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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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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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 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 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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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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For healthcare organizations, this is critical to prevent interruptions to patient care or breaches of sensitive health information. With human error responsible for a significant portion of security breaches— 55% according to one report —it’s vital for healthcare organizations to invest in ongoing cybersecurity training.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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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 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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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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Mend

JANUARY 31, 2024

CCBHCs play a crucial role in delivering comprehensive behavioral health services, and to achieve this, strict staffing requirements are mandated by the PAMA. Ensuring that staff possesses diverse disciplinary backgrounds, necessary licensing and accreditation, and cultural and linguistic training is imperative for the success of CCBHCs.

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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

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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 30, 2023

Telehealth Complications of the Right of Access Initiative During COVID, many Learners joining training at Telehealth.org were quite surprised to learn that HIPAA did not “go away.” What is the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative? Essential Telehealth Law & Ethical Issues Bring your telehealth practice into legal compliance.

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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 Today

JUNE 11, 2024

Even with user-friendly interfaces, misinterpretations can occur due to lack of training or simple mistakes. Ensuring proper training and clear communication protocols is vital to mitigate this risk. User training plays a critical role in minimizing misinterpretations of RPM data.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The underlying theme of AHIMA’s annual conference was that health information management professionals are both encouraged and frustrated at the state of the industry , Colin Hung reported from Baltimore. Home care and SNF compliance training partner ShowdMe announced a Series A funding round.

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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

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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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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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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Staying abreast of these changes requires constant monitoring, training, and adaptation. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets standards for protecting sensitive patient information and ensuring the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI).

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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).

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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

MARCH 19, 2024

These formats include Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which provides a common language for laboratory tests and clinical measures.

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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 Today

MAY 17, 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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

” Unprecedented in telehealth history, the sharing of sensitive health information in early 2023 is poised to shatter provider naivete about working for large-scale business entities entering healthcare. BetterHelp will reportedly be required to pay $7.8 The issue isn’t limited to BetterHelp, though.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

Measuring Data Quality – Clinical Architecture We talk a lot about needing good quality data in order to run analytics or train AI algorithms, but what does that really mean? We caught up with XSOLIS Co-founder Jim Sohr to learn more about the company.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2024

Aasim Saeed, CEO at Amenities Health Unfortunately, I’m very skeptical about AI in healthcare. It’s that the hype train has left the station without offering much in terms of tangible use cases. How much time did that save us? The list goes on and on.

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