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. Up to now, HIPAA-compliant data security and generative AI haven’t gone hand-in-hand as AI is trained on large datasets centrally and often by third parties.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Keragon , an AI-powered HIPAA-compliant automation platform for healthcare, has raised $7.5 For example, Womens Mental Health Specialists, a clinic serving over 1,000 patients, struggled with time-consuming manual processes that slowed down referrals and data transfers. million in an oversubscribed seed funding round.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Look for HIPAA compliance, EPCS compliance, HITRUST certification, ONC Certified HIT certification, SOC-2 Type II certification, and more. These practices play a critical role in maintaining data accuracy and compliance with regulations like HIPAA, while EMR and PM systems ensure data is encrypted and accessible through role-based controls.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Pritts noted that HIPAA is quite broad – but it doesn't apply to the entirety of health IoT. A diabetes monitor prescribed by a doctor is covered by HIPAA, she explained, but an online therapist who is not associated with your health plan or provider, and who only takes credit cards, is not.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 4, 2023

Responsible clinicians are likely to ask whether sharing protected health information (PHI) by telehealth companies equates to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Key aspects of HIPAA that might be relevant include: HIPAA requires covered entities (e.g., Clash of the Titans?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

While HIPAA revolutionized patient data protection in 1996, today’s interconnected digital landscape has rendered these safeguards obsolete. Additionally, since the Privacy Rule holds that de-identified data is not considered PHI, the relatedprivacy protections under HIPAA are lost once a data set is de-identified.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For example, intelligent summarization of patient risk and what has changed in a patients health history will help healthcare professionals to better understand when to act and intervene. We have all seen examples of hallucinations in the GenAI use cases.

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Digital Health Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A new article in JAMIA details the first six months of usage and cost metrics for NYU’s HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT 3.5 NYU Langone Health just lifted the curtain on its recent ChatGPT experiment , publishing an impressively candid look at all of the real-world data from its system-wide roll out.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

" Telehealth need not entirely replace in-person visits, he said, but practices could, for example, offer after-hours consultations or asynchronous services for patients who need virtual care. " However, he cautioned, the relaxation of HIPAA enforcement around telehealth tools "is intended to be time-limited."

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

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. Help our children achieve their potential.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

He noted the moves by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reimburse providers for services and allow telehealth care between states , and the relaxed HIPAA regulations around technology use , as important contributors to the uptick in telehealth availability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. For example, if a patient visit finishes 15 minutes early, he has 15 minutes at his desk to do something else productive.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Avoiding HIPAA violations goes beyond air tight technical system controls. Consequently, Congress incorporated into HIPAA provisions that mandated the adoption of Federal privacy protections for individually identifiable health information. ” – HIPAA Journal. . ” – HIPAA Journal.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Examples: Companies developing AI-powered diagnostics, gene editing therapies, or wearable devices for remote patient monitoring. Examples: Companies offering secure data storage for patient records, platforms facilitating telehealth consultations, or government agencies streamlining the approval process for new medical devices.

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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? However, there are important distinctions between the two.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

"For example, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services declared it would reimburse for telemedicine visits in both rural and urban communities, and services could be delivered into patients' homes," study authors wrote. The shift to telemedicine was made simpler, researchers note, by regulatory and reimbursement changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2025

Case in point: the industrys longstanding need to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). For example, AI-enabled risk assessment models are helping improve early diagnosis rates to treat patients sooner. Its that same data protection mindset they need to apply when using AI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Still, Flannery was careful to point out that the consulting physicians are not practicing medicine or directly diagnosing patients – an example of the ways existing licensure rules, currently on hold during the pandemic, could affect telehealth provision in the future. He also pointed to the easing of HIPAA restrictions by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

As a result of recent HHS guidance with adapted HIPAA guidelines, the integration enables providers to initiate a video call with a patient from directly within the app. ” For example, Riad connected with an acute care patient via FaceTime who was complaining of neck pain. If it continues, it’s a huge benefit.”

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When considering healthcare cybersecurity best practices, HIPAA security risk assessments and HIPAA remediation plans are essential. Examples of endpoint protection include password protection, encryption, and antivirus software. HIPAA requires organizations to keep exact copies of files at an offsite data backup facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

There are several ways in which regulatory relaxations have allowed telemedicine to soar during the pandemic: HIPAA flexibility, telemedicine waivers through CMS, cost-sharing, and billing and reimbursement changes. To take this a step further, physicians are different from lawyers, for example.

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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. This article will give several examples of the circumstances under which HIPAA PHI can be shared, and review reasonable safeguards.

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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. In the U.S.,

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

For example, it can be used to share information with patients and answer their questions. Care Studio is designed to adhere to industry-wide regulations that protect patient data and govern how data can be used and processed, including HIPAA. In the trial phase, around 250 clinicians will be able to use it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Nor was it HIPAA-compliant, a major concern. "The HIPAA waivers for telehealth implemented during the pandemic were critical for the widespread adoption of telehealth," said Dr. Nimish Shah, cofounder of Progressive Therapeutics. So the HIPAA waivers made sense. These apps got the job done, but they were disjointed.

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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.” The issue is mainly HIPAA compliance, but patients can have access to their health information via an embedded app if they wish,” Shemesh explained.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2025

For example, the PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaire shrinks from 329 questions to just 35 when using a validated P2PE solution. Organizations using E2EE must manage encryption keys themselves and ensure all systems comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA or GDPR. Any failure in this process could result in severe penalties.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

People with communication-related disabilities, for example, may not be able to use video-based services, and patient portals are not always compatible with assistive technology. Writers also flagged the HIPAA flexibilities around telehealth. Telehealth technology design remains inaccessible for many, wrote the authors.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. But will HIPAA protect American patients in this world of AI, Big Data velocity and volume, and persistent social check-ins? This week, Health 2.0 Deven and Vince will teach me more on this evolving challenge that touches all of us.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

HITN: Perhaps you could give an example, driven by the pandemic, where telemonitoring has helped clinicians from different modalities who have been brought into the ICU to help deal with a new disease like COVID-19?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The two sources most-used for seeking health-related information are medical information websites (THINK: WebMD and Sharecare, for example, used by 53% of U.S. KRC Research polled 1,700 U.S. adults 18 and over in May-June 2018. adults), and the doctor, used by 48% of people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Richard Tytus, associate clinical professor at McMaster University and cofounder and medical director of Banty, a vendor of a HIPAA-compliant video platform used for telemedicine. This feedback then should be forwarded to the clinic so that it can tighten any screws it needs to.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A great example of this is de-identified patient data sets, where we’re able to take a large volume of data and determine trends. Diana Sonbay-Benli, VP & Chief Product Officer, Cognizant TriZetto Healthcare Products at Cognizant Since the advent of HIPAA, almost a career’s duration ago, we’ve focused on the safeguarding of data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2023

HeraCARE delivers configurable and automated notifications and features HIPAA-compliant telehealth call and chat functionality. The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), for example, has recently digitised its delivery of prenatal care by implementing the Pregnancy Online Platform NALHN , which it developed with Personify Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By modernizing the HIPAA Security Rule and enforcing stricter compliance measures, these changes aim to enhance the protection of sensitive patient data and the broader healthcare ecosystem. Now is the time to act.

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