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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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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Bill Of Health

JUNE 13, 2023

Balancing competitiveness with the need for risk prevention, Europe aims to become a major digital player through its AI framework strategy, particularly in the field of digital health. It also takes into account the treaties in force or emerging at the level of the Council of Europe and its 46 Member States.

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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

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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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. Healthcare is no exception.

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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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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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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Personal email, messaging apps, and mobile devices are all other venues for shadow IT to create problems, as clinicians use personal devices and accounts to send information to colleagues. This, in turn, can destroy a hospital’s reputation and even its business.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Health care is delivered through an omnichannel platform accessible to all consumers, tailored for personalization. Quincy has great trust in this health care system, appreciating that customization also takes into account peoples’ values, ethnicities, and clinical needs. to account for ruining our mental health.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JULY 12, 2022

Data available for PCOR research are fragmented across a variety of databases. Available data often collected for payment and treatment purposes. Claims and EHR data, however, may miss significant social determinants of health. Data replication crisis.

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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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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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Triage Health Law

JUNE 20, 2023

CS/CS/SB 264 also amended Florida licensure requirements for qualifying health care providers, obligating licensees to comply with the amended requirements of the Act, particularly as related to the security and storage of personal medical information outside of U.S. health data) to foreign jurisdictions. HIPAA and the Act.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And, after COVID-19 further exposed deeply rooted health disparities across communities, the Quintuple Aim. Achieving health equity is now a primary goal for providers, payers, regulators, and patient advocates seeking to ensure that healthcare is accessible and effective for all.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

million in five years— health IT developers need to take several facts into account while mapping out their API strategy. Another issue is that it could be complicated to use FHIR extensions and profiles, which are necessary to deal with specialty health data, due to their need for deep domain knowledge.

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

During this time, there were no federal regulations protecting health information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the federal law that helps protect your health information. HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules help install these regulations. I’m being facetious.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

One of the biggest byproducts of this change is that organizational data has become ambient. For highly regulated industries like healthcare, cybersecurity and data protection go hand in hand. Being a great team member is being able to hold yourself accountable. The best team leaders are great team members first.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Among those people who do not yet use health apps or wearable tech for health, cost is the top reason they haven’t adopted digital health tools, Morning Consult found. Why do people own and use health wearables? In a distant third place is encouragement in losing or controlling weight (13%).

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the post- Dobbs fight to safeguard reproductive healthcare, a new spotlight has been placed on two existing federal laws: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). . By Katie Gu. Another federal bill introduced by Sen.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And, after COVID-19 further exposed deeply rooted health disparities across communities, the Quintuple Aim. Achieving health equity is now a primary goal for providers, payers, regulators, and patient advocates seeking to ensure that healthcare is accessible and effective for all.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time. In the U.S., 10, 2022.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For example, it could give them greater control over their data security and architecture or they feel they know their data best and can better manage it internally. Whatever the reason, if a startup is looking to develop its own health data platform, there are five factors they must always consider.

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Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2022

States have now imposed new reporting requirements on physicians to document and/or disclose health data of patients seeking abortion care. Law enforcement can now obtain easy access to sensitive health data through a subpoena or court order.

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Bill Of Health

APRIL 4, 2024

Cross-sectoral EU laws First and foremost, the product as a whole must comply with the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and the specific norms incorporated therein, as well as with GDPR requirements and ESG considerations, just to name a few. AI regulation has, for the most part, been sectoral rather than cross-sectoral.

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NASHP

APRIL 25, 2022

States’ drug price transparency programs are effectively analyzing and reporting data — an important tool for informing the public, holding drug supply chain entities accountable for high costs, and identifying potential policy approaches. Understanding the Impact of PBM Regulation.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

After only six digital health raises over $100M across Q3 and Q4 2022 combined, Q1 2023 logged six megadeals from Monogram Health ($375M), ShiftKey ($300M), Paradigm ($203M), ShiftMed ($200M), Gravie ($179M) and Vytalize Health ($100M)—accounting for 40% of the quarter’s total digital health funding.

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Health Business Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Data tokenization by Datavant and HealthVerity enables mixing and matching of disparate sources at the patient level and the generation of valuable clinical and commercial insights. COVID becomes less political.

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Etactics

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Data Analysis and Research Using HCPCS and CPT codes correctly also helps medical researchers collect public health data. Data gathered from this can help inform policy decisions as well as contribute to the bettering of the healthcare industry. Therefore, faster reimbursement!

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Cloud Blogs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In many ways, our field has always been at the forefront of advances in the technologies that improve the movement, management, and analysis of large amounts of health data. At Microsoft, streamlining the flow of health data, including medical imaging data, has been a significant focus of our work over the past few years.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

Given tone and tenor of the day, and particularly among mass population, healthcare may continue to see increasing demands for change and regulation,” Susan Isenberg, Edelman’s head of healthcare, notes in her observations of the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer. What might account for this drop in trust for healthcare providers?

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

High-quality, integrated care requires strong system-level partnerships, information and data sharing, and family-centered practices. Yet, states often face barriers to integrated care including a lack of trust across agencies, privacy regulations that may hinder data sharing, and misaligned eligibility, enrollment, and referral systems.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

in 2017 after accounting for discounts and rebates. a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. billion prescriptions dispensed in 2017, and generic drugs accounted 90% of them. While the use of medicines continues to rise in the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 20, 2023

The TNAP program is designed to accommodate stakeholders that will exchange data, including QHINs, other health information networks, health information exchanges, accountable care organizations, data registries, labs, providers, payers, vendors, and suppliers.

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By Adithi Iyer Last month, President Biden signed an Executive Order mobilizing an all-hands-on-deck approach to the cross-sector regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). One such sector (mentioned, from my search, 33 times) is health/care. But it is certainly eye-catching to see biological security risks join the list.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

By Hannah Rahim Algorithms used in health care have the potential to improve health outcomes but are susceptible to racial bias , which can have detrimental consequences for minority populations. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also begun to consider the regulation of clinical algorithms.

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