Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Today, so much primary care is self-care — where empowered patients, now health consumers, seek to take control over their health/care experience and shop what medical services and wellness opportunities are shoppable. There’s a blur between self-care and more formal primary care.

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E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As my friends Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory Officer at Ciitizen (whom I profiled here in Health Populi ), and Vince Kuraitis, longtime health strategy guru and author of the blog e-CareManagement.com , characterized this challenge, “The Goldilocks Dilemma” in The Health Care Blog.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 13, 2019

The McKinsey “2,750 times” statistic is a pretty good proxy for the amount of your personal health data that is NOT protected by HIPAA and currently is broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties. Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

.” We’re at a turning point in the post-Facebook/Cambridge Analytica and Equifax breach environment, where patients and consumers still believe their health care providers and doctors are their most-trusted data steward. Deven and Vince will teach me more on this evolving challenge that touches all of us.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

health citizens’ health engagement given growing financial exposure to health care costs (e.g., Financial literacy, especially key to U.S. high deductibles, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket copayments).

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

Those advertising companies include Google, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, and many more, which are immune to HIPAA violations because they are not covered entities. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. ” JMIR Mental Health 7, no. What Is Privacy?,

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 20, 2019

Congress is seriously considering bipartisan legislation — the “Protecting Personal Health Data Act” — to better protect the privacy of consumers’ personal data. Read the full post on The Health Care Blog. appeared first on e-CareManagement blog.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? Waystar, a company that supports revenue cycle management in health care, published a survey report on Consumer perspectives on how social determinants impact clinical experience. What does “de-identification” mean in this scenario?

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We are all Homo informaticus these days , multi-channel, multi-platform beings using digital platforms. “Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living,” Nicholas Negroponte wrote in Being Digital. He said that in 1995.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. The post Telehealth Policy Barriers to Observe appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

HIPAA compliant email provider Paubox unveiled Paubox Marketing , which is designed to help provider send personalized yet compliant email marketing messages. Value-based payment platform provider Clarify Health launched Clarify Access , an analytics tool designed to help pharma companies develop market access strategies.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs. If you are interested in learning more about policy and reimbursement, bookmark these resources: Center for Connected Health Policy – state and national policy information.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs. If you are interested in learning more about policy and reimbursement, bookmark these resources: Center for Connected Health Policy – state and national policy information.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 21, 2024

Integration and policy support for RPM is crucial for enhancing access and efficiency in healthcare, especially in managing high-risk conditions such as hypertensive disorders post-pregnancy. The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) provides comprehensive data showing a substantial policy framework supporting RPM.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

To address health equality challenges, healthcare delivery must be streamlined to improve quality and provide care in many traditional health settings. Health policy initiatives must prioritize prevention and health promotion to address health conditions and disparities among different population groups.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Other barriers to adoption include: the difficulty of building successful business models centered on lowering spending in a largely revenue-maximizing system in which providers often lack the incentives to eliminate waste; HIPAA-related privacy rules and restrictions that hinder data sharing across digital platforms; incompatibility between newer (..)

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E-CareManagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

by Vince Kuraitis and Deven McGraw. Two years ago we wouldn’t have believed it — the U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019. There is some bipartisan support and a strong possibility that legislation will be passed. Two recent articles in The Washington Post and AP News will help you get up to speed.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disrupted and re-shaped the annual CES across so many respects — the meeting of thousands making up the global consumer tech community “met” virtually, both keynote and education sessions were pre-recorded, and the lovely serendipity of learning and meeting new concepts and contacts wasn’t so straightforward. (..)

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

There could be a similar discussion around how the players in the health care system are evolving. Would you have thought about your health care record’s stewardship for a second when you were at your health care provider 15 years ago, hastily signing a HIPAA form? Not really.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2023, patients-as-health citizens remain concerned about the privacy and security of their personal information across many fronts: in women’s health data in the post-Roe v Wade era, for medical bill redlining , or for advertisers who fall well out of “healthcare” contexts and HIPAA oversight.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

For Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded access to telehealth beyond designated rural areas, loosened HIPAA requirements around telehealth platforms, and instituted parity in reimbursement with in-person visits. At least 22 states have explicitly implemented telehealth parity for Medicaid.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Payers and providers can embrace increased data privacy by focusing on existing compliance efforts, which will require taking time to better understanding HIPAA. Add in that healthcare is a prime target, and all of the factors point to healthcare needing to do more to protect data. Consumerization of healthcare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

Citizens around the world unite around the concept that Trust is Dead. This is no truer than in the U.S., where trust in every type of organization and expert has plummeted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, political and social strife, and an economic downturn.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2021

cannot afford to pay for quality health care — an especially acute challenge for Black and Hispanic Americans, according to a West Health-Gallup poll conducted in March 2021, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. One in five people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

The last chapter (8) of HealthConsuming considers whether Americans can become “health citizens.” ” “Citizens” in this sense goes back to the Ancient Greeks: I return to Hippocrates, whose name is, of course, the root of The Hippocratic Oath that physicians take.

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