HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new examination of patient perspectives on health data privacy illustrates unresolved tension over the eroding security and confidentiality of personal health information in a wired society and economy. This concern is magnified with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. .

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data. Laws and regulations are only a starting point for successful digital transformations. In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Health groups must start sharing health information electronically as regulators seek to make it easier for consumers to access their health data. But groups warn they’re not prepared to meet the deadline.

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Geek Doctor

MAY 5, 2021

The challenges involved in keeping patient and consumer health data private may seem daunting. As of April 5, 2021, the law now requires that providers, health care information networks, and technology developers give the public friction-free access to and control of their health data through apps.

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Triage Health Law

MAY 18, 2021

On June 1, SPB Partner Elliot Golding and other industry experts will co-present on the ABA Webinar: Got Data?: How the Health Data Rules are Changing.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. They believe that users can be easily identified. Will Americans benefit from a U.S.-style

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As EHRs have become more ubiquitous and comprehensive over the past two decades, regulators and organizations have become more conscious of the need to protect the privacy and security of this sensitive and confidential information.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The opportunity to impact the healthcare outcomes of populations via SDOH lays in the ability "to incorporate unstructured, non-traditional health data into the patient record," he wrote for Healthcare IT News during the pandemic. SDOH data is a matter of interoperability , as it is often intentionally trapped.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

AHA, however, noted two specific issues that "would benefit from congressional attention" – OCR's December rule regarding the use of online tracking tools and the various state privacy regulations that pile on HIPAA.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 20, 2022

Still, experts say that network-wide availability of patient-generated health data is still lacking. How can patient-generated data help inform regulatory decision-making and impact innovation in care delivery?

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 13, 2023

A fragmented legal landscape of Medical AI Currently, there is no specific legal regulation of medical AI in Europe. At the EU level, the GDPR guarantees the right to protection of personal data and allows the processing of sensitive health data under certain conditions. 114 TFEU; only the GDPR is based on art.16

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 12, 2024

. – This case highlights the importance of protecting patient data in the digital health industry. Whistleblower Aid’s call to action urges the FTC to enforce existing regulations and ensure that vulnerable individuals seeking addiction treatment can do so without fear of privacy violations. Monument Inc.’s

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2024

Empowered Patients, Streamlined Processes: Patients regain control over their health data with blockchain. Global Giants Embracing Healthcare Blockchain Europe leads the charge with a 33% market share, fueled by advanced healthcare infrastructure and data protection regulations like GDPR.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Namely, legal protections concerning personal health data may not apply when the entity offering the service is decidedly not a “provider.” To illustrate the issue, consider that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) expressly covers genetic information as a form of health data.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Newly enacted laws continue the trends of supporting state efforts to assess prescription drug affordability and regulating the practices of Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Washington’s budget required the Washington Health Care Authority to develop a reporting requirement for 340B-covered entities. million for just 72 drugs.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2022

When it comes to your health and treatment, hospitals leverage a variety of sensors and instruments to collect the necessary information to monitor and diagnose your health status. The opportunities are seemingly endless, but what are the challenges associated with unlocking this type of health data for the consumer market?

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

Compounding the issue, 49% of New Zealand clinicians report that medical technologies within their departments do not seamlessly integrate with each other, necessitating manual data input. Patients echo these concerns, with 35% expressing worries about clinicians' limited access to their relevant health data.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 22, 2023

By taking a minimalist approach to data collection, companies not only reduce the amount of sensitive information at risk but also simplify data management. This approach aligns with the principle of data minimization, a key aspect of privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and HIPAA.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Additionally, a legal requirement mandates most California hospitals to comply with this regulation by January 31, 2024. The implementation of a free, bi-directional ADT exchange facilitated by Manifest MedEx eliminates financial obstacles for DxF participants and simplifies the mandated data sharing process.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Tom Liddell, Harmony Healthcare IT CEO Rules and regulations protecting consumer data often burden businesses, no matter your industry. These safeguards become even more demanding as consumers and government agencies call for increased transparency and access to personal data.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

. “It is ironic,” they write, “that although patients (and their physicians) still have difficulty obtaining complete medical record information in a timely fashion, the HIPAA Privacy Rule permits massive troves of patients digital health data to traverse the medical-industrial complex unmonitored and unregulated.”

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

"Compliance with federal regulations, such as the 21st Century Cures Act, and state-specific consent and confidentiality laws for adolescents requires a reliable mechanism to share protected health information with adolescents without guardian knowledge," said the researchers.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

"Investing in the technical work to create a nuanced approach to health information sharing is not just a necessity, it's an opportunity," she continued. "It's an opportunity to revolutionize the way we handle teen health data, ensuring both teens and their guardians have appropriate access to the information they need."

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 7, 2021

" One of the major reasons clinical trial-matching and recruitment is so slow is that it's largely limited by laws and regulations related to patient privacy. ConsenSys Health worked directly with the Intel SGX team using synthetic health data to run this proof of concept. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity.

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 4, 2023

On April 27, 2023, the state of Washington enacted a landmark privacy law aimed at protecting the privacy of health data not covered by HIPAA. This law, named the “ My Health My Data Act ,” covers a very wide range of entities, consumers, and data. It also contains a private right of action.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 4, 2022

Fortune 50 companies already use Replica’s technology to enable fast and effective access to high utility, synthetic versions of health data across their organizations while meeting regulatory obligations and compliance with privacy laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the U.S.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

By supporting decision-making on the development, authorisation and surveillance of medicines, a wide range of stakeholders will benefit, from patients and healthcare professionals to health technology assessment bodies and the pharmaceutical industry. Arlett et al. The DARWIN EU advisory board members are listed here.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What You Should Know: – Integral , an innovator in safeguarding privacy and maximizing data quality raises $6.9M in seed funding to protect sensitive health data and provide automated expert certification software that enables health and life sciences companies access to compliant, rich, de-identified data in hours, rather than months.

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Triage Health Law

JUNE 20, 2023

Although HIPAA does not impose specific requirements regarding where health data must be stored, the amendments to the Act require qualifying health care providers in Florida to only store health records in the U.S., health data) to foreign jurisdictions. its territories, or Canada. HIPAA and the Act.

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p3care

JULY 2, 2023

These guidelines guarantee the safe access, sharing, and use of electronic health information. Therefore, the EHRs must adhere to the regulations to receive voluntary certification. Thus, a MIPS-qualified registry must also be an ONC-certified health IT vendor for MIPS 2023.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

I noted the Yin-and-Yang-and the Blur of this health data ecosystem in 2013 when I attended CES, HIMSS and South-by-Southwest in a matter of weeks, kicking tires on digital health developments at all three events. What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 18, 2021

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) health apps, such as apps that manage our diet, fitness, and sleep, are becoming ubiquitous in our digital world. These apps provide a window into some of the key issues in the world of digital health — including data privacy, data access, data ownership, bias, and the regulation of health technology.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Most, if not all, privacy and data protection laws, whether HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, or others, include similar requirements: provide appropriate privacy and security safeguards, provide individuals with certain rights related to their data, and provide notification when there has been a breach.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

The first RFI to issue was the one seeking input on the regulations implementing the Stark law and the federal anti-kickback statute (See: Stark and AKS RFI and public comments ). The original HIPAA regulations were drafted by HHS in the absence of any particular statutory framework. Hey, coordinated care is a good idea.

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