Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Brendan Keeler (@healthbjk) on the topic “Healthcare Technology Regulation: Past, Present and Future.” We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/18 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). ” Regulation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2020

Alleva, who focuses on the federal regulation of healthcare providers, payer enrollment and HIPAA compliance, told Healthcare IT News that it's still too soon to tell how patients will react to loosening coronavirus restrictions. "Some states are still in particular phases," she said.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 24, 2019

HIPAA Compliant Texting? Like many telehealth practitioners in the digital age, you may be asking yourself “Is texting HIPAA compliant?” Text messaging–SMS texting or MMS texting–presents an easy to use option for communicating with … Read more. ” The answer is a bit tricky.

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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. billion active monthly accounts. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” My talk was next up, as I presented the evolving retail health/care ecosystem landscape and the growing role of the patient-as-payor. Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36 per average internet user per month in 2025, $3.18

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Advanced Security Both providers and patients benefit from the advanced security measures built into telehealth platforms through high-level, HIPAA compliant encryption that protects sensitive information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

While he acknowledged that HIPAA and other privacy laws might "thwart the worst potential abuses," Hawley also pointed out that "loopholes exist in every legal framework." "Nevertheless, I urge you to prioritize a searching review of this particular transaction."

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Amazon is already well-entrenched in many health care activities, as a new report from Bertelsmann Stiftung presented in this chart. KLAS Research recently published research on AWS in health care, finding among 13 health care client users most had better/faster processes and improved patient or clinician experience.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Avoiding HIPAA violations goes beyond air tight technical system controls. Consequently, Congress incorporated into HIPAA provisions that mandated the adoption of Federal privacy protections for individually identifiable health information. ” – HIPAA Journal. . ” – HIPAA Journal.

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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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

When survey respondents were explained that federal privacy laws (namely, HIPAA) do not cover much of the data that flows into apps (such as that from wearable tech like smartwatches, connected fitness equipment, or nutrition tracking sites), two-thirds of Americans were concerned about their potential health privacy “leakages.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. THE PROBLEM. But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 17, 2022

Scott Pradels, CEO and cofounder of the virtual care platform Carium, sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the importance of effectively evaluating workflow process security and why he believes system-owned devices could present their own complications. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Intersection of HIPPA and AI Solutions When it comes to healthcare, specifically the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, we need to consider two critical concepts before we look at AI solutions developed by a vendor in the HIPAA realm. So, HIPAA may not apply. About Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But data silos present a hurdle, as does the capability to scale products across an enterprise. " She also noted that the vast majority of data is now digitized, presenting its own unique opportunity: "How to put that data into action? Are we using that data in the service of the patient?"

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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 My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2025

Ethical and Regulatory Considerations Healthcare operates within a highly regulated environment, demanding strict adherence to compliance standards like HIPAA and GDPR when implementing AI-driven technologies. Implementing data standardization and real-time validation strengthens the foundation for effective automation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Users may also soon have the ability to receive real-time feedback on their presence in meetings, as well as coaching on their conversational and presentation skills, Zoom said. In the blog post response , Zoom addressed concerns about HIPAA-protected conversations on the platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2025

Additionally, patient safety, privacy, and ethical considerations present significant challenges for seamless AI integration. While it’s possible to build solutions that effectively address 30-50% of more common cases, the long tail presents a unique problem. It is a field where a single error can have life-or-death consequences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

During the meeting, the 15 commissioners present weighed the ideal fee schedule for physicians and what services might be included in the future. Presenters also zeroed in on audio-only services. Winter and Tabor also proposed that telehealth technology and services should be required to comply with HIPAA after the PHE.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

With the alarming growth of cyber-threats in healthcare, it’s key for an enterprise health cloud to address security rules, safeguards and specs required by HIPAA. Most consumers deem healthcare providers to be good data stewards , researchers from frog, the designer consultancy, found.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

With the tracker present within password-protected patient portals, packets of data were allegedly sent to Facebook whenever someone clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment. Meta did not enter into HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with the organizations in question.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Data masking, data aggregation, synthetic data, and differential privacy are among the solutions, but each presents difficulties and limitations. The report explains the methods used to generate the data and confirms that it can now be considered non-Protected Health Information (non-PHI) and is considered de-identified under HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

"The implementation of a telepsychiatry program expedites the treatment time for a patient presenting in the emergency department in crisis," he continued. Expediting treatment time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2019

"Telehealth vendors and providers — just like our colleagues across health systems — prioritize privacy and safety and hold themselves to the same standards and laws, including HIPAA, as if the care were provided in an office setting."

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, the transition from traditional paper records to digital formats presents a challenge that extends beyond a simple “scan all” approach. Regulatory compliance, such as adherence to HIPAA, becomes even more critical in the digital landscape, where the risk of data exposure is heightened.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

To solve that problem, Nick Heesters, the senior advisor for Cybersecurity for OCR, moderates an OCR video training to raise awareness among covered organizations and address frequently asked questions about implementing HIPAA Rules. OCR Video Answers Questions on HIPAA Recognized Security Practices. Covered Entities Beware.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

At present, though telehealth has been a lifeline for many, Smith said, "we have already seen that telehealth is not the great equalizer." Rheuban spoke to the potential barriers presented by uneven coverage from the private insurance sector. Sanjeev Arora, founder and director of Project ECHO. " Payment parity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Amwell noted that electronic health record vendors such as Cerner and Epic could build telehealth functionality into their existing systems, and pointed to competitors such as Zoom and Twilio that have pivoted to providing telehealth amidst the relaxation of HIPAA requirements during the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By contrast, there are HIPAA-compliant ways to use texting to convey information to patients. As far as accessibility goes, Sanae says the company went through an audit to try and ensure the platform does not present hurdles for users with disabilities. But he said bundling workflows into the portal inevitably creates friction.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

While cloud adoption offers numerous advantages, it also presents new security challenges. This begins with selecting reputable cloud service providers that comply with healthcare-specific regulations, i.e. HIPAA. Hospitals and other healthcare institutions must prioritize secure cloud adoption strategies.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, Ann Mond Johnson, Keynote Speaker on the second day of the conference echoed Fryery’s presentation using Direct to Consumer (DTC) healthcare services as an example. With this technology, patient access is trending upward and quickly developing in a number of areas.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 6, 2016

HHS has produced an 8 page fact-sheet on Ransomeware and HIPAA that is fantastic. Just 8 pages, packed with very readable, reasonable, reasoned, and backed by long standing Security and Privacy HIPAA Regulation. It is so good that I have very little to say as any emphasis I would add is already in the 8 pages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2024

IoT (Internet of Things) devices present additional security risks and must be secured using strong authentication, encryption, and communication protocols. AI/ML can enhance disease diagnosis and treatment personalization, but they require access to extensive patient data. million in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2024

The integration of AI presents a delicate balance between the use of human oversight and the integration of AI technology. In the area of translation and interpretation services, we are witnessing the evolution of incorporating AI technologies while upholding critical standards for patient privacy and care.

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