Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

Ryu will serve as CEO of Risant Health when the merger is approved. In New Jersey, meanwhile, Cooper University Health Care and Cape Regional Health System have also recently signed a definitive agreement to merge resources. While neither has reported financial distress, many U.S. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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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. Also, it bears mentioning that the information below is not necessarily relevant if the client is a child.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Developing a culture of cyber- and health privacy-awareness must be a priority for health providers, who as they look to patients for greater health engagement, must bake their trust into health information systems. “The challenges created by legacy technologies are, by definition, decades in the making.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

.” The OECD report assesses digital health maturity across 22 countries: in addition to the U.S., The definition of “digital health” has not been set in stone (don’t we know it!) In health care, we have a plethora of standards for linking health information from disparate data sets.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“The security of online data is the top consideration for consumers across many forms of online activities including email, search, social media, banking, shopping and dating”… and using health apps. A new poll from Morning Consult, explained on their website, explains that For Consumers, Data Privacy Has a Fluid Definition.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The following is a guest article by Lauren Riplinger, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

The Sequoia Project released several resources to help organizations comply with the information blocking requirements of the 21st Century CURES Act. PointClickCare is partnering with the Michigan Health Information Network to help post-acute providers and case managers exchange data with MiHIN.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This simple process can allow medical and behavioral professionals to comment on readings or offer broad guidance related to devices that do not transmit digital information and therefore are not included in the definition of wearable devices. The danger is that the device is inaccurate. Register.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

As part of my advisory position on SHIFT Shift (formerly Protecting Privacy to Promote Interoperability PP2PI) was founded in 2018 and formalized in 2020 with a mission to advance safe, equitable, and patient-empowered sharing of health information. It should be by the time they finish their comments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge. Within healthcare, the technology and expertise exist to help providers, payers, public health, health information exchanges, and healthcare IT companies exchange data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Kno2’s passion to enable health information exchange for all includes connecting and representing the needs of historically overlooked healthcare segments including post-acute, therapies, EMS, vision, dental, behavioral health, specialty providers and others. Post-Acute Providers for the Win!

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The black market price tag of stolen protected health information (PHI) can go for $60 a record, compared to roughly $1 for a credit card or social security number. Right now, some of you may be thinking, “We’re safe; our video-only solution wasn’t HIPAA compliant at first but it definitely is now.” NIST 800-66 – HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Fragmented Healthcare Data is Costly for Patients and Providers Signed into law by President Obama in 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) mandated the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) across healthcare systems.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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Docnotes

JULY 30, 2018

As health care has evolved from paper, there is now an extraordinary quantity of our health information that is stored digitally in hospitals, medical offices, and (yes – see above) Apple, Google, etc. We usually give permission for care providers to exchange our information.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 6, 2018

The Patient is NOT the center of existing Health Information Exchange. Yet, the Health Information Exchange exists for the sole purpose of treating that Patient. The Health Information Exchanges today have an existing Architecture. When I 'used' I also mean the broadest definition.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) have both received considerable praise for their role in increasing patient engagement. However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 7, 2023

Legal and regulatory issues: Telemedicine involves the exchange of sensitive health information across jurisdictions and platforms, necessitating attention to privacy, security, consent, liability, reimbursement, licensing, and accreditation. Telemedicine: Definition, uses, benefits, and more. Merriam-Webster (2023). CDC (2020).

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 29, 2023

While many articles describe how patient gateways and portals can better serve the medical community, this article will also discuss behavioral health, substance use, and mental health applications. Federal privacy laws protect them, such as HIPAA in the United States and PIPEDA in Canada.

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Redox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Redox has worked with the major EHR vendors, CRMs, and Health Information Exchanges. To accomplish this, Redox utilizes HIPAA-eligible AWS services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run its container-based ecosystem. These capabilities are the new foundational requirements for digital health applications.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some examples where BPPC are used: Connecticut HIE: For release of Privileged Care information, a consent document SHALL be registered with HITE-CT in the form of a BPPC conformant document using the Opt-in for Legally Protected Data (ALL) policy. One can't simply have a code "HIPAA" which is understood everywhere as meaning the same thing.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 28, 2015

Privacy definition is far more than just 'confidentiality' or 'consent'. These efforts are caused by the interest, yet made complex by the lack of a simple definition for Privacy. The problem with defining Privacy, even in Healthcare, is that there really isn't a single definition of Privacy. Westin, Privacy and Freedom (1968).

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

Understanding Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Definition and concept RPM involves the use of technology to collect and transmit patient health data from remote locations to healthcare providers for assessment and intervention.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 11, 2024

Introduction to Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Definition and concept RPM involves the use of digital technologies to collect health data from individuals in one location and transmit it to healthcare providers in another location for assessment and intervention.

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American Well

JULY 21, 2015

I was definitely a big nerd. I mean it was a long process to get to that point but I definitely had a passion for tech when I was 8 or 9 or 10. And as you said, I think some of the business of consumer successes, and the kind of narrative of the ultra young founder is definitely fodder for some of the tech media. Very early on.

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HIStalk Interviews

AUGUST 8, 2018

My background throughout my entire professional services career, outside of running the global analytics business, was healthcare — life sciences, domestic government work, international healthcare work, providers in health insurance. We are very pro consumers getting their health information.

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American Well

JULY 21, 2015

I was definitely a big nerd. I mean it was a long process to get to that point but I definitely had a passion for tech when I was 8 or 9 or 10. And as you said, I think some of the business of consumer successes, and the kind of narrative of the ultra young founder is definitely fodder for some of the tech media. Very early on.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2024

To support the responsible and safe use of AI technology, it is critical that regulatory bodies introduce standards that dictate the network security measures that must be taken, new HIPAA considerations for AI technology, and put in place frameworks that prevent inequities.

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