well

JULY 17, 2017

Beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information for Economics and Critical Health Act (HITECH), ATA’s guidelines encourage facilities to address privacy and security needs for each of its patients. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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American Well

MAY 9, 2018

Beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information for Economics and Critical Health Act (HITECH), ATA’s guidelines encourage facilities to address privacy and security needs for each of its patients. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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American Well

JULY 17, 2017

Beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information for Economics and Critical Health Act (HITECH), ATA’s guidelines encourage facilities to address privacy and security needs for each of its patients. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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American Well

MAY 9, 2018

Beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information for Economics and Critical Health Act (HITECH), ATA’s guidelines encourage facilities to address privacy and security needs for each of its patients. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But they want to make sure that an e-visit or other remote care is just as good as they’d get in person, and that their health information stays private.”. The HIPAA-compliant connection is established, and the live Virtual Visit begins. PT is not far behind. Effective Jan. Extending Engagement.

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