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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2020

"BioTelemetry’s leadership in the large and fast growing ambulatory cardiac diagnostics and monitoring market complements our leading position in the hospital. BioTelemetry's technology was also used in a New England Journal of Medicine study about the efficacy of smartwatches for identifying atrial fibrillation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Everyone in healthcare likely knows the term PHI (Protected Health Information). Understanding what is considered PHI has been extremely important to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2020

Health information management has seen many new processes quickly evolve during the COVID-19 pandemic. The following is a guest article by Diana Warner, MS, RHIA, CHPS, CPHI, FAHIMA, Director, Client Relations and Account Management at MRO.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

DCH said it does not know if the information was used or further disclosed and mailed letters to patients informing them of the breach and offering identity theft/credit monitoring services to those whose health plan ID numbers may have been involved. HIPAA includes a requirement for MINIMUM NECESSARY ACCESS.

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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?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

million to the HHS Office for Civil Rights to settle claims that it violated the HIPAA Breach Notification and Privacy rules. In yet another sign that the agency is taking a tougher enforcement stance, Sentara Hospitals has agreed to pay $2.2 Sentara Hospitals, a 12-hospital acute care chain, is part of Norfolk, Va.-based

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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. There are many different perspectives on digital tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Navigating HIPAA Compliance: A Foundation for Protecting Patient Data For healthcare organizations, staying compliant with HIPAA is essential to safeguard patient data. And don’t forget to regularly review and update access permissions as roles and responsibilities change.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I lead a weekly meeting with the vendor and our IT leadership to review new specifications, review use data and assess the need for further device modifications – constantly trying to make these devices more user-friendly, using patient and provider feedback.” “We do not allow integration with other systems at this point.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In addition to the challenges that all organizations face like multiple devices, applications, and operating systems being used for day-to-day operations, they also store massive amounts of sensitive protected health information (PHI).

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Regulatory Compliance: Adhering to complex regulatory standards, such as HIPAA and GDPR, can be burdensome and costly. Patient Adoption: Patients may be hesitant to adopt new technologies, especially if they involve sharing personal health information or using AI-powered tools. Regularly assess and update security protocols.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Google met HIPAA requirements when it pulled together millions of patient records when working with the Ascension health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

The Sequoia Project released several resources to help organizations comply with the information blocking requirements of the 21st Century CURES Act. PointClickCare is partnering with the Michigan Health Information Network to help post-acute providers and case managers exchange data with MiHIN.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 6, 2016

HHS has produced an 8 page fact-sheet on Ransomeware and HIPAA that is fantastic. Just 8 pages, packed with very readable, reasonable, reasoned, and backed by long standing Security and Privacy HIPAA Regulation. It is so good that I have very little to say as any emphasis I would add is already in the 8 pages.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability. One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging. He shares why they chose SES and some of the business impacts resulting from the change.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as well as state privacy regulations and laws, also contribute to healthcare data governance, with one of HIPAA’s provisions guaranteeing the privacy and security of everyone’s health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted. With more funding acquired for the LTPAC space and investment in health information technology, care delivery will be secure.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to the FTC, GoodRx has been funneling personal health information from these consumers to advertising companies and platforms such as Facebook, Google and Criteo, along with other third parties such as Branch and Twilio. More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since 2017.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Charles Cinert, Chief Services Officer & General Manager at ClearDATA Wearables and IoT devices are undeniably a marvel of modern healthcare technology, continually evolving and offering unprecedented convenience and health monitoring capabilities that can improve patient health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI). If a file is deemed malicious, this solution takes action to prevent the code from executing, thus protecting the network and digital assets.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Everyone has heard of HIPAA , which was enacted to protect patients’ health information from disclosure without their consent or knowledge. The less-talked-about Sentinel Initiative was created to monitor the safety of medical products via direct access to patients’ electronic health records.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

Exec Summary: AWS HealthScribe is a HIPAA-eligible machine learning (ML) service that leverages speech recognition and generative AI to automate the creation of clinical documentation. HIPAA compliance: Ensures the security and privacy of patient data. Enhanced accuracy: Provides accurate and comprehensive clinical notes.

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MAY 1, 2021

Health information is incredibly complex. Important parts of a patient’s history are often scattered across multiple systems, and gaps in information can lead to medical errors or even delays in treatment. Intro to Care Studio. Care Studio Pilots with Healthcare Providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

Established interoperability standards will facilitate health information and data sharing across outsourced platforms. Utilizing New Storage Possibilities From the start, data collection systems need to be scalable and operational with different IT systems and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2024

As protected health information (PHI) and other types of patient data have been digitized and so frequently accessed, shared, and copied across multiple systems, the risk of interception or unauthorized access is heightened. This ensures each user has the appropriate access permissions to minimize unauthorized data exposure.

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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

MARCH 19, 2024

These formats include Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which provides a common language for laboratory tests and clinical measures.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats. The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Data service firm LogicStream Health is collaborating with FDB , integrating the FDB MedKnowledge database into its Drug Supply App. HIE entity Santa Cruz Health Information Organization is collaborating with the Santa Cruz 2-1-1 Program to share information related to housing, transportation, and food services.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

As healthcare systems and providers modernize (or build) their technology stacks, it will be more important than ever to prioritize privacy and to understand new regulations at the state level, from HIPAA, and from the FTC. Lastly, organizations should continue focusing on the Price Transparency Rule.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

On the other hand, these vendors have shown themselves to be highly vulnerable to attack, with ransomware and other breaches drastically impacting the ability of some health organizations to function effectively. The problem is worse than you might realize. This is why VRM is so important.

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