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HIPAA Gets First Major Update in Over a Decade

Digital Health Wire

It might have taken the biggest data breach in healthcare history to make it happen, but HHS finally announced the first major changes to HIPAA in over a decade. By eliminating that line, HIPAA would make all of the above changes mandatory for all organizations, whether theyre ready to implement them or not.

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Senators intro bipartisan effort toward modernizing health privacy laws

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. WHY IT MATTERS. And the U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

Health Populi

We can see the Amazon column (second in alpha order following Alibaba) with more checkmarks (in dots) indicating the most health care activities by type compared with any other “tech giant” in the world. ” I added the bold emphasis here on the issue of personal health data. Probably not. Probably never.

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Amazon Launches New Service Simplifying Healthcare Data Search and Analysis

Healthcare IT Today

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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#SPM2018 Hot Topic: Can a Market for Health Data also Protect Patients’ Rights to Their Data?

Society for Participatory Medicine

With more efficient access to data sources, medical researchers can spend more time on analysis that enhances our medical knowledgebase and less time compiling data. As an SPM board member, I have the privilege of introducing Bill, who will speak about the value of aggregated health data from the researcher’s perspective.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data

E-CareManagement

“…the average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors” — McKinsey analysis. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog.

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