Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

I welcomed the opportunity to speak (via Zoom, of course) with Ron Emerson, Zoom’s Global Healthcare Lead, just a days before HIMSS 2021 kicked off. They had developed business associate agreements (BAAs) for HIPAA compliance over four years ago, thousands of which had been in place across the U.S.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health HIPAA 177

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs. If you are interested in learning how to build your telehealth team, take this free course module: Building Your Telehealth Team.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

I thought to myself, “hmm…when was the last time my health insurance plan, healthcare provider, or pharmacy benefit manager told me that I’d be ‘in control’ of my data?

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Connected Health HIPAA Digital Health 216

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs. If you are interested in learning how to build your telehealth team, take this free course module: Building Your Telehealth Team.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

For many, PGHD evokes the notion of datastreams from the vast array of health and wellness devices such as fitbits and jawbones, Bluetooth medical devices, and of course, tracking apps. The definition provides only a general description, leaving a lot of possibility for interpretation and application down the road.

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Meaningful Use EHR Health Data HIPAA 60

Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

And check out this video to hear more about the evolution of Withings’ connected health products and the clinical background on the U-Scan platform. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Meet Professor Marie Courbebaisse, a nephrologist with the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Of course, few have more of your data already than those very same organizations and, thank goodness, they are there to also help us get access to care and get it paid for. There could be a similar discussion around how the players in the health care system are evolving. Give people’s data to a big insurer? How could you?”. Not really.

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Chilmark Research

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As heard at the water cooler after one regulation-focused session, “This is like HIPAA on steroids.” All of this simply confirms what we already know: The connected health model will be built upon a best-of-breed ecosystem of companies and technologies, rather than one soup-to-nuts vendor offering.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do. Much of this is due to the fact that U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

In the health/care data ecosystem, stakeholders are addressing the specific challenges related to personal health information (PHI) which HIPAA isn’t covering well in this era of Big Data, cloud computing, and of course, bad actors in the dark cybersecurity breach market. The reality of U.S. In the U.S.,

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