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Key Challenges in Maintaining Compliance with Regulatory Standards in the Context of Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Currently, one such tricky area is health information management. To learn more about this, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them what are the key challenges in maintaining compliance with regulatory standards, such as HIPAA , in the context of health information management?

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security? Individuals have a fundamental right to dictate who and when their health information is leveraged. Working to keep that information private in the new paradigm of Teams Meetings, PowerBI reports, and decentralized data is a heavy burden for modern CISOs.

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Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Patient Data while Managing Large Volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

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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Digital front doors' advantages when meeting population health needs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

These initiatives are often outside the realm of direct care and fall into the sphere of social determinants of health. Once a population health initiative is defined, the challenge becomes identifying the right individuals for outreach and personalizing the approach to meet unique patient needs.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

There are misunderstandings about HIPAA compliance leaving organizations vulnerable by not sufficiently addressing required safeguards for protecting health information issues. Take this 16-question survey to find out if your organization is meeting critical HIPAA compliance requirements.

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Surescripts Announces Strategic Partnership with TPG to Enhance Patient Care and Meet Evolving Healthcare Needs Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Surescripts , the nation’s leading health information network, today announced that TPG , a global alternative asset management firm will join the Surescripts ownership group as a majority investor. TPG is investing in Surescripts through TPG Capital, the firm’s U.S. and European private equity platform.

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Modernizing Healthcare Communications with Cloud Fax

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Under HIPAA compliance, healthcare organizations must ensure that all communications, including fax, are secure and meet stringent standards. HIPAA Compliance Meets Cloud Fax While the need for change seems clear, many healthcare organizations have an if it aint broke, dont fix it mentality regarding compliance.

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A Look at Changes in the NEW HIPAA Security Rule

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

Federal Register include strict cybersecurity requirements that leave little wiggle room for healthcare providers, health plans, and their business associates to avoid implementing strong cybersecurity practices, including validation that their business partners also meet their HIPAA requirements.

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Listen Up, Healthcare: Hear The Patient’s Voice!

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2019

One patient could talk with another over their proverbial neighborhood fence, a concerned parent at the PTA meeting with others dealing with a children’s health issue, or a recovering alcoholic testifying in person at an AA session. American Heart Association, Susan G.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

And most patients would also want access to information on their mental, behavioral, and substance use history. A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data. Patients in the U.S.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records. I want that word roadmap to be a trigger word, Harm asserted.

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The Path to Patient Empowerment: Hospitals are granting patients access to their health information, but is that enough?

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. The referring physician reviews the report and arranges a time to meet with their patient to discuss the results.

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QHIN Reactions at the ONC Annual Meeting

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We previously shared ONC’s big QHIN announcement which shared the names of five officially designated QHINs as part of TEFCA: eHealth Exchange Epic Nexus Health Gorilla KONZA MedAllies No doubt, the timing of this announcement was planned to coincide with the ONC Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Senators intro bipartisan effort toward modernizing health privacy laws

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. WHY IT MATTERS. This past September, the U.S. And the U.S.

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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health

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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Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health. Furthermore, data can be scraped for all kinds of purposes, outside of the context of health care in which patients and health consumers originally share their data.

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BluByrd and DrChrono Deliver Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Dr. Davis needed to find an EHR platform that could meet the practices needs. They leaned in and invested thousands of hours to customize the system to meet the unique needs of a surgery center. Davis realized that the core problem was a communication breakdown between databases: It had nothing to do with the people.

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ATA partners with ORCHA to develop approved app library

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

market and will add apps meeting that criteria to the ATA approved library. Hundreds of thousands of mobile apps, ostensibly aimed at treating a wide variety of health conditions, are available in stores. "There are many safe and effective health apps built by U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Bonus Features – July 28, 2024 – 69% of patients will switch providers if communication doesn’t meet expectations, business associates account for 39% of data breaches, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Tellingly, 29% of clinicians are likely to leave the profession in the next year due to burnout.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

More would like to use tech to access and transmit personal health information to their doctors, to monitor health issues, along with health and fitness improvement goals. The gap between health consumers and clinicians remains, as Deloitte found earlier this year, covered here in Health Populi.

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HHS puts out new notice on audio-only telehealth and HIPAA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

The new guidance is meant to clarify how covered entities can provide audio-only virtual care in compliance with HIPAA and improve public confidence that covered entities are protecting the privacy and security of their health information. THE LARGER TREND. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

Patients’ willingness to share their personal health information is eroding, varying by age group and race/ethnicity along with the kind of organizations folks would share with. The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind.

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Verisma and ScanSTAT Announce Merger, Providing the Strength and Know-How that HIM Departments Need for the Path Ahead

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

About Verisma With Verisma® services and technology, health information managers elevate their organization’s method of securely disclosing confidential information to patients, attorneys, and other third parties. ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The ethos of the name and the intent of this law is a perfect vision for considering what we hear and learn this week coming out of the 2023 HIMSS Annual Conference as the meeting kicks off today. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.” First, the law.

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Cigna expands access to covered telehealth services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In addition, MDLIVE physicians will have access to patients' health information, aimed at providing a more connected, coordinated experience. The companies cite the success of a virtual wellness screening program launched last year, through which they say two-thirds of patients identified a health condition.

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Weekly Roundup – December 21, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

First up was a look at how AI, NLP, LLMs, and automation improve health information management. Read more… Key Takeaways From The Sequoia Project and Carequality Annual Meeting. That said, there wasn’t much news on the information blocking rule, HTI-2.

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From Dr. Fauci to Peloton, Healthcare and Wellness Baked Into Ad Age’s Top 20 Brands for 2020

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

.; Headspace, the fast-growing mobile health app focused on mental health, which I’ve described as the pandemic that will last long after “the” pandemic; and, Peloton, the connected fitness cycle. By April 8, 2020, Dr. Fauci was the most trusted source of coronavirus information among U.S. In the U.S.,

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience. Oftentimes, providers are looking for patient health information from disparate systems and do not have a complete picture of the patients' journey.

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M&A notebook: Providers and platforms make big moves

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

“Increasingly, scale and sophistication are essential to ensure we evolve with the market and create more efficient ways to protect our clients and their patients, " he added, calling ScanSTAT's experience and white-glove health information management services a natural complement. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare Data and Analytics – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

This is particularly important to them when it comes to sensitive data, such as reproductive health data, substance use disorder data, and other data that has special privacy concerns. Patients need assurances that their health information is safeguarded, and they want a voice in deciding how and with whom that information is shared.

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Pushing Forward Healthcare Interoperability Efforts by The Sequoia Project in 2025

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Beyond TEFCA: Knocking Down Remaining Barriers To Exchange Beyond their TEFCA leadership, The Sequoia Project is uniquely positioned to tackle the remaining challenges to seamless and secure health information sharing.

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Google announces funding for eight AI-based projects in the digital health ecosystem

Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is a rapidly growing sector, characterized by innovations that meet the needs of a new generation of patients. In today’s healthcare environment, AI (artificial intelligence) is becoming an increasingly established reality.

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How COVID-19 forced some hospitals back to basics

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

For many, that meant taking a back-to-basics approach, in terms of meeting immediate demands. Hospitals had to pivot with only a few days' notice to respond to short-term patient needs, rather than focusing on long-term goals. In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session scheduled to air on Monday, Aug.

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Critical Condition: The Increasing Frequency of Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare

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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Making Health Care Better, from the N of 1 to the Public’s Health – Trend-Weaving Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Health and our health information are deeply personal. Changing health care and inspiring positive health behaviors is hard to do. This post is my synthesis of the summary I delivered live at the end of the conference, which one of the attendees described as “poetry slam-meets-healthcare.”.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

New York City's NYU Langone Health had been investing in telemedicine for several years before the COVID-19 pandemic and had always been keenly aware of the important role technology would play in the future of healthcare. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Trinity Health's RPM program drops 30-day readmissions rate from 16% to 6%

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Trinity Health would use RPM in two ways: RPM for Trinity Health at Home, called Home Care Connect, focused on skilled home care patients; and RPM for at-risk patients following a home-care episode of care, or who do not meet skilled home care eligibility, with support of Trinity Health's Virtual Care Center.

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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

State laws and policies should also define consumer health data with the uniform language defined as protected health information under HIPAA, the group said in its announcement this week. The DEA may be putting a telehealth controlled substance registry on the table in holding listening sessions in September.

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QHINs Will Help Shine a Light on Data Quality

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been a lot of activity and news coverage of Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, recently. The Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, are the actual networks that are Qualified to operate under the rules of TEFCA and move health information between exchange participants.

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Virtual Care service is currently being provided through WACHS's command centre, outpatient services, metropolitan health services that offer remote patient access, and business meeting rooms. The task force, which is composed of senior leaders and subject matter experts, recently met for its first meeting.

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Availity to Acquire Utilization Management Solution and Business Unit from Olive

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Availity , one of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks, announced a definitive agreement to acquire the utilization management solution and business unit from healthcare automation company Olive AI, Inc. Visit Availity at Booth 8336 or Meeting Place MP2284.

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

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