Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. You can read the full HIMSS blog here.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This week, the news broke that a data breach at the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital had exposed private health information on nearly 10,000 people. According to a story appearing in the Boston Globe, an authorized third party got to data stored in software used by MGH researchers.

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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. Post-Acute Providers for the Win!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 10, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The healthcare industry generates approximately 30% of the world’s data volume. i Unfortunately, this data is often coded using a varied number of coding systems which makes it difficult to consolidate, standardize and deduplicate data for continuity of care, analytics, and AI applications.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Health data analysis: Utilising machine learning and data science to extract meaningful insights from health data. Personalised health recommendations: Providing tailored advice and guidance based on individual health profiles. Receive personalised health recommendations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2024

MediSecure hack exposed data of 13 million Australians Approximately 12.9 million Australians had their health information stolen in the recent MediSecure hack. In an update, MediSecure said affected individuals included those who used its service between March 2019 and November 2023.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 23, 2024

For instance, AI is particularly effective in telemedicine consultations for managing chronic conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health issues. By tracking patients’ health data over time, AI tools can predict flare-ups or complications, prompting timely intervention and personalized care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

Suddenly, a user with minimal computer literacy and no programming or data science training whatsoever could ask an AI-based application to create a response to a question in simple everyday language, regardless of complexity of the underlying subject matter. The release of GPT3 in late 2022 changed all of that.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

David Lareau, CEO at Medicomp Systems 2025 will mark a critical shift from AI experimentation to standardization in clinical settings, with healthcare organizations implementing strict validation protocols to ensure AI tools are trained on real patient data rather than synthetic datasets.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) called on three telehealth companies to protect their patient’s sensitive health data. Who Is Protecting Patient Health Information? Sign up for newsletters here. Read More

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This video contains a wide-ranging discussion between Rubel and interviewer John Lynn about the current applications and future possibilities of synthetic data, LLMs, and generative AI. In all these cases, well-trained AI can work much faster and more cheaply than a human consultant.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. What do I mean? So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 28, 2025

Source: [link] NHS Scotland's new health and social care app is designed to significantly enhance patient self-management. Here's how: Increased Access to Information: Health Information: Access to reliable health information and resources, empowering patients to make informed decisions about their health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

AI algorithms that are trained on limited or poorly representative data sets can exhibit signs of bias in their results, skewing decision-making and possibly leading to ethnic, gender, and social discrimination and other unintentional consequences for the patients they serve.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Remote patient monitoring: Patients can use text messages to send health data, such as blood pressure readings or glucose levels, to their providers. This allows providers to monitor patients' health remotely and make adjustments to their care plans as needed. Patients can also respond to messages with text or images.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

Data Must Lead to Better Outcomes – Divurgent According to Hannah Ellerbee, Chief Customer Officer at Divurgent , health data was a hot topic of discussion in the ViVE2023 exhibit hall. However, what she didn’t hear enough of, was how that data was leading to better outcomes.

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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.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

digital literacy training, user-friendly interfaces) Workflow integration: How do you seamlessly integrate telehealth into existing clinical workflows? Methodology (Queen): Data quality and bias: How do you ensure the AI is trained on diverse and representative datasets to avoid bias and ensure accurate results across different populations?

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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). Time to access data can be reduced by 95% or more, lowering costs and speeding time to value.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

AI enables analysis of these conversations and the compilation of large datasets to inform better decision-making, identify personnel training needs and pinpoint pain points patients encounter along their journey. Biases can lead to differential treatment and negative patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

" Elizabeth Lever, Institute for Family Health. Supporting the residency-training and other teaching programs by allowing trainees and preceptors to join a visit with a patient together. Unfortunately, roughly two-thirds of our visits were via telephone only. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

The FTC announcement clarified that email addresses constitute personally identifiable health information because email addresses identify visitors as people seeking mental health care. “Personal information” may be “health information” simply due to the nature of the product or service.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Defense is doing with its CMMC program that will require independent cybersecurity assessments of large and small defense contractors that work with sensitive information. Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

The experts said the keys to modern cybersecurity including managing assets, access, networks, infrastructure, and data , along with continuous threat monitoring and tried-and-true training that meets employees where they are. Read more… Turning Health Data Sharing Into Meaningful Outcomes.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Prolog from Dr. Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these tools. Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

As a result, health data is creeping into cloud-based tools where it becomes exposed to very new and very real security threats – some of which healthcare organizations have never had to deal with before. It helps when it’s adapted to the modern workforce by making training more point-in-time and engaging.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 4, 2024

By analyzing longitudinal, de-identified patient-generated health data (i.e. It is anticipated that the collaboration between the FDA and SCDF will lay the groundwork for best practices in the safe and effective use of AI and ML approaches for the development of novel digitally-derived endpoints.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Mark Dill, Chief Information Security Officer at MedAllies Having good policies and procedures in place is important – and having a yearly role-based training plan is even better. Employee training, data backup, and access control are prioritized, along with network segmentation and vendor risk management.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 24, 2024

Here's a breakdown of how they work and their potential: What exactly are Personal health LLMs? LLMs are essentially AI models trained on massive amounts of health data and text. What can Personal health LLMs do? Data Privacy: Security and privacy of personal health data is paramount.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

” With the overall push to leverage AI to drive optimization of operational and clinical workflows and enhance clinical decision-making and care, Philips sees trends in AI that are top of mind for the company: Improved data quality and ingestion of contextualized, longitudinal data. Secure, cloud-based health data infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Optimize Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience. Simply collecting patient data and giving it to providers isn’t enough any more. Read more… Connect Hospitals and Health Systems to Patient Apps and Health Information.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

In a move highlighting the significance of upholding health data privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and MedEvolve, Inc. Insurance companies, HMOs, company health plans, and government programs like Medicare and Medicaid Health Care Clearinghouses.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 21, 2021

As modern technology becomes indispensable in health care, the vulnerabilities to cyber-threats continue to increase, compromising the health information and safety of millions of people. Health care is the only industry globally for which the biggest threat to data breaches comes from internal sources.

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