Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Ankur Mathakia, Solutions Architect, Interoperability, Digital Health at Nordic Global Consulting From a technical perspective, there are ways that healthcare organizations will protect the privacy of their patients while still promoting innovation, especially in population health. We do this because it’s what our participants expect.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The inclusion of codes for both acute and chronic diseases highlights the importance of RPM in managing various health conditions and the recognition of its value by the CMS. Acute Disease Examples Acute diseases can come on suddenly and range from minor to severe conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

As exciting as advancements have been, however, Joy Pritts, fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation and former chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, raised concerns about virtual care technology outpacing privacy protection policies. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference , in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

If you’re not sure whether you’re participating in TEFCA, contact your health information exchange (HIE), QHIN, or electronic health record (EHR) provider. For example, eHealth Exchange participants are taking advantage of its single API to join Carequality and TEFCA with no additional subscription fees or paperwork to sign.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). The Manatt document is a wonderful example of a company’s clear articulation of values and corporate social responsibility in an era of declining trust between citizens and institutions, found in the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2024

UpScriptHealth also works with other medical device companies to increase access – for example, it powers telehealth consultations for Spark Biomedical's Sparrow Ascent, the only FDA-cleared, drug-free, non-addictive, non-invasive, wearable treatment technology for the relief of opioid withdrawal symptoms. With the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

But trust is in short supply when it comes to consumers openness to share their personal information we learn through a new study published in JAMA , Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses. A few over-arching findings: Consumers’ views of sharing health data depend on context.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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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.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

.” OCR’s Allegation of Cerebral Telehealth The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the US Health and Human Services department in charge of investigating and sanctioning HIPAA violations, has posted the results of their current investigation of Cerebral. HIPAA investigations don’t occur in a vacuum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Please talk a bit about connectivity and data security issues in healthcare IoT. Today, IoT devices collect vast amounts of health data, which is often transmitted across various networks before reaching healthcare providers. and GDPR in Europe.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it. 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.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A non-healthcare example would be a smartphone app designed to listen to music using earbuds to engage with iTunes or Apple Music on one’s smartphone. Assume, for example, that a blood pressure cuff gives a false negative reading. To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 Misrepresented its HIPAA Compliance.

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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That’s where Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Real-Time Health Data Streaming come in. These technologies are revolutionizing modern healthcare, making it easier to manage chronic health conditions through EHR data integration. Learn more about how disease management programs streamline this process.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 9, 2019

HIPAA-Drive But healthcare is also an industry, especially in the US, and it can be immensely profitable. There will always be a tension at the blurry borderlines between data collection for the purpose of improving a service and surveillance capitalism.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 29, 2019

Slack noted the importance of holding onto its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance — which, if breached, could land the company in hot water with steep fines and criminal penalties. It's likely that HIPAA compliance will extend to communication features within months. million in penalties.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. My focus will be on how these can be best designed and delivered to bolster self-care in this participatory health mode, to deliver on the Quadruple Aim. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It can increase and enhance data analysis to improve patient experiences and outcomes. For example, unstructured conversational data — recorded conversations occurring thousands of times daily across healthcare organizations worldwide — provides a wealth of information and insights.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Telehealth is the use of electronic information and communication technologies to provide health-related services remotely, such as virtual consultations, remote monitoring, and patient education. This data can then be used to monitor and efficiently manage chronic conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2023

Lessons Learned From a Health System’s Internal Data Breach. An Alabama health system recently fired an employee who accessed 2,500 patient records without authorization. IT staffing company Talent Group acquired Queen Consulting Group , which specializes in Epic implementations and other areas of health and pharma IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Marlena Herrera, Director, Customer Success at Protegrity The alignment and culmination of technologies and standards to address interoperability and data sharing will improve the ability of providers to provide quality healthcare services to their patients. Ultimately, the healthcare journey should revolve around the patient.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 12, 2023

Nonetheless, as technology continues to advance, it's likely that homomorphic encryption will become an increasingly important tool for protecting sensitive healthcare data. What are the earliest examples of homomorphic encryption for healthcare data?

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They outline the importance of using representative data in healthcare provision and have compiled this information into a research-ready database. Regulatory Compliance: Adherence to Standards: Kaiser Permanente adheres to relevant regulatory standards, such as HIPAA and GDPR, to ensure that its use of AI complies with legal requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

For example, if the clinic uses the portal for its primary method of communication, appointment requests, billing, and refill requests, then the patient should be made aware of this and be required to make an account on the portal. The primary intended purpose of the portal should be communicated to the patient.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Telehealth.org readers will also recall the January 4 research report titled, Some Telehealth Platforms Are Tracking Sensitive Patient Data: Are They Violating HIPAA ? It showed how 49 or 50 telehealth platforms investigated by researchers shared sensitive healthcare data with marketing companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For example, CRMs don’t do great with anonymous users and really only focus on the known, logged in patients. CRMs also have never solved well for digital data and thus have a limited view, so they don’t have enough data to drive real use cases that change the patient experience.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The ability to track their own health metrics, combined with the security of receiving regular feedback from healthcare providers, contributed to a sense of reassurance and reduced anxiety. Its HIPAA-compliant platform enables healthcare providers to remotely track physiologic data, offering timely feedback and preventing exacerbations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2020

Recent allowances made by the HHS Office for Civil rights, which said it won't impose penalties on providers who use non-HIPAA-compliant consumer platforms such as FaceTime, Facebook Messenger or Skype, were game-changers for many small practices and outpatient providers, enabling them to connect with patients quickly and easily.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key.

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