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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We were able to roll out various digital health tools , telemedicine , and mobile health applications that not only better the lives of our patients but also our staff. These tools helped to keep us safe during the pandemic and are now working to ease the burden healthcare can have on people. The following is what they had to share.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 21, 2023

The agencies contacted 130 health systems and telehealth providers by mail to emphasize the potential HIPAA risks of using Meta/Facebook pixel and Google Analytics tracking tools that may be "impermissibly disclosing" protected health information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

" "I don't think healthcare really understands what true patient engagement is," said de Zwirek, whose company offers patient communication tools. By contrast, there are HIPAA-compliant ways to use texting to convey information to patients. "There is no single common standard.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

So as we are looking into the cloud and possibly adding it to our organizations, we need to be looking at some additional tools that can help you better manage your cloud efforts in healthcare. The following is their recommendations on the necessary tools. To better handle cloud in healthcare, SaaS tools like SecureFrame can be used.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services has issued new guidance describing how HIPAA covered entities can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD. Pino, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Do read this entire report if you have any role to play with health IT and building consumer trust with their personal electronic records as well as growing adoption of digital health tools (including apps, wearable tech, and remote health monitoring devices) in and beyond the pandemic.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS. and Google G Suite Hangouts Meet.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect.

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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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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Wearables and other remote patient monitoring tools have expanded patient care beyond the walls of brick-and-mortar clinics. Pritts noted that HIPAA is quite broad – but it doesn't apply to the entirety of health IoT. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

He pointed to the uptick in the adoption of telehealth software platforms targeted toward solo or small-group practices as an indication that providers had found themselves suddenly in need of lightweight, streamlined tools with a quick onboarding process. "Take a weekend!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

" This has resulted in: saved time for Szotek's staff, who no longer have to tell the patient to download an app and show them how to set it up, a HIPAA-secure system that does not require separate log-ins, and a patient adoption rate of more than 90%, he stressed.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 1, 2024

Dock Health’s workflow automation tool importantly contributes to an improved provider experience, and we are excited to welcome Dock to Healthie’s Harbor, our marketplace of third-party tools and services,” said Erica Jain, CEO & co-founder, Healthie. Healthie is HIPAA Compliant and SOC-2 Certified.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Healthcare providers should adopt a proactive cybersecurity stance, ensuring both patient trust and compliance with industry standards like HIPAA and HITRUST, said George Pappas, CEO of Intraprise Health, a cybersecurity company recently acquired by Health Catalyst. HITRUST is another important framework that goes beyond HIPAA and NIST 2.0.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The use cases for health care must wrestle with HIPAA and other privacy laws that may be relevant for a particular medical situation or patient population.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This is due to more tools gathering more clinical evidence to show effectiveness and validity. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The health consumer conundrum on trust and “my” health/care data in our current world is that so much health-related data isn’t covered by HIPAA or in the medical claim or EHR. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

It’s not the only barrier, and not a panacea; but it’s an important one in terms of a potential on-ramp to self-health tools. Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate. They are licensed, trained, and tested for service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As the senators noted in press statements, at more than 25 years old, HIPAA covers patient-doctor interactions but does not typically protect health data patients record on those tools – potentially putting the information at risk. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. And the U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Working together, Hint and Dock share a mission to deliver relief to care teams from unnecessary administrative burden, inefficient processes, and the lack of collaboration tools that healthcare needs – powering the direct care industry. Michael Docktor, CEO and co-founder of Dock Health. “I

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Accelerate digital health. Advance academic medicine. Deliver breakthrough treatments. Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 13, 2023

Like many technology companies and healthcare providers , between October 2019 to January 2023 Cerebral used pixel tracking technologies, according to the company's Notice of HIPAA Privacy Breach. It also is advising those affected to monitor credit statements and change Cerebral account passwords.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

The third chart bolsters a fact we know-we-know about patients’ faith in health care providers as trusted data stewards : that is that apps recommended by doctors and hospitals more likely make patients feel more comfortable about using them than digital tools not vetted by a trusted source. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

" The senators also asked for a written plan regarding OCR's enforcement discretion of HIPAA compliance – and a security analysis of non-HIPAA-compliant tools that providers and patients relied on during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300. And, there are over 500 mentions of the word, “security.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2020

According to the company's website, the software integrates into a provider's electronic health record, allowing for electronic, HIPAA-compliant patient reports to be transferred into an EHR system. BioTelemetry is among a number of vendors offering wearable tools to diagnose arrhythmia, which requires timely, accurate ECG analysis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Engin Demirel, EMEA head of product management, marketing and sales operations at Olympus, says it is now a vital tool in the hospital’s digital health armamentarium. Demirel: People use video-conferencing tools like Zoom or Teams for their virtual communication, but the medical environment is different.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2024

Products HubSpot Smart CRM now lets customers store HIPAA-protected and medical data. Lyric launched 42 , a SaaS platform for payment integrity and accuracy tools. Dental patient engagement software Intiveo is integrated with Dentrix Ascend , a practice management system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

HIPAA includes a requirement for MINIMUM NECESSARY ACCESS. Everyone knows that HIPAA requires patient information to be kept private and not shared with friends, family members, or anyone else without the patient’s authorization. HIPAA requires that computer activity logs be reviewed to identify unauthorized or inappropriate access.

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