Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

James Rice, Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Protegrity Healthcare organizations can ensure secure patient data by enabling advanced data-centric security, including tokenization, masking, and anonymization, to ensure sensitive information remains protected and obfuscated while at rest, in transit, or in use.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Due to a lack of and incorrect personal health information, Grace was being treated for conditions she did not have. As a result, she does not have a family medical history for them. When something didn’t add up, Grace was sent to a new specialist and was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of 11. says Angela.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. Radiology reports, for example, are particularly difficult for patients to understand. Access alone, however, is not sufficient.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The top-demanded health consumer digital health applications included, The ability to find doctors and make appointments online, for 51% of people. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%. Finally, 33% of Americans are comfortable (net) sharing their health information with tech companies.

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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Simplifying prior authorizations would make health care services more efficient and lower the administrative burden on physicians. For example, chronic conditions would only need to be authorized every year instead of every month, lowering the administrative cost. This would contribute to the harmony of reporting metrics nationwide.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2025

An IMS also ensures that data protection efforts align with broader organizational goals while maintaining continuous oversight of sensitive patient information. First, ensure that all protected health information (PHI) is encrypted both at rest and in transit.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The rise in social engineering, ransomware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks have exposed these weaknesses and made health systems more aware of risks to sensitive patient data. Data Encryption Encrypting data both in transit and at rest helps safeguard patient information even if hackers gain access to networks.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2025

The Difficulty in Securing Health Data There are several reasons that healthcare organizations have found it particularly difficult to maintain security, despite the billions spent on cybersecurity. First, protected health information (PHI) is a valuable target for cybercriminals, more so than other types of data.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Data Privacy and Security: Robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. Data Privacy and Security: Implementing robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. This can help patients take a more active role in their own healthcare and improve their overall health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2025

A great example of this is the ALERT study, which uses AI to identify causes for the undertreatment of minority patients with heart valve disease who may benefit from minimally invasive therapies. This may require a lower-cost and simpler wearable solution.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

Rock Health assessed eight “digital health value propositions:” On-demand health care. Consumer health information. While M&A in digital health has slowed down, it’s useful to identify some of the deals conducted in the H1 2020 to see how vertical integration is scaling and shaping up.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Regarding their level of digital health competency, many are found to be capable of searching for health information and using it to practice a healthy lifestyle while there is low competency in using health information for disease and health management. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 10, 2023

Lavita’s decentralized platform provides a privacy-preserving infrastructure to securely share and analyze health data, and brings ownership, control, and value of health data back to individuals. Lavita platform will enable numerous applications within life science research, biopharma development, and healthcare innovation.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 3, 2023

In short, people flock to TikTok for health information, a trend that is not new. A study released earlier this year by Hall & Partner found that Gen Z and millennials are increasingly turning to TikTok for health advice and information instead of consulting their doctors. It also revealed that 18% of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this session "Cross-Border Collaborations: Improving Digital Health" (20 November, 13:00 - 13:50), speakers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond will share concrete examples of how governments and healthcare organisations are successfully collaborating across borders to implement various digital health initiatives.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. In the meantime, in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

We know that “health information” encompasses much more than data stored in a health plan’s claims system or a pharmacy benefit manager’s computer data base. Health is made as much outside of medical care providers’ sites as it is at home, at work, at play, at school.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

"Yet, if telehealth technologies are not designed, implemented, and contextualized within appropriate policies, these benefits cannot be realized, and instead could worsen health inequities within this population," they wrote. Telehealth technology design remains inaccessible for many, wrote the authors. ON THE RECORD.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

They come preloaded with telehealth applications, as well as links to educational materials that are specific to the patient group – for example, our transplant program.” It chose PadInMotion devices because they are familiar to the health system, having been used successfully in the past.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

That’s why 73% of health executives told Accenture they plan to develop internal ethical standards related to the use of AI to bolster responsible use of patients’ personal health information. Together, these three concepts blur lines across physical and simulated, immersive worlds.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To avoid negatively impacting biomedical research, the Privacy Rule carved out exceptions for the use of protected health information (PHI) in research , as well as the use of limited data sets , and determined that de-identified data was not considered PHI.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For example, when a clinic or healthcare facility refers a patient to a surgery center for a procedure, the patients health information needs to be transferred. Davis has come to realize that when patient data is made more portable and sharable, patient experience improves.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Several stakeholders are investing more and more in artificial intelligence, while others are timidly investigating AI-enabled digital health initiatives. A perfect example of best practice aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This is where Google comes in.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2025

In 2024 according to the Identity Theft Resource Centers 2024 Data Breach Report a whopping 237 million victim notices were sent out to Americans notifying them that had their health data exposed in a breach (190 million in the Change Healthcare Breach alone). Patient health information remains highly valuable on the black market.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange. This Provenance definition is now in mXDE along with examples and requirements CapabilityStatement.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Beyond TEFCA: Knocking Down Remaining Barriers To Exchange Beyond their TEFCA leadership, The Sequoia Project is uniquely positioned to tackle the remaining challenges to seamless and secure health information sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? For example, a physician should be able to see all of her appointments for the day at a glance in one panel.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Although the healthcare industry has been slower to move to the cloud due to the sensitive nature of its data, adoption has been on the rise in recent years (in part spurred by the pandemic), and today 47 percent of health organizations store protected health information (PHI) in the cloud , which increases their level of risk.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 10, 2025

For example, as technology advances, patients are becoming increasingly aware of the potential for improved healthcare experiences through online self-service apps and other digital tools. User expectations of healthcare are changing From various user research studies I conducted, some trends in healthcare were identified.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 20, 2025

For example, an insurer might be interested in offering the product as a benefit to its members, or an employer might want to provide it to employees as a wellness perk. Examples of Emerging B2C2B Models in Healthcare: Digital Therapeutics (DTx): DTx companies develop software-based therapeutic interventions for various conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

Jennifer McCaney told Healthcare IT News that the majority of executives in a recent study believe the FDA has responded more effectively to the evolving needs of medical innovation when compared to its global counterparts.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

However, the deployment of AI in health care necessitates vigilant oversight to prevent biases and ensure data integrity. Civitas suggests that by leveraging the established infrastructure of Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Health Data Utility (HDU) models, we can develop a robust framework for AI governance in health data management.

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