Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Under the current privacy regime of HIPAA for healthcare, indeed, we are. “HIPAA, as passed in 1996 and amended in 2009 through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, defines privacy through a sectoral lens. legislators can get on the same privacy page.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

This is the breakthrough push that the healthcare industry -- notably providers – needed to accelerate telehealth adoption. OCR lifts HIPAA restrictions – and innovation efforts accelerate. So telehealth services will broadly expand during this coronavirus calamity. The key phrase in this? So someone (you?)

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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

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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Clocktree

MAY 26, 2021

Healthcare industry leaders suggest that a hybrid care model will emerge as the norm. At the onset of the pandemic, HIPAA compliance requirements for telehealth were relaxed. However, the requirement to use HIPAA compliant software is expected to be back in place soon. How Clocktree safeguards your data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nate MacLeitch , Founder and CEO at QuickBlox The demand for AI-powered Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) in healthcare is evident: 75% of executives believe that generative AI has reached a stage where it is poised to reshape the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The following is a guest article by Emmanuelle Hose, Global Vice President of Industry Solutions at Rimini Street The use of AI in the healthcare market is booming , having reached $22,449.3 Are there standardized protocols for data collection that ensure compliance with regulations such as HIPAA? annually through 2030.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. The post The Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach is $408 Per Stolen Record, 3X the Industry Average appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

How the Industries got into Tech Debt Medical devices and custom medical processes undergo strict scrutiny to ensure quality and consumer safety. Technical debt (tech debt), referring to the deferred maintenance and upgrades of a system, is commonly accrued in the healthcare and life sciences industries.

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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

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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 4, 2023

Responsible clinicians are likely to ask whether sharing protected health information (PHI) by telehealth companies equates to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Key aspects of HIPAA that might be relevant include: HIPAA requires covered entities (e.g., Clash of the Titans?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

While HIPAA revolutionized patient data protection in 1996, today’s interconnected digital landscape has rendered these safeguards obsolete. Additionally, since the Privacy Rule holds that de-identified data is not considered PHI, the relatedprivacy protections under HIPAA are lost once a data set is de-identified.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Keragon , an AI-powered HIPAA-compliant automation platform for healthcare, has raised $7.5 Keragon is the first no-code workflow automation platform purpose-built for the healthcare industry. This is just one example of how Keragon is transforming healthcare operations for small-to-medium practices through HIPAA-compliant automations.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. In addition to the “data is the new oil” mantra, Marc noted the growth of omnichannel in retail that has begun to re-shape the consumer-facing optical industry.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

Here’s what we-know-we know about health care, privacy, and security: briefly, • HIPAA covers patients’ PHI that is held by covered entities and shared with contracted business associates. Amon the five industries they tracked, healthcare accounted for 1 in 4 total breaches in 2017, exposing over five million patient records.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. (FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters).

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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. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Omniscient offers practical, modern, and cost-effective solutions to enhance financial performance across industries, with specialized offerings for the healthcare sector, by rapidly deploying sophisticated digital platforms designed to drive substantial performance improvements.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2021

Cerner has struck a deal in which it will let a life insurance industry data vendor access patient records. Under the terms of the deal, risk management and digital services vendor MIB will be able to offer life insurance industry players access to 54 million patient medical records, as well as 5,400 patient portals. The […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At the same time, technology is advancing rapidly, and trends like the growing shift toward healthcare at home and the consumerization of healthcare – where patients expect greater convenience in accessing quality care – are driving the industry change.

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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 News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

"Healthcare has been slow to adopt the connectivity that is so prevalent and innovative in other industries," said Iain Scholnick, CEO of Braidio. "The flow of patient information needs to be completely secure and HIPAA-compliant in order to ensure that doctors can give the best recommendations and provide the best care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

State laws and policies should also define consumer health data with the uniform language defined as protected health information under HIPAA, the group said in its announcement this week. The DEA may be putting a telehealth controlled substance registry on the table in holding listening sessions in September.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

The hurdles to implementing telemedicine programs among smaller practices are fourfold, said Nate Lacktman, chair of the national telemedicine and digital health industry team at Foley and Lardner. " However, he cautioned, the relaxation of HIPAA enforcement around telehealth tools "is intended to be time-limited."

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Digital Health Global

MAY 1, 2024

Healthie is HIPAA Compliant and SOC-2 Certified. As the only foundationally HIPAA-compliant and HITRUST-certified work management platform purpose-built for healthcare, Dock serves as the administrative hub for The Other Half Of Healthcare providing a layer of accountability across the industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Clinicians create a virtual mental health appointment using Zoom's secure, HIPAA-compliant video technology, share that link with the patient and launch the online meeting directly from the Osmind patient app. "As clinicians, we have a professional obligation to only use telehealth platforms that are HIPAA-compliant," she added.

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Vidyo

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Drawing from extensive research and our own industry experience, weve curated a list of the top 7 HIPAA-compliant telehealth video conferencing solutions that stand out in healthcare. The post Top 7 HIPAA-Compliant Telehealth Video Conferencing Solutions appeared first on Enghouse Video.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This attack disrupted healthcare insurance claims and patient care, underscoring vulnerabilities within the industry. Securing the Future of Healthcare The new HHS regulations represent a pivotal step in addressing the escalating cybersecurity threats in the healthcare industry. Whats Changing in Healthcare Cybersecurity?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

The IBM Security and Ponemon Institute 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that health care breaches continue to yield hackers the most financial return over all other industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

In an industry facing a projected shortage of 86,000 physicians by 2036 , any technology that reduces administrative burden becomes strategic. Most importantly, organizations can demonstrate enhanced HIPAA compliance through detailed access logs and stronger authentication protocols. The benefits extend beyond security.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

"It's no secret the pandemic created new challenges for the healthcare industry, and our providers altered their day-to-day routines to fit COVID-19 requirements," said Jennifer Gruger, telehealth project manager at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center. " PROPOSAL. To read this special report, click here.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S. The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish. Patients in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2025

MOVEit, a widely used file transfer platform in the healthcare industry, highlighted weaknesses in vendor ecosystems, posing a significant challenge for private equity-backed companies that depend on outsourced IT or data services. Looking Forward Fixing this requires all hands on deck. The future demands collaboration, not finger-pointing.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In just the first three months of 2024, there were over 116 data breaches in the healthcare industry, allowing cybercriminals to access private patient data, medications, clinical records, Social Security numbers, and more by employing tactics like phishing emails and malware. billion by 2028.

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