Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

Koza, Healthcare Associate Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. While various legislation has been implemented or proposed at both the federal and state levels to standardize and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), most stop short of addressing the significant ethical challenges that may arise.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. ” Cordovano further explained to me. Move fast with AI and break things? Three in five U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

The consumerization of healthcare and more to the point – the digitization of the patient experience that is required to satisfy it – is no longer theoretical. While unique to every healthcare organization, effective digital front doors all have characteristics in common. But what does this mean for incumbents?

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Redox

MARCH 20, 2024

The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee defines zero trust as “… a cybersecurity strategy premised on the idea that no user or asset is to be implicitly trusted. Why zero trust is important in healthcare 2023 was the worst-ever year for breached healthcare records , increasing by 156% over 2022.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the healthcare industry through the wringer. Healthcare executives up and down the line have learned many valuable lessons from their experiences this past year. Tina Esposito, chief health information officer at Advocate Aurora Health, based in Downers Grove, Illinois.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 17, 2023

Considering the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is now in its third decade, the Privacy Rule took effect 20 years ago, and compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule has been mandatory for 18 years, there have been relatively few financial penalties over the years, with just 130 imposed by OCR to resolve HIPAA violations.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 18, 2022

Extraordinary advances in technology have opened up previously unthinkable possibilities for the healthcare industry and improvements in patient care. With this growth comes the need to ensure ASCs adopt new tools to keep up with the pace of expansion, and that includes an increased adoption of EHRs.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The response: A health plan is a comprehensive package of healthcare services and coverage that helps individuals or groups manage and finance their healthcare needs. Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare. and ChatGPT.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

The healthcare industry dragged sorely behind other industries in digital maturity just three years ago , according to McKinsey. No industry felt this shift as strongly as healthcare. Now healthcare professionals grapple with heightened patient expectations and mass employee burnout amid The Great Resignation.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nic McMahon , CEO at United Language Group Communication and connection are crucial in healthcare settings. To better connect with their community and ensure equitable access, healthcare organizations are shifting to a more human-focused, patient-centered care approach.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Anne Kim, Co-Founder and CEO of Secure AI Labs (SAIL) Clinical research is only as good and thorough as the data that’s available — and we need to do a better job of making that data accessible for researchers. Large institutions don’t always have robust workflows in place to securely share and monitor their data.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was introduced to simplify the administration of healthcare, eliminate wastage, prevent healthcare fraud, and ensure employees could maintain healthcare coverage between jobs. What is HIPAA and Who Does It Apply To?

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 1, 2022

One of the longest-lasting impacts of the pandemic may be the creation and adoption of alternative communications methods in the healthcare arena. An HHS study released in December 2021 showed 2020 telehealth usage for Medicare patients increased 63-fold over 2019 (840,000 to 52.7 Compliancy Group can help! *We

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Unpacking Use Cases for VR in Healthcare. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 6, 2022

At the most basic level, a digital wallet is a digital, mobile version of patients’ financial accounts that is easily accessible via a computer or smartphone, eliminating much of the need to carry an actual wallet. Clearly, digital wallets are a trend that’s coming to healthcare – and providers must be prepared. In 2020, 92.3

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

HIPAA Journal is conducting interviews with healthcare professionals, compliance professionals, and industry service providers to find out more about how their experiences with HIPAA, their successes, and the challenges they have and continue to face with HIPAA compliance. Tell the readers about your career in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

David Finn, EVP of Strategic Innovation for CynergisTek, said that while all these things carry huge potential to positively impact healthcare delivery, they also create new dimensions of risk when it comes to cybersecurity. Such standards and policies need to have cybersecurity standards embedded as well. FHIR and APIs.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new report, “ Private Equity Firms Rebrand Prison Healthcare Companies, But Care Issues Continue ,” by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) focuses on healthcare company Wellpath and the regulatory risks that the company continues to take in local jails and prisons. prisons and jails.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2021

– According to new research, patient access was identified by health system leaders as the challenge in healthcare that can be best addressed with telehealth in the coming year. The report finds more than 85% indicated their health system is likely to invest in patient access technology, Report Background. Key Findings.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

This report helps HHS fulfill its mission to improve the health and well-being of Americans while also providing suggestions for how healthcare organizations can stay ahead of the curve to avoid and combat fraud, waste, and abuse. With Medicaid, the challenges are equally formidable.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

The union aims to create an XR therapeutic powerhouse, uniquely capable of addressing both physical and mental health issues. Both companies cover the needs of patients and healthcare systems with a technological, clinical and efficient approach which represents also an outstanding opportunity for the respective shareholders,” says Josep Ll.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2023, OCR settled thirteen cases with healthcare organizations for potential HIPAA violations. HIPAA fines are issued for various reasons and are usually the result of a settlement to end an Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigation. OCR investigates organizations when breaches occur, or there is a complaint by a patient or employee.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 17, 2023

Many factors over the past year have affected how your organization meets its healthcare compliance obligations. Here are four healthcare compliance issues you must have on your radar. One of the most significant changes for healthcare providers will affect telehealth. Public Health Emergency will end on May 11, 2023.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

These are people in want and need of education, a good and secure job, food, safe and clean housing, health care access, and clean water, air, and stable climate (that would be Greta Thunberg holding her sign for a “school strike for the climate”).

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Jackson Lewis

MAY 12, 2022

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) aims to balance the dual policies of (1) ensuring fair and prompt enforcement of rights under employee benefit plans, and (2) encouraging the creation of such plans. Seattle passed such a law in September 2019.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This should come as no surprise given Amazon’s recent acquisitions and the company’s stated ambitions healthcare market. The new service promises to deliver convenience combined with affordability, but Amazon’s latest healthcare venture sets warning bells ringing about patient privacy. Amazon’s Journey into Healthcare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Deloitte has been talking about resilience in leadership across all industries, globally, throughout the pandemic. Deloitte’s Global CEO, addressed four key stakeholder groups for resilience and sustainability: our people/workforce, organizations, society, and leadership’s ability to lead. In July 2020, Punit Renjen.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2022

What You Should Know: – Cricket Health is announcing today that it will merge with Fresenius Health Partners (the value-based care arm of Fresenius), and InterWell Health, to form the nation’s premier, value-based kidney care provider with a totally new model of addressing kidney disease.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

PwC published a well-researched global-reaching report this week appropriately titled, Action required: The urgency of addressing social determinants of health. PwC published a well-researched global-reaching report this week appropriately titled, Action required: The urgency of addressing social determinants of health.

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SQA

AUGUST 2, 2021

That means everyone needs to be speaking the same language and adhering to the same rules. ISO 22000 is an internationally agreed reference in the food industry, and now new guidance has just been published to help users get the most out of it. Published jointly by ISO and the?United

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Health Law RX

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On September 2021, it called out the health app industry for failing to understand the agency’s Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) and for not disclosing its breaches. Apparently dissatisfied with the industry’s response, the agency enforced the HBNR against GoodRx for the first time since the rule was released more than a decade ago.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Where is the iPhone listed on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs?”

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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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