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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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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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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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 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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Parmjot Bains, CEO at ImpediMed The integration of MedTech and digital health tools is transforming population health management by offering precise, noninvasive diagnostics that catch conditions early. This shift accelerates the adoption of best practices in population health management.

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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 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Hospital-grade wearables equipped with secure data integration, for example, can help guide relevant, timely decisions from care teams regarding whether a patient needs to be hospitalized immediately, or can receive treatment elsewhere and remain outside the hospital for the time being.

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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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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In search of this inside look, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – as public health initiatives evolve, how are organizations incorporating evidence-based practices and research to design and evaluate interventions that have a measurable impact on population health?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For example, masking passwords from users significantly reduces cyber risks and improves clinical workflows today, getting rid of the password entirely only improves that benefit. Richard Wallace, Cyber Security Threat Analyst at Vercara In the past year alone, nearly 400 healthcare institutions were successfully hit by ransomware.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid-March, as soon as New York’s Governor issued the stay-at-home order, the institute’s leadership, clinicians, health information technology staff, clinical operations staff and communications staff worked to rapidly develop and deploy basic telehealth functionality across our organization,” Lever recalled.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JANUARY 28, 2020

Whilst the earliest electronic medical records (EMRs) were created over 40 years ago, we’ve only seen the mass shift in health information go from analogue to digital in the past 10 years. You can now search for health information online, simply by typing in your symptoms. Mobile health. More thought leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The four-day summit focused on the evolving role of HIE, new interoperability successes and the valuable implications of harnessing data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. It can extract information from medical research, EHRs , audio files, and chatbot conversations.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JULY 9, 2020

COVID-19 has been a catalyst for fast-tracking the digital transformation of the NHS and many have turned to digital for health information and access to services. The NHS website, for example, saw a sharp increase to 3.4 More thought leadership. Originally posted here. appeared first on Digital Leaders.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In our conversation, Alderman sheds light on their recent decision to partner with Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) for Direct messaging and Health Information Service Provider (HISP) services. He shares why they chose SES and some of the business impacts resulting from the change.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

They illustrate that a person’s ability to use digital tools can significantly impact their health outcomes. For example, in areas with limited internet access, adopting low-bandwidth digital solutions tailored to common mobile devices could enhance member engagement and improve health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

"At Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the country, our leaders have always recognized the importance and the power of data, but the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the meaningful benefits of investing in the resources and infrastructure needed for a strong data analytics department," she said.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Patrick Ndimubanzi, Honorable Minister of State, Public Health and Primary Health Care, Rwanda Digital Health Innovation in Rwanda Let's explore 5 examples of Digital Health innovation in Rwanda ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to blood delivery by drones and telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

An incident response plan is essential to provide impacted parties with a clear understanding of the protected health information (PHI) and/or electronically protected health information (ePHI) that was compromised, when the incident occurred, and what action is being taken by the organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

This is mainly due to misuse, such as unintentionally compromising consumer credentials, Personal Identifiable Information (PII), and Personal Health Information (PHI). For example, a recent Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study of ForgeRock CIAM shows that over three years healthcare enterprises may achieve: $4.7M

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to the FTC, GoodRx has been funneling personal health information from these consumers to advertising companies and platforms such as Facebook, Google and Criteo, along with other third parties such as Branch and Twilio. More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since 2017.

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JUNE 2, 2024

Corporate Development for Healthcare Technology companies in EMEA Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. For example, AI and ML could be used to develop automated systems that can diagnose diseases, develop treatment plans, and monitor patients' progress.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Already, several large networks – including mine – have signaled their intent to apply.

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MAY 1, 2021

Health information is incredibly complex. Important parts of a patient’s history are often scattered across multiple systems, and gaps in information can lead to medical errors or even delays in treatment. Care Studio uses Google technology to display relevant information in fewer clicks. Intro to Care Studio.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

I have also seen HIPAA training courses that don’t educate staff that HIPAA lives on and protects health information for 50 years after a patient dies. While there is no mention of criminal charges in the DCH Health Systems notice, this incident might be being investigated for criminal intent. retained for 6 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Certain pieces of clinical data, such as medication history, are not available to all healthcare providers in the same way, often locked away behind commercial models that are not logical where health is at risk and which can lead to serious patient harm. For example, staffing remains a debilitating problem across the continuum.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

Early examples of additional training of the LLM base models have shown promising results with improved performance. These data are held by care delivery organizations, patients, payers, academia, and industry (bio pharmas, contract research organizations, healthcare device vendors, etc.).

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

This will be driven by a number of factors, including the increasing availability of high-speed internet, the growing popularity of mobile devices, and the government's efforts to promote the use of health information technology (HIT). For example, patients can use their portals to receive reminders for vaccinations and screenings.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). And the next chapter begins!

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs.

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