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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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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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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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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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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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 28, 2020

The MobiHealthNews staff shares its thoughts on how HIPAA, investor funding, digital health commercialization and other focus areas will be changing over the course of the new year.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 28, 2020

The MobiHealthNews staff shares its thoughts on how HIPAA, investor funding, digital health commercialization and other focus areas will be changing over the course of the new year.

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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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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Advancing Nursing Continuing Education with DrKumo Academy Digital Health courses Buena Park, CA – October 16, 2024 – The California Board of Registered Nursing (CBRN) approved DrKumo, a leader in secure, intelligent, and proven digital health solutions for Chronic Care, as a Continuing Education Provider (CEP), with license number 17991.

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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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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As health care grows more omnichannel and distributed, cybersecurity will become more challenging at the point-of-care and a big risk for health care providers under current HIPAA regulations.

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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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Mobi Health News

MARCH 9, 2018

But sometimes getting the right compliance for multiple products in several different countries can be a bit like running through an obstacle course. Cloud-based platform for digital health Datica has recently announced its next generation platform to manage HIPAA compliance on top of AWS and Microsoft Azure.

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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 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 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

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 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 Today

AUGUST 20, 2024

Adopting data security tools that provide this advanced level of visibility of all data is critical to ensuring HIPAA compliance but can also help hospitals protect internal data, like staff information. This ensures each user has the appropriate access permissions to minimize unauthorized data exposure.

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TheraNest

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Therapists can struggle with compliance in various areas, ranging from HIPAA to telehealth or advertising. For client communications, we highly recommend using your EHR to send protected health information (PHI) while staying HIPAA compliant. If you use telehealth, make sure your video conferencing solution is safe and HIPAA-compliant!

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For another, if a telehealth vendor captures and stores data outside of a provider’s electronic medical records (EMR), it can be harder to ensure HIPAA compliance. Of course, successful integration still requires the right technology and expertise to implement. These complications are more than theoretical. View our Solutions.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The intersection of HIPAA and AI technology presents new challenges for developers and patients alike, according to Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan at Inflectra. Generally speaking, HIPAA applies if AI takes data from medical records and processes it to provide decision support , though of course there’s more to consider as well.

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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 Today

MAY 23, 2023

Regulatory Compliance Mastery Of course, HIPAA is the most prevalent regulation healthcare organizations must adhere to, but over the last decade or so, we are seeing an increase of rules related to patient data. Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it.

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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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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 29, 2024

free-form notes from a triage nurse during initial patient assessment that are entered into the patient’s electronic medical record) in improving the performance of predictive modeling at the time of triage and throughout the ED course. Utilizing free-text data: The paper emphasizes the importance of free-text data (e.g.,

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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

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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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

JUNE 3, 2024

And, of course, remember to partner with a secure and vetted technology vendor. Pro tip: Look for a proven track record and HIPAA compliance. The next level of security is to rally the team by training employees and establishing clear data access and usage guidelines.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The department, in turn, matched Jorge and Dr. Fortier with an experienced mental health care interpreter, who signed a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement form to cover any digital transfers of information that includes protected health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Worse, these attacks are sometimes threatening patient safety, and causing regulatory non-compliance with HIPAA because of lost or stolen data. Of course, a high-performing VRM program involves a number of important factors beyond the technology itself. The problem is worse than you might realize.

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