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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

I leave you with one proviso which could be a barrier to patients engaging with digitized health information: in the wake of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, there is a wake-up call for consumers to become more mindful about the security of their personal data online.

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7 Steps For Providers To Comply with HIPAA Regulations

VSee

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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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

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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How to Stay HIPAA Compliant in the World of Social Media

TheraNest

How to Stay HIPAA Compliant in the World of Social Media. While health companies need to take great pains to make sure they are in HIPAA compliance, which includes all the cyber and physical security mandates, one thing commonly overlooked is social media security. Common HIPAA violations pertaining to social media.

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The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There are several ways in which regulatory relaxations have allowed telemedicine to soar during the pandemic: HIPAA flexibility, telemedicine waivers through CMS, cost-sharing, and billing and reimbursement changes. One of the changes during the pandemic was around the type of communication apps allowed to conduct visits.

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Healthcare Information In-Security Is the New Normal

Health Populi

Developing a culture of cyber- and health privacy-awareness must be a priority for health providers, who as they look to patients for greater health engagement, must bake their trust into health information systems. Consider this a crucial node in patient and clinician experience. .

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Facebook (Meta) Sued Over Data Privacy Practices in Healthcare With Meta Pixel

Telebehavioral Health Institute

This allegedly allowed Facebook to receive Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients, including doctors’ names and medical conditions. All of this information could be linked to the user’s unique IP address. Meta did not enter into HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with the organizations in question.

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