HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 29, 2023

Medical records extracted during the recent Prospect Medical Holdings ransomware attack are being allegedly offered for sale on the dark web according to social media sources. The addition of the price tag has led some sources to comment that the notice is intended to accelerate a ransom payment.

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Ransomware Licensing HIPAA Hospitals 52

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A new study published in this month's issue of Health Policy and Technology found, however, that healthcare organizations may face obstacles when it comes to complying with the law. Sometimes failing to comply can carry a big price tag: The U.S. " ON THE RECORD.

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HIPAA COVID-19 Regulatory Compliance Compliance 272

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. Collaboration is key in vendor selection.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Governance 202

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HIMSS21 APAC Healthcare IT experts from around the world gathered virtually at the HIMSS21 APAC Health Conference on 18-19 October 2021 with the common goal of future-proofing healthcare. Full coverage: HIMSS21 & Health 2.0 European Health Conference. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Population Health

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

" As health systems adjusted to dramatic increases in virtual visits, they experienced a steep learning curve in a very short time. The most mature health systems recognize the importance of context and design their telehealth programs accordingly. For most health systems, telehealth is work-in-progress at best.

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Elder Care Doctors COVID-19 203

Foster Swift

JULY 18, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) was tasked with responding to how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) would be affected.

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HIPAA Health Care Reform Health Insurance 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

When coronavirus cases begin to grow in early spring, health systems were forced to pivot quickly – sometimes within a matter of days – to allocate scant resources and implement new technologies and workflows. " One problem, he said, is the technology hospitals use to record medication use around health systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Telemedicine Nurses Hospitals 143

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Licensing Hospitals 184

Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Workforce As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts. Let’s take the example of behavioral health.

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Fraud 326

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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Governance Health Outcomes Public Health 98

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. Technological advancements will relieve the administrative burdens associated with medical record requests.

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Health Insurance Public Health Hospitals 79

MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Best practices are provided for data tagging to ease searchability and reduce duplicate records. Action is needed to protect reproductive health data. There are many issues around reproductive health data. Reproductive health data is not defined by most of the new rules and laws that we’re seeing enacted.

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HIPAA Governance 130

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Teams of pharmacy technicians and pharmacists were tasked with the painstaking duty of refilling kits, verifying expiration dates, and maintaining extensive paper records for every medication vial, bottle, syringe, or IV infusion. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers.

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Hospitals 82

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

Full coverage: 2022 HIMSS European Health Conference & Exhibition. Full coverage: HIMSS21 APAC Health Conference. Video A look into the digitization of Indonesia's healthcare sector What are the three main digital transformation priorities for the nation's health system? Get all the coverage for the event on this page.

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Telemedicine Governance 102

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

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Doctors Hospitals 339

Foster Swift

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As if COVID-19 wasn’t enough of a challenge for many struggling hospitals and health care systems, there is another growing threat they must guard against: cyberattacks. hospitals and health care providers. Read More › Tags: Cybersecurity , Electronic Health Records , Hospice , Hospitals.

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COVID-19 Ransomware Hospitals 52

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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COVID-19 Doctors Hospitals Nurses 62

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. A recent study showed that clinical implementation of precision oncology is feasible across the across the VA health system, including rural Veterans.

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Department of Veterans Affairs Doctors Governance Hospitals 187

Foster Swift

JANUARY 25, 2021

As health care providers continue to face new challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important for providers to maintain compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”). Read More › Tags: Compliance , Cybersecurity , Electronic Health Records , HIPAA.

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HIPAA Compliance COVID-19 Health Insurance 52

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2023

Associates in Dermatology, a network of dermatology clinics in Indiana, Kentucky, and New York, has started notifying patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed in a ransomware attack on one of its business associates. According to Fowler, the 6.74

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Ransomware Electronic Medical Records Records Management HIPAA 68

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Nurses Governance 140

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This gap between expectations and reality isn’t working for patients who demand convenience and care access, and it’s also taking a toll on health system profitability and the staff members who are the lifeblood of these organizations. But today, health systems aren’t just reluctant to grant patients administrative access to their care.

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Patient Satisfaction COVID-19 Hospitals 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. It feels like every company has a health cloud offering these days. Healthcare cloud is everywhere.

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Patient Satisfaction Hospitals Telemedicine Public Health 132

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Information Services achievements that I am most thankful for at my organization include these key items: First, I’m thankful that we successfully implemented our integrated electronic health record. Mike Restuccia is the chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Telemedicine Governance 93

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

And many forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are finding significant clinical, financial and operational ROI for their efforts. By Bill Siwicki | August 03, 2023 News Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM Remote patient monitoring has helped the health system boost patient engagement, improve patient.

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Nurses Telemedicine Hospitals Medicare 103

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Paddy Padmanabhan When David Feinberg, head of Google Health, announced this past week that he was departing to take up the CEO role at the EHR company Cerner , media reports took it as an admission of defeat by Google in the campaign to win in the healthcare space. Google Health shuttered in 2011 , and Health Vault closed its doors in 2019.

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Doctors Hospitals 361

Compliancy Group

JULY 18, 2022

Demonstrating their continued focus on right of access violations, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced 11 settlements and one HIPAA fine for medical practices across a wide variety of specialties. Withholding records because of nonpayment.

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HIPAA Compliance Hospitals Nurses 98

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement AHRQ is helping the transition towards evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical decision-making that incorporates patients' needs and preferences. healthcare system needs to aspire to and is working towards.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Health Outcomes 214

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system. Region Tag: Global Edition. ' and more.

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Hospitals Telemedicine Governance 184

Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

The US Health and Human Services has issued updated guidance on online tracking, and it’s bad news for those of us in the medical field. It collects and stores user data, including protected health information (PHI) , which makes it subject to HIPAA compliance rules and regulations. Attention healthcare providers! Find Out More!

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HIPAA Compliance 52

Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of eleven investigations in its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative, bringing the total number of these enforcement actions to thirty-eight since the initiative began.

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HIPAA US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses 59

Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Telemedicine Public Health Hospitals 143

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay. A second wave of digital transformation?

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COVID-19 Governance World Health Public Health 156

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits.

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Health Outcomes Hospitals HIPAA Nurses 147

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | August 23, 2023 News Health system execs bullish on generative AI, but still lack strategy As they grapple with rising costs, three in four C-suite leaders say recent artificial intelligence. In this regularly updated page, we offer their perspective and advice.

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Nurses Governance Fraud Health Outcomes 95

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

Studies have shown that although mifepristone's safety record is superior to that of penicillin, it is more heavily restricted than opioids such as fentanyl. "Receiving reproductive health care, including early pregnancy termination care, through telehealth is no different."

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COVID-19 Telemedicine FDA Public Health 172