Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Data breaches or mishandling can also put a practice at serious risk of legal and financial trouble. That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Keeping PHI secure is the main goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

While that may not affect an individual patient whose data is included in the data set, it affects patient outcomes overall because it allows us to analyze the data and provide early interventions and programs. Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Keeping patient data safe and private is our top priority.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2024

Products HubSpot Smart CRM now lets customers store HIPAA-protected and medical data. Lyric launched 42 , a SaaS platform for payment integrity and accuracy tools. Apricot Technologies launched its AI-assisted home health care documentation technology.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. WHY IT MATTERS. And the U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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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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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Wearables and other remote patient monitoring tools have expanded patient care beyond the walls of brick-and-mortar clinics. Pritts noted that HIPAA is quite broad – but it doesn't apply to the entirety of health IoT. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

adults in October 2024 to gauge peoples’ views on digital health tools, buying trends, and trust. Start with the rate of 1 in 4 Americans’ experience having a personal medical device alerting them to a pending health issue. For the study, Propel Software engaged Talker Research to conduct a survey among 2,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

Jane Doe, a patient at UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company in relation to its health data privacy practices. More About Facebook’s Meta Lawsuit & Data Privacy in Healthcare. HIPAA Compliant Cybersecurity: Practical Implementation Tips.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

The American College of Physicians, the American Telemedicine Association and the Organization for the Review of Care and Health Applications announced a new framework this week aimed at helping healthcare professionals and patients make informed decisions about digital health tools. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Advance academic medicine.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’ physician and hospital reviews, tracking activity, donning wearable tech, and engaging in live telehealth consultations with providers, as the first chart shows.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The current state of health data interoperability. Making health data not just readable, but useful. The relationship between security and HIPAA-compliance. Cerner expands tools available for rural hospital clinical trials. What to do when patients lack necessary connectivity infrastructure?

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Differential privacy protects data by answering queries with strategically garbled results. Differential privacy-based solutions require a high degree of expertise to make these systems compliant with regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, and data quality can vary dramatically based on how the system is tuned.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

AI helps geographically dispersed medical teams (and personnel working in the same building or campus) access patient medical data. When used correctly — with the proper safety precautions in place — AI becomes more than a tool with its ability to augment and support human judgment to enhance the patient experience within healthcare.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When it comes to healthcare and patient monitoring, there are more tools available, and they have gotten a lot easier to use. In this article, we will provide some tips for choosing the right RPM tool for your clinic or hospital. The type of data you need to monitor. What is Remote Patient Monitoring Software? How Does it Work?

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Especially in healthcare applications, developers and deployers of AI tools must carefully balance the benefits of AI systems with the need for privacy-focused design. The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and Duke AI Health held an event focused on this topic and several others in the intersection of health and AI.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. On Monday 9th March 2020, at the start of this week, the U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

Without insight into the inner workings of their own flow of information, most healthcare organizations can’t leverage their data to drive better patient care or more informed business decisions. Data lineage tools address this challenge, highlighting data dependencies and revealing data’s journey through complex systems and transformations.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Remote health monitoring solutions such as remote patient monitoring (RPM), has revolutionized how physicians manage and treat patients, particularly those with chronic conditions. Healthcare providers can now use advanced medical devices to track important health data. These conditions often need regular checks of health data.

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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2024

By using connected medical devices, healthcare providers can track patients' conditions in real time, collecting vital health data continuously or at scheduled intervals without the need for in-person visits. As a result, more than 4,000 firefighters have now undergone esophageal precancer testing using telehealth protocols.

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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 19, 2024

Hypertension , commonly known as high blood pressure, is a prevalent condition that can lead to severe health complications if not adequately managed. Remote Monitoring for Hypertension Remote monitoring involves the use of digital technologies to monitor patients’ health metrics outside traditional clinical settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Financial Costs: The costs associated with redundant data processes and inefficiencies further strain the financial resources of healthcare institutions, already burdened by the need to provide cost-effective care. Security Threats: Health data is a prime target for cyberattacks due to its sensitivity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Read more… How Will Data Utilities Evolve ? Experts agreed that health data utilities are in their early stages but will start to see additional value when they engage with government agencies in their communities and enable data sharing across state lines.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 3, 2024

Why Digital Fire Drills are Crucial for HealthTech Compliance: Healthtech companies operate under stringent regulations like HIPAA and GDPR. Data Protection: Given the sensitive nature of health data, robust data protection measures are paramount. Drills can identify vulnerabilities and strengthen defences.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 1, 2024

RPM utilizes a variety of digital tools to collect health data remotely. These tools can include: Wireless weight scales: Tracks weight fluctuations, which can signal fluid buildup, a common concern in CHF. Implement robust cybersecurity measures with encryption and secure data storage protocols.

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