Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

All practices must comply with HIPAA, as well as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Technology plays a crucial role in HIPAA-compliant communication for behavioral health. Embracing Secure EHR Software and Patient Portal Effective EHR software helps ensure HIPAA-compliant interactions.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Finally, doctors are trusted data stewards for patients — something we’ve appreciated since the advent of HIPAA. Note that ecommerce sites such as Amazon, Target, and Walmart — and three powerhouse channels for retailing digital health devices — all host consumer reviews for devices sold on their sites.

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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

Ultimately, healthcare organizations must implement systems that are secure by design, yet flexible enough to meet the fast-paced demands of modern healthcare environments. Look for HIPAA compliance, EPCS compliance, HITRUST certification, ONC Certified HIT certification, SOC-2 Type II certification, and more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This transformation positions us to meet the evolving needs of our community here in the Phoenix metro area, ensuring we provide accessible high-quality care across multiple channels. Our shift is about readiness – being proactive and preparing to meet both current and future healthcare needs.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that during the coronavirus pandemic it will use discretion when enforcing HIPAA-compliance for telehealth communications tools. " Wherever possible, providers should use telehealth tools from vendors that are HIPAA compliant and will enter into business-associate agreements, said OCR.

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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. Its leaders found that the tracking technology used to mine user data had disclosed information to third parties and subcontractors.

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Optimum Healthcare IT

MAY 6, 2024

Not confident in your HIPAA compliance landscape? ServiceNow can help your IT team meet organizational demand. The post From Regulations To Reality: HIPAA Compliance And ServiceNow appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT. Cybersecurity on your mind?

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Within the Osmind EHR, clinicians can access a suite of digital tools to meet high-patient demand, like progress monitoring and journaling tools. "As clinicians, we have a professional obligation to only use telehealth platforms that are HIPAA-compliant," she added. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Users can now manage their AI Companion settings for meetings, team chat, whiteboard and mail all in one place in the Zoom web portal. The real-time digital assistant capabilities can be used in meetings, team chat, phone, email and its whiteboard tools, with more to come on the video conferencing vendor's road map.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

However, we now were left with a clinical staff of three: one doctor, one nurse and one referral coordinator to meet the medical needs of 1,200 patients in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.” With this temporary, unexpected closure, VIM staff knew they needed to find a way to continue to meet both goals. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " PROPOSAL. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But Americans must be able to trust that their personal health data is protected if this technology can meet its full potential," said Cassidy in a statement. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. WHY IT MATTERS. This legislation starts this process on a pathway to make sure it is done right," said Cassidy.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Our platform meets the highest security standards and is fully HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, undergoing regular audits by independent auditors. “Meeting the team at Upheal confirmed for me that this is a company truly dedicated to ethically reducing therapists administrative burden so they can get back to focusing on care.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"In the beginning of the pandemic, we also used FaceTime and Duo under the HIPAA waiver," East recalled. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. "Our IT department worked diligently to find HIPAA-compliant, user-friendly solutions to meet our clients' needs. It uses GrandPads and iPads for hardware.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

GNC also, in a HIPAA-certified manner (explained on the website) that they will be collecting users’ information which consumer-members can access — in the form of visit notes and prescription data, and be able to download and save this information. The website notes that there is a 12-visit maximum under this plan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx. “We proposed multiple options, from sending meeting links to making open meeting rooms available for patients for check-in and checkout. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

To facilitate the patient sessions, the center set up a couple of rooms with televisions, computers, webcams and so forth to conduct HIPAA-compliant Zoom and Vee-See sessions with the newly contracted physicians. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. “We also purchased TVs for our large meeting rooms to facilitate doing group sessions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

While I will miss meeting with technology developers and colleagues in person, I have meetings set-up via phone, Zoom, and Teams to brainstorm updates and trends with my key trusted touchpoints in health IT. Health Populi’s Hot Points : This report gives us the current snapshot of U.S. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 16, 2022

DrKumo solves the most painful problems in healthcare with a user-friendly solution powered by its state-of-the-art, HIPAA-compliant, mobile-enabled, continuous real-time monitoring, and AI/ML engine. The post US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo Meets DrKumo in Exclusive AAPI Founders Roundtable appeared first on DrKumo.

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AMD Telemedicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Read More about EOMC's Telemedicine Program What our customers are saying … Dr. Lisa Gwynn “AMD is a telehealth company that has always been dependable, and extremely knowledgeable in assisting with choosing the right equipment to meet our needs. Their customer service and technical support of our programs has been impeccable.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

We primarily use a HIPAA-compliant Zoom system along with our Epic EHR to conduct our telehealth operations,” she said. The institute already had an existing HIPAA-compliant Zoom account and it already was on the Epic EHR. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Marc Ferrara, CEO Information Services with Jobson, introduced the meeting with some context. But the non-traditional data bytes (detailed in the Cracked Labs graphic above) that industry, and especially retail at large, are mashing up aren’t usually covered by HIPAA, unless they reside in HIPAA-covered entities’ information systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. Kaiser Permanente already uses the company to optimize patient communications. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.” The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. First, the law.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

TriHealth has more than 135 locations, more than 700 providers and more than 250,000 attributed lives, so it was imperative that it have a product that could be scaled quickly and easily to meet demand. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2025

Companies that integrate compliance-driven infrastructure can better position themselves to meet regulatory demands while continuing to provide seamless prescription fulfillment. Providers handle sensitive patient information, making adherence to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) essential.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." The platform and the training staff provided gave the hospital the agility to rapidly meet patients' changing needs. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2020

ChristianaCare this week announced the launch of its Home Care Coach, a HIPAA-eligible Alexa Skill aimed at meeting the needs of home health patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services indicated that it would waive penalties for good faith use of non-HIPAA compliant video conferencing software during the nationwide public health emergency." " This was particularly important, Uscher-Pines noted, as many HIPAA compliant software became overwhelmed with users.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

After some comparative research, he decided on telehealth vendor Medici’s HIPAA-compliant app because of its attractive interface, ease of use, and ability to quickly and easily exchange text messages with patients – a feature patients love, he remarked. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Jensen said the app is very easy to use.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 9, 2020

” HIPAA-compliant secure messaging. Backline’s secure messaging meets HIPAA requirements for protecting private health information. Being able to continue care with their clinical teams and stay connected with the friends who helped them through recovery can help clients avoid relapse.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes. “Fortunately, HIPAA-compliant Zoom proved to be very simple to operate from both ends,” Robeck remarked. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Executive Mental Health used the following technology to meet the challenge of providing mental healthcare during the pandemic: Apple iPad series 7 with 9.8-inch This allowed patients to meet with their clinician in less than a minute. Are the devices/software HIPAA-compliant?

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