Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2020

There are thousands of articles on the internet about how to best work remotely from home. 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 […].

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KevinMD

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Nearly all hospitals and 80 percent of medical practices use electronic health records (EHRs), presumably to help improve access to health information and increase productivity. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Find out how. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

A risk analysis must include all systems, not only the systems that process health information, because other systems could be compromised to allow access to those containing health information. He is the best-selling author of How to Avoid HIPAA Headaches. www.semelconsulting.com

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 10, 2021

In the USA and elsewhere, there are Document Sharing based Health Information Exchanges. IHE has provided an Implementation Guide that takes the IPS content and explains how to communicate it within the Document Sharing infrastructures. These exchanges have been built up over the past ten or so years. So IPS over XCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To avoid negatively impacting biomedical research, the Privacy Rule carved out exceptions for the use of protected health information (PHI) in research , as well as the use of limited data sets , and determined that de-identified data was not considered PHI.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One of the most significant applications of healthcare information technology is the exchange of health information among disparate clinical information systems and otherwise unaffiliated care providers. The Health Information Exchange model presented is an Infrastructure, it is not constraining the content.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Health Information Technology Advisor position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Bachelor degree in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Computer Science, Computer Programming, or similar degree. Familiarity with health information systems.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

practicing physicians to carry the health data privacy and security burden? “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. But are we asking too much of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Chief Health Information Officer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

As AI is constantly improving, a practitioner must disclose the ever-evolving nature of the technology being used, explain how the AI system works and share the level at which the technology was relied upon when determining courses of treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Key HIPAA rules include the Privacy Rule to protect personal health information, the Security Rule for electronic data, and the Breach Notification Rule, which mandates notifying individuals about breaches.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022.

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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. This past September, the U.S. And the U.S. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Health Care ” by David Cutler for the Hamilton Project at Brookings outlines a detailed perspective on how to understand and alleviate the weight of unnecessary healthcare spending. Data interoperability, the ability to make health information flow seamlessly among providers, is the final part of Cutler’s proposal.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A new study from Weber Shandwick and KRC asked a question that speaks to consumers’ trust and willingness to engage with different sources of health information. Some people will want or need a quick session on how to use a mobile app. Now, his forecast is mainstream.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The graphic is based on work done by Juhan Sonin of GoInvo , a group that does brilliant work on health data design that’s vigilantly people-focused. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2025

Scott Turkow and Alden Mitchell at Medallion talked to Brittany Quemby about how to save time during the credentialing and follow-up process with automation for data intake and administrative processes. Read more… How to Keep Virtual Appointments Secure. Read more… All You Need for Managing Provider Privileges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past six months, as hospitals and health systems have pursued telemedicine and remote patient monitoring programs in earnest – whether launching new one or expanding existing ones – they've all had some learning curves and growing pains to manage. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

The top-line findings alone provide an important baseline profile of TYAs’ use of the internet for health never before described. Nearly 9 in 10 young adults have gone online to seek health information. Two-thirds have used a mobile app related to health. ” Several quotes jumped off the report page to me.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They noted that the disability community is disproportionately less likely to have broadband and hardware access, and that some patients may need assistance learning how to use new forms of technology. Implementation must also be considered, wrote the authors. ON THE RECORD.

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Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

TEFCA outlines a common set of principles, terms, and conditions to enable the nationwide exchange of health information across disparate health information networks (HINs). We applaud the hard work that the ONC, CMS, The Sequoia Project, and the Qualified Health Information Exchanges (QHINs) have done to bring it live.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have covered the vision of Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) concept, and outline how a Security Labeling Service (SLS) would enable this grandiose vision of DS4P. However, there are stepping stones: The following is a slightly update on an article I wrote in July 2015 on how to set the confidentialityCode. for "_confidentiality".

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E-CareManagement

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Our focus has been to figure out how to accommodate the 5% of patients that get their peace of mind knowing that they have absolute control of every piece of their data. The post Health Data Privacy Shouldn’t Mean “Stuff your health information in your mattress” [Quote] appeared first on e-CareManagement blog.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most use of FHIR today is as an API to an organizations health information (EHR). However what is being asked latey is how does one scale FHIR to a nation. I have plenty of articles on how a Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) could be built with the IHE XD* family of profiles.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Trevor Dearing, Director of Critical Infrastructure Solutions at Illumio We’re not even halfway through 2024, and the healthcare industry has already suffered over 250 breaches that exposed the sensitive health information of over 32 million individuals.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

First up was a look at how AI, NLP, LLMs, and automation improve health information management. The Healthcare IT Today community also weighed in how to get this done. We posed many questions to the Healthcare IT Today experts recently. Read more… Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 28, 2025

It will also provide patients with information about their health and how to stay well. Source: [link] NHS Scotland's new health and social care app is designed to significantly enhance patient self-management. Health Information: The app will provide health information and resources.

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HealthStream

APRIL 22, 2020

Health IT Security just released the following five ways that healthcare organizations can safeguard protected health information (PHI) by instituting up-to-date cybersecurity measures.

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TheraNest

JULY 23, 2019

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. Learn more about Atlantic.net at the bottom of this post.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

In fact, a recent JAMA Health Forum report indicates that from 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector more than doubled. Broader security training is also necessary, such as how to lock workstations and the importance of protecting both personal and work devices while traveling or in public areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

Federal guidelines like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) outline the responsibility of healthcare providers when it comes to creating, analyzing, and distributing Protected Health Information (PHI). Staff may be asked to click on a link or download an email attachment containing malicious software.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Teladoc Health and Ovation Medical are among the organizations that will utilize these new capabilities. Meditech will use Google Health's technologies to build a longitudinal health data output that combines data from multiple sources using standard FHIR format. Virtual care. Map route optimization.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange. Details on who IHE is and how to engage are available on their web site.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

At Columbia, South Carolina-based Prisma Health, "we’re on a journey pursuing aspects of digital health," said Dr. Mark Wess, the health system's vice president and chief health information executive. "The asynchronous virtual visit for primary care is one of those."

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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