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How data and technology influence health in ways that doctors don’t

KevinMD

APRIL 22, 2023

In theory, the widespread adoption of health information technology (HIT) and integrated applications can improve patients’ access to their health information and facilitate patient-centered care.

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Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Enhance Data Integrity and Streamline Processes

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. Today, we are going to focus on emerging technologies in regard to health information management.

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

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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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Healthcare Data and Analytics – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions ! Additionally, individual plans often have unique processes, which can result in variations, efficiency challenges, and data aggregation inconsistencies. The answer lies in harnessing data.

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Key Challenges in Maintaining Compliance with Regulatory Standards in the Context of Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Currently, one such tricky area is health information management. To learn more about this, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them what are the key challenges in maintaining compliance with regulatory standards, such as HIPAA , in the context of health information management?

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Telehealth’s Biggest Challenge: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Data Security

GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, with this digital transformation comes the significant challenge of ensuring patient privacy and data security. As the healthcare industry embraces technology, protecting sensitive health information has become paramount. Potential Risks of Data Breaches Data breaches in healthcare can lead to severe consequences.

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

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“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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Particle Health’s Latest White Paper Offers the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Health Information Network (HIN) Data Exchange Performance Metrics to Date

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2023

Healthcare’s National Network Data Exchanges , analyzes not only quantitative comparisons of the data currently exchanged on HINs but also the work that still needs to be done in order to spread the true value of the networks across all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem. 2023: State of U.S. The paper, 2023: State of U.S.

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HHS' final interoperability rules standardize APIs for patient health data access through apps

Mobi Health News

MARCH 9, 2020

CMS-regulated payers will begin supporting HL7 FHIR APIs next year, allowing third-party developers to include claims data and other patient health information in their apps.

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Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.” Seven in ten U.S.

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Data exchange company Moxe Health secures $25M

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The company offers tools to payers and providers to share patient health information and will use the funds to scale its operations.

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HHS publishes AI Strategic Plan, with guidance for healthcare, public health, human services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2025

" So the agency will soon share national guidelines specific to health AI and build sandboxes for industry collaboration, and explore using AI for dynamic AI risk assessment. Enterprise Taxonomy: AI Analytics Clinical and business intelligence Predictive analytics Data and Information

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Fertility app Premom shared users' health data without consent, FTC says

Mobi Health News

MAY 19, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission alleges the company shared personal health information with two China-based firms, Google and analytics company AppsFlyer.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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Altera Digital Health Joins The Sequoia Project to Advance Nationwide Data Exchange

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Membership will drive continued innovation in interoperability, foster collaboration with industry leaders and ensure understanding of current regulations and standards for clients leveraging the dbMotion Solution , Altera’s data platform that aggregates and harmonizes data from multiple systems to improve patient outcomes.

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e4health Provides Data Quality and Migration

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hark and Todd Goughnour, VP, Health Information Management, discuss the value of data quality in this video. Even more important than correct billing, Goughnour says, is making informed decisions for patients. AI also produces inaccurate models if it is based on bad data. Some 58% still have data in legacy systems.

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Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Trust is a precursor to health engagement, I learned way back in 2008 when I collaborated with Edelman on the first Health Engagement Barometer in 2008. This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health.

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Georgia partners with Aetna Health for Georgia Unity, a social data platform for whole health integration

Mobi Health News

MARCH 12, 2024

At HIMSS24, Dr. Denise Hines and Shirelle King of Georgia Health Information Network discuss social integration to foster trust in underserved communities.

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What to expect in Asia-Pacific health IT in 2025?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Dr Tawan Chitchulanon, Chief Medical Officer, PRINCIPAL Healthcare Company, Thailand Following the global trend and support by the Thai Government, the trend of using AI in healthcare, telemedicine, and digital personal data will [increase] in Thailand.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.” CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S.

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The New “Paging Dr. Google?” DTC-AI for Health Care

Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2025

A key differentiator for the new-tech-DTC/AI purveyors is that “Bit Tech maintains control over their own data ecosystems,” and do not, in Dr. M’s estimation, “cede(d) control of their data assets to EHR vendors.”

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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry.

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Cerebral says 3M affected by a patient data breach

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 13, 2023

In the notice, Cerebral said it discovered on January 3 that it "had disclosed certain information that may be regulated as protected health information under HIPAA to certain third-party platforms and some subcontractors without having obtained HIPAA-required assurances."

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 2: Bit by Bit, Putting It Together – Planning, Implementing, Pivoting

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2024

In another timing-is-uncanny event, on May 1 st , Verizon published its 17 th annual 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report noting “new and innovative attacks” deployed on top of the “tried-and-true” tactics that have been successfully used by hackers and bad actors in the previous 16 years.

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%.

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. We first note overall that fewer patients, year on year 2021-2023, seem willing to share data with ANY entity.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, Part 3: The Futures of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2024

health care organizations have experienced a data breach, one-third in the last 3 years, according to Software Advice’s 2024 Healthcare Data Security Survey released in May 2024. That might look like a single event to the patient, but the data from that visit is sent to insurance companies, providers, and pharmacies as needed.

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Health Commons Project Completes Acquisition of OneHealthPort to Advance Healthcare Innovation and Access across Washington State

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Health Commons Project , a leading nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare access and quality through technology and innovation, today announced it has completed the acquisition of OneHealthPort , Washington State’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and prominent provider of health data solutions.

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The Limits of HIPAA Auditing and What Needs to Change

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2025

The following is a guest article by Jay Trinckes , Data Protection Officer/CISO at Thoropass The healthcare industry faces a critical cybersecurity challenge. Despite the stringent requirements outlined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enforcement remains alarmingly limited.

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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. ATA, which represents the full range of providers that deliver telehealth, has intervened with some states as they grapple with health data privacy legislation, he said.

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Patient Privacy at Risk: The Hidden Flaws in Healthcare Data De-Identification (And How to Fix Them)

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Michael Blum, Founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI In an era where modifying a single DNA sequence can cure disabling diseases and a retinal scan can reveal important, unappreciated chronic diseases, the three-decade-old practice of data de-identification has become healthcare’s equivalent of using a paper lock in a digital world.

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A Fresh Approach to Safeguarding Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The following is a guest article by Andrea Hopkins , Chief Information Security Officer at Juno Health Think about whats in your own health records for a moment: your name, address, Social Security number, insurance informationnot to mention diagnoses.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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

Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

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. With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. mobile consumers.

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Innovative Remote Health Monitoring Solutions for Blood Oxygen & Physiologic Data

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Remote health monitoring solutions such as remote patient monitoring (RPM), has revolutionized how physicians manage and treat patients, particularly those with chronic conditions. Healthcare providers can now use advanced medical devices to track important health data. These conditions often need regular checks of health data.

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Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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Looking back on a year of interoperability milestones at eHealth Exchange

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The health information network's executive director, Jay Nakashima, sees big progress with 21st century Cures Act compliance, TEFCA, data quality, FHIR adoption and information exchange among providers, public health agencies and labs.

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UnitedHealth offers update on cyberattack data analysis, systems restoration

FierceHealthIT

APRIL 22, 2024

UnitedHealth Group provided an update late Monday on its analysis of the data accessed in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and said it identified files that contain personal and health informa | UnitedHealth Group provided an update late Monday on its analysis of the data accessed in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and said it identified (..)

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A Look at Changes in the NEW HIPAA Security Rule

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

The new rule requires that a risk analysis includes a comprehensive asset inventory and a network map showing how data flows into, within, and out of, the organization, which must be updated at least annually. For example, a system that stores passwords for an electronic health record system but does not contain any health information itself.

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Telehealth’s Biggest Challenge: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Data Security

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Particle Health’s Latest White Paper Offers the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Health Information Network (HIN) Data Exchange Performance Metrics to Date

HHS' final interoperability rules standardize APIs for patient health data access through apps

Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Data exchange company Moxe Health secures $25M

HHS publishes AI Strategic Plan, with guidance for healthcare, public health, human services

Fertility app Premom shared users' health data without consent, FTC says

The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Altera Digital Health Joins The Sequoia Project to Advance Nationwide Data Exchange

e4health Provides Data Quality and Migration

Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Georgia partners with Aetna Health for Georgia Unity, a social data platform for whole health integration

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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

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

The New “Paging Dr. Google?” DTC-AI for Health Care

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Cerebral says 3M affected by a patient data breach

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

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Health Commons Project Completes Acquisition of OneHealthPort to Advance Healthcare Innovation and Access across Washington State

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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

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Looking back on a year of interoperability milestones at eHealth Exchange

UnitedHealth offers update on cyberattack data analysis, systems restoration

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