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Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Patient Data while Managing Large Volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Healthcare IT Today

How can healthcare organizations ensure the security and privacy of patient data while managing large volumes of electronic health records (EHRs) ? Andrew Hines, Chief Technology Officer at Canvas Medical While managing large volumes of electronic health records, it’s critical to keep patient data safe and secure.

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Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Enhance Data Integrity and Streamline Processes

Healthcare IT Today

Emerging technologies can even detect anomalies or mistakes which can help a patient get the care they need faster or give you more accurate data. Jaimes Blunt, EVP of Infrastructure at emtelligent Healthcare data volumes continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, and most of healthcares critical data remains buried in unstructured text.

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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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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. These methods could include: Making reidentification of “deidentified” health data illegal.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Managing Competing Government Data Requirements and Best Practices to Balance Sharing with Protection

Healthcare IT Today

The desire for healthcare data has never been greater. This is true for healthcare organizations that want legitimate access to data. Hackers that want to breach healthcare data. Startups that want appropriate access to data and some who want to push the envelope of what data should be shared.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

patients were offered online access to their health records by providers or insurers, and one-half of them accessed the EHR at least once in the last year. One in four of those offered online EHR access looked at them more than 3 times. Half of U.S. 40, published April 2018. 40, published April 2018.

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