Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

The specifics of the case and its repercussions for HIPAA business associates are discussed as part of overall HIPAA guidelines for healthcare professionals. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unlike the secure and HIPAA-compliant telehealth video platform provided by TheraNest, Apple’s FaceTime is not HIPAA compliant and therefore should never be used to see clients or complete telehealth sessions. However, even with the bug fixed FaceTime remains a non-HIPAA compliant platform for telehealth sessions.

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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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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. Then, What Happens If You Violate HIPAA. You will have 60 day s to submit your report. Breach Notification. Mitigation.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ever since data went online, health care organizations and others have been struggling to provide useful data for advanced analytics while guarding Protected Health Information (PHI). Data masking, data aggregation, synthetic data, and differential privacy are among the solutions, but each presents difficulties and limitations.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

million users that their protected health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok. Additionally, we can help with: relationship issues and divorce, stress management, anger management, LGBTQI+, grief and loss, traumatic life events, confidence and self-esteem, phobias, coping with illnesses.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Network connectivity is essential to aggregating the data required to build a complete patient record while addressing often forgotten treatment areas, such as adverse medication interactions and provider event notifications. Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. The company's next evolution of that journey is Azure Health Data Services. An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS22 Global Conference & Exhibition in Orlando.

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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 Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Charles Cinert, Chief Services Officer & General Manager at ClearDATA Wearables and IoT devices are undeniably a marvel of modern healthcare technology, continually evolving and offering unprecedented convenience and health monitoring capabilities that can improve patient health outcomes.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

The specifics of the case and its repercussions for HIPAA business associates are discussed as part of overall HIPAA guidelines for healthcare professionals. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For example, remote monitoring can be helpful for providing continuous real-time data, but the healthcare system has to be ready to receive the patient’s health information and have evidence-based parameters in place to ensure data accuracy and patient compliance. There are many different perspectives on digital tools.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The specifics of the case and its repercussions for HIPAA business associates are discussed as part of overall HIPAA guidelines for healthcare professionals. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

Federal guidelines like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) outline the responsibility of healthcare providers when it comes to creating, analyzing, and distributing Protected Health Information (PHI). Therefore, a breach in one system can affect entire networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. Finally, Sara gives us a glimpse of what’s next for them on their roadmap.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More granularly, most consumers (over two-thirds) were concerned about allowing apps or sites to access their location data, online banking, accepting cookies on sites, creating new accounts on apps or sites, sharing health information with apps or sites, online shopping, paying bills, and so on. Few people in the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The FTC press release published on February 1 explained that GoodRx operates a California-based digital health platform making prescription drug discounts, telehealth visits, and other health services available to consumers. GoodRx then used that information to target these users with health-related advertisements.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We sat down with Cedric Savarese, Founder and CEO of FormAssembly , a user-friendly and HIPAA-compliant forms platform, to learn the ins and outs of form building and why healthcare IT leaders should prioritize secure data collection at their organization. No-code / Low-code.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted. This critical information can help identify or avoid serious adverse events, including hospital readmissions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats. The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time.

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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. Back when sensitive patient information was stored in physical files, healthcare organizations only had to worry about the (rare) physical break-in. The problem is worse than you might realize.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

It was developed in direct response to the pandemic, and its purpose was to support the rapid development, deployment and testing of a mobile solution for tele-critical care services to respond to emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, medical trauma, natural disasters – or disaster events including war. HIPAA Compliant.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Biovitals’ AI-based treatment algorithms then enable software-based therapeutic interventions that signal to clinicians what they should do next to intervene, in order to prevent critical events that would otherwise lead to hospitalizations or visits to the emergency department.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

Some of the latest technologies or security approaches that every healthcare organization should have in place to address cybersecurity threats are automatic data retention periods for protected health information for SaaS-based tools like file storage and communication. Perhaps that’s too obvious.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Consequences for non-participation are currently unclear, although providers may be cited for non-compliance with federal information blocking regulations which, according to the recent HHS proposed rule could be up to $1 million per violation. Is this just another HIE? An intermediary can help.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Yes, wearable devices used in healthcare can involve telehealth if protected health information (PHI) is transmitted from the device to the clinician or, for example, to a clinician’s electronic health record (EHR). To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR.

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GlobalMed

MAY 21, 2019

Understandably, the panel audience asked about HIPAA requirements. Cybercriminals know disaster recovery often means an abundance of incoming personal data and will target insecure software to steal information. Telemedicine is changing the game on disaster resiliency and public health outcomes. Use a secure system.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It is critical to understand the threats to the organization, the business functions, and the information systems that store, process, and transmit protected health information. The second step is prioritizing initiatives to address the gaps, reinforce strengths, and monitor critical external events.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Sensato, a managed cybersecurity services company focused on protecting healthcare providers from ransomware events and other cybersecurity threats, was founded by long-time health information technology visionary John Gomez, who will join CloudWave as chief security and engineering officer.

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Especially for more serious, time-critical medical events, the extra minutes offered by continuous monitoring can be the difference between life and death. Some smaller hospitals have used RPM integration as a means to help upgrade in-house data security efforts, as well as to better integrate with EMR and meet HIPAA requirements.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

With all the legislative and regulatory development in process (TEFCA, 21 st Century Cures / information blocking, CMS initiative on data access as a condition of participation, national health cybersecurity strategy, etc.)

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

With all the legislative and regulatory development in process (TEFCA, 21 st Century Cures / information blocking, CMS initiative on data access as a condition of participation, national health cybersecurity strategy, etc.)

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