Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

" However, he cautioned, the relaxation of HIPAA enforcement around telehealth tools "is intended to be time-limited." " "I wouldn't suggest a small practice try and build out a business plan" on non-HIPAA-compliant software, he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2020

As a pharmacy group, our frontline employees are, of course, still very much going into work to fill prescriptions and serve customers. […]. The following is a guest article by Marshall Frost, VP of IT and Vendor Management, Longs Pharmacy Solutions.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 14, 2020

Secure COVID Telehealth Services Over the course of the past couple of months, telehealth has expanded exponentially, but questions still loom about secure COVID telehealth services. The post Secure COVID Telehealth Services: Has HIPAA Gone Away? A recent study found that in the next five years, it is expected that … Read more.

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TheraNest

JULY 23, 2019

How to Stay HIPAA Compliant in the World of Social Media. While health companies need to take great pains to make sure they are in HIPAA compliance, which includes all the cyber and physical security mandates, one thing commonly overlooked is social media security. Common HIPAA violations pertaining to social media.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

If you, as a behavioral health professional, violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you must follow certain obligations and procedures to rectify the situation. Below then, is a suggested list of steps for a practitioner who wonders, “What Happens if you violate HIPAA?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

HIPAA includes a requirement for MINIMUM NECESSARY ACCESS. Everyone knows that HIPAA requires patient information to be kept private and not shared with friends, family members, or anyone else without the patient’s authorization. HIPAA requires that computer activity logs be reviewed to identify unauthorized or inappropriate access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“There was only one practical option: Rapid implementation of HIPAA-compliant telemedicine workflows,” Truesdell said. Rush had a staff typically used to seeing approximately 50,000 patients per month now asking to be redeployed to do other work or they would be furloughed. She points to two work streams.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

She said, “of course it can,” as the day’s content proved out. But the non-traditional data bytes (detailed in the Cracked Labs graphic above) that industry, and especially retail at large, are mashing up aren’t usually covered by HIPAA, unless they reside in HIPAA-covered entities’ information systems.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

If you, as a behavioral health professional, violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you must follow certain obligations and procedures to rectify the situation. Although the broader topic is covered in a previous Telehealth.org article , many of our CME & CE course participant s want more detail.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

OCR has done a lot around HIPAA including the enforcement discretion around HIPAA penalties associated with telehealth. Of course, Mitch Parker pointed out what the enforcement discretion really means and that the […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2020

ChristianaCare this week announced the launch of its Home Care Coach, a HIPAA-eligible Alexa Skill aimed at meeting the needs of home health patients. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic inevitably complicates home health care provision, especially because vulnerable members of the community are often the ones relying on it.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 29, 2023

According to the US Department of Human Services (HHS), healthcare professionals can share HIPAA-protected health information (HIPAA PHI) with one another without written content in several circumstances. This article will give several examples of the circumstances under which HIPAA PHI can be shared, and review reasonable safeguards.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Today, that e-script could be communicated by doctor, pharmacist, nurse, or other health care professional via a text message sent with a Medscape or JAMA article , or a recipe emailed (via HIPAA-compliant secure portal, of course) from a dietitian’s website.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Of course, with every new technology comes abuse of that technology. The Intersection of HIPPA and AI Solutions When it comes to healthcare, specifically the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, we need to consider two critical concepts before we look at AI solutions developed by a vendor in the HIPAA realm.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Keeping PHI secure is the main goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA protects patients by limiting who can access PHI, when they can access it, and how they use it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

There are several ways in which regulatory relaxations have allowed telemedicine to soar during the pandemic: HIPAA flexibility, telemedicine waivers through CMS, cost-sharing, and billing and reimbursement changes. Of course there will be times when in-person care is preferable, and we are now becoming able to understand that balance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

We primarily use a HIPAA-compliant Zoom system along with our Epic EHR to conduct our telehealth operations,” she said. The institute already had an existing HIPAA-compliant Zoom account and it already was on the Epic EHR. When Kennedy Krieger looked at expanding its telehealth services, it did not seek any new vendor support.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2022

The following is a guest article by Richard Barretto, Chief Information Security Officer Progress. Files and Documents are a cybercriminal gold mine. Healthcare companies have a lot on their IT plate, but often neglect their most vital assets: files, documents, and records.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

We use a HIPAA-compliant software that allows for two-way, high definition video and audio. Over the course of three weeks, from the end of August through early September 2020, I collected a total of 115 surveys. First, have robust and easy-to-use telehealth software and affirm that it is HIPAA-compliant.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Of course, synthetic can’t map real data perfectly while still being private. Differential privacy-based solutions require a high degree of expertise to make these systems compliant with regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, and data quality can vary dramatically based on how the system is tuned.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? With a HIPAA-secure communication channel and easy integration with personal devices, telemedicine removes challenges faced by remote and isolated patients. How do you see all of this affecting physicians and their busy schedules?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This initiative has equipped 8,300 healthcare professionals across 350 cities and 700 zip codes in California, delivered 226,000 course hours in critical areas of chronic care management, disease management protocols, and digital health. Participants have highlighted the practical impact of these courses on their careers and patient care.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Of course, privacy and AI both make front-page news these days. HIPAA was last revised in 2013. The computerization of daily life has evolved from a set of technical decisions to a matter of urgent public policy over the past few decades. Concerns over the data protection of individuals dates back to the 1970s.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards. Currently, ChatGPT does not meet HIPAA standards. Today, there is a technical solution for every such need.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

It allows providers to set target metrics for patients, charting a course of engagement in real-time with connected medical devices, and connect with patients from a single dashboard. Salesforce's Intelligent Appointment Management is meant to help patients schedule appointments on their computers or mobile devices.

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Clocktree

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

They will appear in your current client list, and you are ready to communicate with them on our secure, HIPAA compliant platform. Of course, you still have the option to send an invitation to a prospective client yourself. Once you approve the client’s request, they are fully registered as a client of your practice.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare organizations, including doctors, to maintain the privacy and security of patient data. A practical HIPAA compliance checklist is essential to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations. What Is HIPAA Compliance?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Of course, security is also a patient-communication issue – understanding, as Tripathi put it, "what risks you're taking when you have that data in your own control." " "Thinking about privacy and security from the beginning is the only way to protect information," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2024

In adherence to healthcare regulations like Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, there is a clear mandate for a human component in machine-assisted translations to ensure accuracy mitigate risks associated with patient privacy, and HIPAA compliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Patient Unified Health Scoring also provides actionable insights that can help identify potential risks the patients may face and help inform the next-best course of action for that patient.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

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. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2019

Patients use emocha, a HIPAA-compliant mobile application, on their smartphone to video record themselves taking their medication, report side effects and receive medication reminders. They have access to two-way, HIPAA-secure messaging to communicate with their healthcare provider. Guam uses the technology for TB patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

Of course, the answer is that I’ve never heard that “in control of my data” scenario from any of the healthcare touch point organizations in my own healthcare life.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This is a HIPAA requirement for business associates. Identify various scenarios and plan your course of action accordingly. Ensure the vendor contractually agrees to notify you of a data breach as soon as possible, especially if it is a vendor with access to PHI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth.

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