Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. Online mental provider Cerebral, Inc. The FTC’s proposed order would impose a $7.8

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. By Susannah Fox, September 19, 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

Warren and Welch asked Amazon executives earlier this month about patient health data privacy and expressed concerns that the platform’s new healthcare service is putting users’ private health data at risk. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations. On February 27, 2019, the U.S.

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MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances.

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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. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. By Susannah Fox, September 19, 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

And that will enhance patient/consumer health experience and loyalty. AI underpins all retail experience now – which is something we’re hearing in healthcare whether at HIMSS, CES, SXSW, ePharma, and other conferences since the start of 2019. How can I banish bags from my eyes? What causes eye pain?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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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. Comments are due February 12, 2019.) Well, that moment has arrived (maybe). The regs were finalized in 2003.)

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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. Comments are due February 12, 2019.) Well, that moment has arrived (maybe). The regs were finalized in 2003.)

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019. health care. Out-of-network costs?

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MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

Another player in this area is Pillo Health, which uses a robotic companion and facial recognition technology to dispense medications to people at home. Integration Experts say integration is key to advancing home health tools. Privacy and data security remain big issues where personal health data is involved.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 Misrepresented its HIPAA Compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. CB Insights released its Digital Health 150 list , with companies focused on remote monitoring and diagnostics taking 29 of the spots. In addition, Quantum Health formed an Oncology Clinical Advisory Board.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 7, 2024

Understanding RPM and its Benefits RPM utilizes digital technologies to collect medical and health data from patients from wherever they are – their homes, on vacation, etc. – Starting from 134,000 in 2019, the patient count rose dramatically, reaching an estimated 5.7 million by 2024.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Telehealth.org readers will also recall the January 4 research report titled, Some Telehealth Platforms Are Tracking Sensitive Patient Data: Are They Violating HIPAA ? It showed how 49 or 50 telehealth platforms investigated by researchers shared sensitive healthcare data with marketing companies. Users in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In 2019, Fitbit unveiled a more data-driven personal health subscription service for consumers that, among other features, generates personal reports that a user can download and share with their physician, nutritionist or personal trainer.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 28, 2024

2019) published in JAMIA Open. The study highlights the challenges in managing patient-generated health data in remote patient monitoring systems, emphasizing the need for standardized data protocols and interoperability to enhance the accuracy and reliability of the data collected through RPM technologies.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 26, 2023

Wearable devices: These devices can be used to track patients' health data, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels. AI and machine learning: These technologies can be used to analyze large amounts of data to identify patterns and trends that can help improve patient care.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This comprehensive insight allows providers to better link patients to treatments and resources that promote patient safety and overall health. Your role in this process is essential for the success of remote monitoring programs because patients need someone they can trust with their health data.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This comprehensive insight allows providers to better link patients to treatments and resources that promote patient safety and overall health. Your role in this process is essential for the success of remote monitoring programs because patients need someone they can trust with their health data.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 5, 2024

Additionally, RPM fosters greater patient engagement in their own care by providing them with access to their health data and empowering them to actively participate in managing their condition alongside their healthcare team. million deaths in 2019.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). The majority of medical record providers are not compliant with the HIPAA Right of Access,” Deven McGraw is quoted on the Ciitizen website. What did Ciitizen learn from this process?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

While Peloton was a punchline in some peoples’ jokes at the 2019 holiday season ( see here ), the company had an enviable growing waiting list in 2020 — the right thing at the right time. Justice Department.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). But then there’s the formidable challenge of medical privacy and the regulation of Big Tech companies’ use of personal data, covered in general terms on page 167 shown here.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Among portal users, one in four is very concerned about unauthorized access to the portal’s personal health information. adults 18 and older via phone in July 2019. See the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll data from April 2019 in this last chart for that insight.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

. “It is the duty of the NHS to consolidate patient records into the highest quality longitudinal patient level data set, and then to use these data-driven technologies, in a safe, ethical, evidenced and transparent way,” the report concludes. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the U.S., The reality of U.S.

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