Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Under the current privacy regime of HIPAA for healthcare, indeed, we are. “HIPAA, as passed in 1996 and amended in 2009 through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, defines privacy through a sectoral lens. legislators can get on the same privacy page.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Under HIPAA compliance, healthcare organizations must ensure that all communications, including fax, are secure and meet stringent standards. By modernizing these systems with cloud-based solutions, healthcare organizations can find a balance between HIPAA compliance and operational efficiency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services has issued new guidance describing how HIPAA covered entities can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. Pino, in a statement. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

James Rice, Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Protegrity Healthcare organizations can ensure secure patient data by enabling advanced data-centric security, including tokenization, masking, and anonymization, to ensure sensitive information remains protected and obfuscated while at rest, in transit, or in use.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we head into 2020, I reached out to a number of people in Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to hear their thoughts on these hot topics: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), Privacy and Security of Health Information, Medical Coding Standards, and Patient Matching.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 16, 2021

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that mandates the creation of national standards to protect delicate and private patient medical history and health information from being disclosed […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom. HIPAA and 24 CFR Part II at the federal level and expanded rule-making at the state level) and the patient’s information sharing consent directives (e.g.,

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

What is HIPAA for Healthcare Workers? Healthcare workers, including behavioral health professionals, often use protected health information to do their jobs. The sensitive information contained in patient files must remain confidential. HIPAA for healthcare workers is the practice of maintaining … Read more.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 21, 2023

The agencies contacted 130 health systems and telehealth providers by mail to emphasize the potential HIPAA risks of using Meta/Facebook pixel and Google Analytics tracking tools that may be "impermissibly disclosing" protected health information.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 24, 2019

If your organization handles protected health information (PHI) or electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), you should be well aware of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act known commonly as HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2020

What has not been covered is faxing from home, especially when it relates to faxing medical records or Protected Health Information (PHI) Utilizing a HIPAA Compliant cloud fax […]. There are thousands of articles on the internet about how to best work remotely from home.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ram Krishnan, CEO at Valant Communicating with patients – in a compliant manner – is essential for behavioral health practices. All practices must comply with HIPAA, as well as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The first step is using a HIPAA-compliant telehealth solution.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a bill passed initially in 1996, consists of a set of rules and regulations that protect the privacy and security of health information and provide individuals with certain rights to their health information.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 24, 2020

Group Therapy and HIPAA Privacy Rule Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, a healthcare provider may use and disclose protected health information (PHI), without individual written authorization, if the use or disclosure is a treatment disclosure. This general rule applies to … Read more.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

HHS' Office of the Inspector General released a report on Monday that badgers the Office for Civil Rights' enforcement of HIPAA.

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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. But, more importantly, know how to implement them in a HIPAA-compliant way to keep patients and their data safe.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2019

Amazon recently announced the availability of a HIPAA-eligible development environment for Alexa-enabled devices. This environment allows select developers to create healthcare “skills” or applications that enable voice-based access to personalized health information. By Don Brown, CEO, LifeOmic.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Signed into law nearly a quarter century ago, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has not aged well in the information technology world. HIPAA itself is largely misunderstood. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard someone tell me about the “Health Information Privacy Act.”

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.” Who’s most-trusted? Seven in ten U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Today, we are going to focus on emerging technologies in regard to health information management. We reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how can health information management professionals leverage emerging technologies, such as AI , to enhance data integrity and streamline processes?

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2024

We can take advantage of that insight because there are already some clear guidelines on how to de-identify Personal Health Information (PHI). The frameworks that keep your information private in an analytical setting already exist. I think a responsible approach for training the Health AI models would follow a similar path.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As this technology grows, so should the knowledge base of clinicians who share protected health information with or about clients and patients via texting with patients. Text messaging is a quick, efficient, and minimalist form of communication that gets to the point but leaves a written record of facts and other helpful information.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The HIPAA outlines the standard security practices that organizations handling protected health information (PHI) need to adhere to. Whether your business is compliant with the HIPAA or not can have a huge impact on how you handle your business.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The data backup plan was established as a mandatory stage of HIPAA compliance to create, implement and maintain a set of rules and procedures for healthcare organizations to follow when managing the backup and restore requirements of electronic protected health information (ePHI). The article What Is Your HIPAA Data Backup Plan?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Its leaders found that the tracking technology used to mine user data had disclosed information to third parties and subcontractors. Cerebral’s investigation concluded that the data might be considered protected health information and that it had failed to make sure that these third parties met HIPAA requirements for protecting PHI.

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TheraNest

MARCH 18, 2020

Although the OCR has temporarily lifted regulations regarding HIPAA-compliance and telehealth platforms, it is still best practice to use a HIPAA secure telehealth platform to deliver mental health care to your clients. 6 Reasons To Use A HIPAA-Compliant Telehealth Platform. Protecting Client Privacy.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 12, 2019

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 70 percent of organizations are not HIPAA Compliant. The article HIPAA Audit Provides Lessons On Risk and Implementation appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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VSee

MARCH 22, 2019

Special thanks today for our guest post on HIPAA compliance by Alex Mitchell — cybersecurity enthusiast, WordPress guru, and data-safety tools tester with over 10 years experience. Who Must Comply With HIPAA If you’re not familiar with HIPAA it stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 13, 2023

Like many technology companies and healthcare providers , between October 2019 to January 2023 Cerebral used pixel tracking technologies, according to the company's Notice of HIPAA Privacy Breach. Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission fined online therapy company BetterHelp, owned by Teladoc Health, $7.8

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The legislation, which is supported by several industry representatives including athenahealth, Epic, IBM and Teladoc Health, would establish a commission tasked with providing recommendations to Congress about updates to health information privacy laws. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. And the U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 7, 2018

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is US legislation that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. The article What Are HIPAA Compliant Storage Requirements?

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2019

HIPAA Data Storage Requirements and HIPAA Compliance The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) set forth industry standards for the proper handling of protected health information (PHI). The post HIPAA Data appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2025

Read more… The Limits of HIPAA Auditing – and What Needs to Change. OCR typically only assesses eight out of 180 HIPAA provisions during audits , noted Jay Trinckes at Thoropass. Every healthcare stakeholder needs to adopt HIPAA-compliant risk analyses and NIST cybersecurity frameworks , said Andrew Mahler at Clearwater.

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