Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The company offers tools to payers and providers to share patient health information and will use the funds to scale its operations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2022

An interim national health plan in New Zealand underscores the contribution of digital tools in allowing the health system to provide more care in homes and communities. Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand and Te Aka Whai Ora – M?ori

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO of Well Health, told Healthcare IT News that he believes the best strategy is to "meet patients where they are." " "I don't think healthcare really understands what true patient engagement is," said de Zwirek, whose company offers patient communication tools.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2023

The report also details critical information on how to successfully leverage HIN data when building digital healthcare tools and operating healthcare organizations or digital platforms. We’re about to enter a game-changing era in healthcare as Health Information Network access expands.” The paper, 2023: State of U.S.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Both companies have been leveraging on digital platforms to broaden the reach and access to health information tools.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The title of the report, “Health on Demand,” speaks to the first bar chart. Overall, company leadership is more bullish on digital health tools compared with workers who index relatively lower than management — by just a bit. Four in ten people would also trade health information to access more convenient care.

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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. TEFCA like health information networks (HINs) bring non-HIPAA entities (no direct/indirect healthcare service operations) but at a large scale and with broader coverage.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

. “It is ironic,” they write, “that although patients (and their physicians) still have difficulty obtaining complete medical record information in a timely fashion, the HIPAA Privacy Rule permits massive troves of patients digital health data to traverse the medical-industrial complex unmonitored and unregulated.”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Health Commons Project , a leading nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare access and quality through technology and innovation, today announced it has completed the acquisition of OneHealthPort , Washington State’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and prominent provider of health data solutions.

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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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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. The problem is that none of these digital tools were designed specifically to advance the practice of good medicine.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2024

So how do I stay on top of an ever-changing ecosystem of tools and technology? At Amedisys we leverage the full E5 suite of security tools from Microsoft. In one of his episodes, he reminds us that we are still in the literal infancy of the internet. Talk about a platform that changes rapidly. Stay tuned!

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

“Cycle 3 isn’t just a change in health care,” Deloitte explains in the report. We have to do the best we can with the tools and abilities we have.” “It’s a change in how we live.” However few would argue that this is a good reason to be malevolent, ignorant or stupid.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2025

First, ensure that all protected health information (PHI) is encrypted both at rest and in transit. To further strengthen security, hospitals should adopt advanced tools that focus on tracking and protecting the data itself.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2025

The most commonly-used LLMs were ChatGPT by far the #1 “brand” of consumer-facing AI tools, followed by Google’s Gemini (with 50% of U.S. adults have used), Microsoft’s Copilot (39%), Meta’s LLaMa (20%), 12% using xAI’s Grok, and 9%, Anthropic’s Claude.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

.” This last chart comes from Sanjula’s Compass publication arraying patient-consumers’ views on health care affordability (costs) by insurance status, race/ethnicity, and income, along with Americans’ trust in health information by source. The latter is a cost-increasing function, Sanjula and I agree.

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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. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As the healthcare industry embraces technology, protecting sensitive health information has become paramount. The Importance of Protecting Sensitive Health Information In the healthcare sector, patient data is incredibly valuable, containing personal details, medical histories, and treatment records.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some of the key behaviors Deloitte gauged to measure health care consumerism were, Increasing use of technology and willingness to share personal health information. Use of tools for prescription drugs and self-care. Interest in and use of virtual care/telehealth. Levels of self-efficacy and prevention.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The top-demanded health consumer digital health applications included, The ability to find doctors and make appointments online, for 51% of people. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%. Finally, 33% of Americans are comfortable (net) sharing their health information with tech companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2025

AI will transform the healthcare landscape, helping us address health disparities and bridge gaps in access to crucial, life-saving solutions. Dr. Scott Schell, Chief Medical Officer at Cognizant With most patients having access to cell phones, they can receive and engage with healthcare tools and solutions that are powered by AI.

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

That’s one barrier overcome to get smartphone health apps into the hands of people dealing with the many tasks involved with managing chronic disease. It’s not the only barrier, and not a panacea; but it’s an important one in terms of a potential on-ramp to self-health tools. Now, his forecast is mainstream.

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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. It’s about giving patients the tools and confidence to fully participate in their care alongside providers.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

I anticipated we’d see a lot of tools and techs to support patients seeking support for accessing and paying for more affordable care. 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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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Exec Summary: Patient portals have evolved significantly over the past decade, transforming from simple information repositories to powerful tools that empower patients to actively participate in their healthcare journey. Collaborative decision-making tools to involve patients in treatment plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

.” Ferrum is a vendor-neutral, privately deployed platform that allows clinicians to validate the performance of AI on local datasets and deploy AI into their existing workflows, all without protected health information (PHI) leaving the health system firewall.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By requiring multiple forms of verification before granting system access, health systems help ensure that only authorized individuals can see protected health information. Data Encryption Encrypting data both in transit and at rest helps safeguard patient information even if hackers gain access to networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2025

The Difficulty in Securing Health Data There are several reasons that healthcare organizations have found it particularly difficult to maintain security, despite the billions spent on cybersecurity. First, protected health information (PHI) is a valuable target for cybercriminals, more so than other types of data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2025

IPeoples solutions ensure healthcare providers maintain uninterrupted access to critical patient data, enabling staff to administer high-quality, informed, and safe care even when systems are offline.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

At the same time, 48% percent of respondents said they'd be unlikely to use virtual care again if their own protected health information was compromised due to a telemedicine-related breach – women (54%) more so than men (41%). THE LARGER TREND. Investment, education and best practices will be key.

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