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

JUNE 25, 2020

Recent allowances made by the HHS Office for Civil rights, which said it won't impose penalties on providers who use non-HIPAA-compliant consumer platforms such as FaceTime, Facebook Messenger or Skype, were game-changers for many small practices and outpatient providers, enabling them to connect with patients quickly and easily.

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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. So, HIPAA may not apply. What do I mean? About Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D. Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The modern healthcare IT team must possess an array of emerging skills that allow practices to share data while ensuring that no one but the intended targets gain access to it. Let’s explore the evolution of data protection in the healthcare industry and how the best teams protect it.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Following the release of a report by STAT and The Markup, which found 49 of 50 telehealth startups may fall short of legal requirements for HIPAA compliance, a bipartisan group of US senators has fiercely criticized several prominent telehealth startups for sharing patient data with Facebook, Google, and other major advertising platforms.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jaimes Blunt, EVP of Infrastructure at emtelligent Healthcare data volumes continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, and most of healthcares critical data remains buried in unstructured text. Finally, AI-powered cybersecurity solutions safeguard sensitive patient health information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Principles Concerning Privacy According to Zebley, the privacy team believes that the federal government must update HIPAA, which covers organizations narrowly associated with traditional medical treatment, and regulated the many organizations and digital apps that collect personal health data. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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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. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 28, 2024

They serve as intermediaries, facilitating the secure and efficient exchange of health data between different systems and organisations. This is particularly crucial in the context of healthcare AI, where large datasets are required to train and validate machine learning models.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 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. What Are the Differences between HIPAA Covered Entities and HIPAA Business Associates? Covered entities include: Health Care Providers.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Bias and Fairness: AI models can inherit biases present in the data they are trained on. Data Privacy and Security Concerns: Patient Data: Healthcare data is highly sensitive and requires stringent protection. This can lead to discriminatory outcomes, particularly for marginalised populations.

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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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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. Algorithmic biases occur when data scientists use incomplete data lacking full representation of a specific patient population.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They won’t have the bandwidth to review every data element and they don’t need somebody sitting in front of a computer looking at a bunch of normal numbers. What they need is somebody trained to spot deviations and respond to them to ensure appropriate intervention.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

By creating a security awareness program, IT administrators can prioritize continued education and training on the importance of information security and handling patient data. Security awareness should be implemented as part of an organization’s onboarding and annual training program.

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Murphy’s background in medicine and his position on the House Ways and Means Committee, which handles both health and technology issues, makes him uniquely positioned to understand the existing protections for sensitive health data and the ways those protections can be improved.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2024

Hadi Chaudhry at CareCloud talked to John about the value of training accurate AI models for clinical and financial uses, especially for often-overlooked ambulatory practices. Read more… Bringing Contextualized Health Data into Diagnosis and Treatment. Read more… Modern Approaches to Master Data Management.

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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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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. Building LLMs for healthcare means training models well and providing precise recommendations while respecting privacy and regulatory requirements.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.

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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 Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Ease of Use of a Patient Portal Unlike clinicians, patients do not expect there to be any onboarding or training associated with using the portal. Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, the complaint alleged that BetterHelp failed to have written policies and procedures for protecting the privacy of health information. And it failed to properly train and supervise employees that handled that health information. Among them was a depiction of the medical caduceus and the term “HIPAA.”

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 13, 2022

Digitalized healthcare systems and virtual care models are built on the backbone of data analytics, cloud computing, and big data. Value is added to the patients’ care experience through the use of Connected Health Technology, telemedicine, and other advancements in healthcare.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 16, 2024

Staff should be trained on how to set up devices, interpret data, and respond to alerts. Regular training sessions can help keep everyone updated on the latest protocols and technologies. Ensure Data Accuracy and Security Accurate data collection and secure data transmission are paramount.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Clinicians expose themselves to HIPAA violations if they digitally receive PHI data in any form, including having a simple picture of that data sent to them electronically. To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR. What is Telehealth? Register.

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