Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Although the healthcare industry has been slower to move to the cloud due to the sensitive nature of its data, adoption has been on the rise in recent years (in part spurred by the pandemic), and today 47 percent of health organizations store protected health information (PHI) in the cloud , which increases their level of risk.

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 2, 2019

The article AHIMA and AHCA Partner To Train Skilled Nursing Facilities In Coding Ahead of Upcoming Reimbursement Overhaul appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Beginning Oct. 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare […].

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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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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. A typical radiology report contains a lot of medical jargon and data that can be misinterpreted easily by those without medical training.

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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. Additionally, we take immense pride in our role to train the upcoming generation of healthcare professionals. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

We who work in healthcare must pose the questions: going forward, how trusting will patients, consumers and caregivers be sharing their personal health information (PHI)? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 10, 2023

Health institutions will be able to partner on Lavita platform to train and fine-tune their own large language models (LLMs) for their domain-specific use cases such as medical imaging and clinical records. About Lavita Lavita is the first patient-driven platform for secure sharing of health data.

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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. They are licensed, trained, and tested for service. Now, his forecast is mainstream.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The following is a guest article by Andrea Hopkins , Chief Information Security Officer at Juno Health Think about whats in your own health records for a moment: your name, address, Social Security number, insurance informationnot to mention diagnoses. Training Help staff learn by doing.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

Suddenly, a user with minimal computer literacy and no programming or data science training whatsoever could ask an AI-based application to create a response to a question in simple everyday language, regardless of complexity of the underlying subject matter. The release of GPT3 in late 2022 changed all of that.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 9, 2023

Additionally, AWS HealthScribe encrypts data both in transit and at rest, while it does not use inputs or outputs to train its models. This innovation facilitates quicker integration into applications tailored for general medicine and orthopedics, ultimately enhancing the efficiency of clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. Up to now, HIPAA-compliant data security and generative AI haven’t gone hand-in-hand as AI is trained on large datasets centrally and often by third parties.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2024

million Australians had their health information stolen in the recent MediSecure hack. "We are proud to be Australia’s first and only oncology information management system with approved e-p rescribing functionality and conformance," claimed Magentus Charm's product lead Margot Mason in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2024

This video interviews leaders from a health information technology services firm, HCTec , and a front-line safety-net health care system, St. Training has been critical, to change workflows in addition to learning the elecronic systems. They will get on-site Epic training too.

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Clocktree

JUNE 15, 2020

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law passed in 1996 which requires secure handling of an individual’s health information (PHI).

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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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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. THE PROBLEM. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

NETCCN is a virtual health project designed to address the shortage of critical care trained clinicians. Where there are no ICU beds, there are no critical care trained clinicians. And even where there are ICUs, especially during surge situations, there are not enough of the right kinds of trained clinicians.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This leads to better adherence to prescribed regimens, fewer hospital readmissions, and overall improved health outcomes. AR technology superimposes digital information – such as 3D models or visual data – onto the real world, creating an interactive and immersive experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2024

However, when navigating clinical interactions involving medical terminology and patient care, human involvement and the use of trained medical interpreters remain essential for equitable or quality limited English Proficiency (LEP) patient care. ”), are well-suited for solutions like Google Translate or other AI-driven language models.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

David Lareau, CEO at Medicomp Systems 2025 will mark a critical shift from AI experimentation to standardization in clinical settings, with healthcare organizations implementing strict validation protocols to ensure AI tools are trained on real patient data rather than synthetic datasets.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Data Privacy and Security: Robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. Data Privacy and Security: Implementing robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. One trend that is likely to continue is the integration of patient portals with electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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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). These attacks target the weakest part of any security system, the end user.

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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. What do I mean? So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. In another settlement announced in 2017, 21st Century Oncology, Inc. 21CO) faced a $2.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Another important component in Singapore’s effective approach in containing the pandemic is the Ministry of Health’s method of risk profiling through multi-agency efforts to capture data, and subsequently having tiers to provide different levels of care based on the COVID-19 patient cases’ severity.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 28, 2025

Source: [link] NHS Scotland's new health and social care app is designed to significantly enhance patient self-management. Here's how: Increased Access to Information: Health Information: Access to reliable health information and resources, empowering patients to make informed decisions about their health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2024

The bracelet is intended for use in professional healthcare facilities, such as hospitals or skilled nursing facilities, or at home by trained healthcare professionals. Find out more at Corsano Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2024

AI systems require access to vast amounts of personal health information and it is crucial to ensure this data is handled securely and confidentially. If the data used to train these algorithms is not diverse, the AI could develop biases that lead to unequal treatment of different demographic groups.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In all these cases, well-trained AI can work much faster and more cheaply than a human consultant. MDClone can take a data set on real patients and generate a synthetic data set of fake people that contains no personal health information (PHI) but still reveals that limited set of dimensions.

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