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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect.

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Bonus Features – October 27, 2024 – Almost 90% of info blocking complaints to ONC/ASTP are against providers, 74% of patients with health plan questions want to speak to a human, plus 20 other stories

Healthcare IT Today

Almost 90% of information blocking complaints have been against providers , according to the latest ASTP/ONC blog post. Many complaints stem from “pre-conditions” on access to information that aren’t required under the HIPAA Privacy Rule or any other laws.

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Upgrading Patient Care with EHR Software Systems in Cardiff

NiftyHMS

Cardiffs healthcare landscape is being transformed by the integration of modern EHR Software Systems, offering improved patient care. Secure and Easy to Use : Remote consultations are secure, HIPAA-compliant, and simple to set up for both doctors and patients.

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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will be generally available October 30

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Teams electronic health record connector, which will allow clinicians and patients to launch a telehealth visit or virtual consult directly from their EHR system. Epic will be the first EHR system to integrate with Teams in this way. Moore in a blog post in May about the launch.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

. “Open APIs will make it easy for consumers — acting through authorized third parties — to gain direct access to their EHRs and their personal clinical data. Think of APIs as tunnels into the clinical data warehouses that have been created by EHRs. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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HIPAA Compliant Vendor?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Does Working with a HIPAA Compliant Vendor Make You HIPAA Compliant? ” Unfortunately, you may be working with a HIPAA compliant vendor, such as a texting service, email provider, video platform or even EHR platforms, but that’s … Read more. The post HIPAA Compliant Vendor? In a word, “no.”

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Why You Shouldn’t Aim for EHR Interoperability With Telemedicine Software

AMD Telemedicine

For many, the most obvious solution has been to rely on a third-party vendor to provide telehealth services and then work to make that service interoperable with existing electronic health records (EHR). Our solution can be set up to directly push and pull data from your EHR and export encounter reports for your records.