Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 and will ask Congress for new laws and resources to increase civil money penalties for HIPAA violations, increase HIPAA enforcement, and conduct proactive audits.

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KevinMD

JULY 31, 2023

This powerful feature opens up many … Read more… Harnessing the power of code interpreters in health care: a look at ChatGPT’s new feature and HIPAA compliance originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 29, 2024

Over the past decade, I’ve worked with only one physician who doggedly held onto his pager, refusing to adopt the hospital’s HIPAA-compliant messaging app. Screentime addiction is real and it is everywhere.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Under HIPAA compliance, healthcare organizations must ensure that all communications, including fax, are secure and meet stringent standards. By modernizing these systems with cloud-based solutions, healthcare organizations can find a balance between HIPAA compliance and operational efficiency.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It’s safe to assume that securing protected healthcare information (PHI) would be a top priority for healthcare IT and security professionals, even if HIPAA didn’t require it. In the healthcare industry, HIPAA provides an additional layer of risk management complexity. That offshore support can still be HIPAA compliant.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The hospital may be penalized for its HIPAA compliance based on the investigation caused by the alleged illegal activities of its rogue employees. Harvey allegedly received patient information from Kirby Dandridge, 38, Sylvia Taylor, 43, Kara Thompson, 30, Melanie Russell, 41, and Adrianna Taber, 26, who were all charged with violating HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2024

That’s why we were particularly interested in this session at HIMSS 2024 that looked at how to create a HIPAA-Compliant BYOD program which balanced the security needs of a healthcare organization while still meeting the workflow needs of their users. Million in HIPAA fines. Plus, healthcare has up to $1.5

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ram Krishnan, CEO at Valant Communicating with patients – in a compliant manner – is essential for behavioral health practices. All practices must comply with HIPAA, as well as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The first step is using a HIPAA-compliant telehealth solution.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

The ONC study revealed that while a growing group of patients access their electronic health records, 1 in 4 patients did not do so due to privacy and security concerns. Baking in privacy by design must be the go-to strategy for health IT developers to bolster patient trust in their electronic health records.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Loyal, I’m told by Sharma, created one of first HIPAA-compliant chatbots. Loyal respects HIPAA with two major design choices. But when strict privacy requirements control what can appear in the output, machine learning methods have to change. Loyal also tracks patient responses and suggests new topics to the clinician.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Last week, the FTC came out with a statement clarifying the intent of their Health Breach Notification Rule when it came to health apps and connected devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Another priority for members is seeing CMS getting more in lock-step with Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, and qualified health information networks. Part 2 – with HIPAA. The deadline to submit comments is January 31.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? The following is what they had to share with us. advertising platforms).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

mHealth companies should improve security controls for the most personal health information. As health care grows more omnichannel and distributed, cybersecurity will become more challenging at the point-of-care and a big risk for health care providers under current HIPAA regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

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? It’s more than just completing your annual HIPAA assessment.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Look for HIPAA compliance, EPCS compliance, HITRUST certification, ONC Certified HIT certification, SOC-2 Type II certification, and more. These practices play a critical role in maintaining data accuracy and compliance with regulations like HIPAA, while EMR and PM systems ensure data is encrypted and accessible through role-based controls.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Keragon , an AI-powered HIPAA-compliant automation platform for healthcare, has raised $7.5 The round was led by Upfront Ventures, with early investors – Afore Capital, Focal, and 25m Health, doubling down on their initial investments. million in an oversubscribed seed funding round. Plus, their support is next-level.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

As exciting as advancements have been, however, Joy Pritts, fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation and former chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, raised concerns about virtual care technology outpacing privacy protection policies. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2019

In the past couple of months, Amazon announced many health-related plans and developments, including: Accepting medical and health savings accounts (HSAs) to pay for consumer health products like over-the-counter drugs. See more on that recommendation, and subsequent social media frenzy, here on Health Populi ).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Cerebral’s investigation concluded that the data might be considered protected health information and that it had failed to make sure that these third parties met HIPAA requirements for protecting PHI.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with Epic application analysis! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Are there standardized protocols for data collection that ensure compliance with regulations such as HIPAA? Meeting compliance and regulatory requirements, such as HIPAA or GDPR, is critical for healthcare organizations.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 2, 2025

NDR-H solutions are specifically designed to address the unique challenges faced by healthcare organizations, such as the need to comply with regulations like HIPAA and the increasing prevalence of ransomware attacks. If a threat is detected, NDR-H can automatically trigger alerts and take actions to contain and mitigate the attack.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? To authentically contribute to societal health, it’s crucial to accept failure as an integral part of the process.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience as a PACS Administrator or software analyst in healthcare. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Any communication received from a Vytalize Health recruiter during your screening, interviewing, or selection process will come from an email ending in @vytalizehealth.com Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with data architecture.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Broadly popular technologies such as apps and wearables were barely conceivable at the time of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's passage in 1996. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. The federal government has taken steps to align privacy policies with the boom in health technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

Healthcare workflow technology company Braidio has partnered with health IT vendor BlueSemi with the aim of creating a preventive home-health and telehealth ecosystem. By integrating the device with Braidio's My Health Concierge platform, the companies will be attempting to encourage positive behavioral change.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with Epic application analysis and coordination! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2025

Read more… A Look at Changes in the New HIPAA Security Rule. Key pieces of the proposed rule include updated cybersecurity risk analysis best practices , along with stronger requirements for HIPAA business associate verification. Read more… 2025 Health IT Predictions: Staffing Shortages and Burnout.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

"Additionally, patient privacy is of the utmost importance to Gerald Champion, so we knew our team needed a HIPAA-compliant solution for our providers and patient population." There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " PROPOSAL. To read this special report, click here.

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