Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Social determinants of health – the food, shelter and security attributes of patients that exist outside of care settings – contribute disproportionate risks for disease, hospital readmissions and a lack of access to quality healthcare among vulnerable populations, including people on Medicare.

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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. million for a healthcare data breach , even before making a ransom payment. Today, victimized U.S.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The plaintiff alleged that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was using its Pixel tracking technology to access patient information from websites and portals of hospitals and health systems for targeted marketing. What about the ways companies like Meta are working with hospitals and health systems, more generally?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2024

Blockchain provides a standardized platform, breaking down silos and facilitating seamless information exchange between hospitals, labs, and doctors. Empowered Patients, Streamlined Processes: Patients regain control over their health data with blockchain.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2024

It’s no secret the healthcare industry amasses a fortune of personally identifiable information (PII) and health data. Despite longstanding privacy and security regulations, hackers are often successful. In 2017, the regulator warned the radio-frequency-enabled devices manufactured by St. Jude Medical had a critical flaw.

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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

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. However, meaningful, actionable data from these disparate sources is not aggregated and therefore cannot be correlated.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Revolutionizing Healthcare Communication with Free ADT Exchange ADTs, which stand for Admission, Discharge, and Transfer notifications, are concise electronic messages typically dispatched by either a hospital or a Skilled Nursing Facility’s (SNF) electronic health record (EHR) system.

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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). Covered entities must also report aggregate data about payments to contract pharmacies. The report found pre-rebate savings of $146.7 million for just 72 drugs.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Matching patients to clinical trials they are eligible for has been a major challenge for everyone from pharmaceutical companies to hospitals. Finding the right matches based on certain health records and demographic eligibility is difficult and time-consuming. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Across hospital settings, IT infrastructure has not kept pace with ultrasound innovation. Despite the many benefits of POCUS, the opportunity for wider implementation is hindered because today’s POCUS tools do not seamlessly integrate with existing hospital IT infrastructure.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2023

– Founded in 2015, OpenTelehealth is a universal cloud-based remote patient monitoring platform that enables patients to measure health data at home, using an app and a wide range of medical measurement devices. Doctors can view patient data on a web portal.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The most trusted source of health information continues to be “my” physician, followed by “any” physician, then friends and family, and hospital-health plan-and pharmacy websites. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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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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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

The ONC’s December announcement noted that five organizations have been officially designated as QHINs after undergoing a rigorous onboarding process: MedAllies, eHealth Exchange, Epic Nexus, Health Gorilla, and KONZA. hospitals and tens of thousands of providers and process billions of annual transactions across all 50 states, ONC stated.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Passed in 1986, EMTALA requires hospitals accepting Medicaid or Medicare payments from HHS or CMS to provide abortion care necessary to address emergency medical conditions. Because most hospitals rely on Medicaid and Medicare payments, the law currently applies to nearly all hospitals in the U.S. CMS EMTALA Guidance .

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2022

Longitudinal medical data shows trends over time and can chart the best course of action for current or future treatments to advance care, ultimately saving patient lives. Healthcare data is one of the strongest assets available to improve care, but regulation and privacy laws are often used as an excuse to limit access.

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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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2024

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the American Hospital Association , stolen credentials are one of the most common intrusion methods used by hackers, with login information often being acquired through minimal means.

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Health Business Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Hospital-based health systems are trying to be consumer-centric, but few are succeeding. Here I’m writing from personal experience in Boston, including a recent consumer nightmare that was resolved only when the CEOs of my health plan and hospital agreed to intervene.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Congress’s expansion of access to telehealth takes steps to ensure continuity of care for Medicare beneficiaries and provides regulators with additional time to determine which flexibilities will become permanent, indicating a success for the telehealth industry as well as a reminder that there is more legislation to come.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2023

In recognition of the procedural burden our existing processes and systems exact, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has encouraged states to use all available strategies to streamline redeterminations and prevent eligible enrollees from losing coverage due to procedural issues.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 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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Lexis Nexis

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A: RWD can provide a more holistic view of a patient’s health, but today’s RWD is incomplete, often restricted to only a fraction of a patient’s story.To It’s certainly a tall order when the data we need is scattered across siloed systems and guarded by applicable and necessary patient privacy regulations.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

“Healthcare is at a crossroads, facing unprecedented pressure and disruption — including affordability challenges, shifting patient expectations, and an increasing deluge of health data,” said Tim Durst, a managing director at Accenture who leads the global medical technology sector in the company’s Life Sciences practice.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations. Social media companies rank at the bottom of this trust-roster, and.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In place of “government,” you might use the words “hospital” or “health insurance” or “drug company.” .” If you’ve been a patient facing a diagnosis of an illness, whether rare or common, you may well have felt these various feelings stirring inside your self.

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Sheppard Health Law

JUNE 22, 2023

This report will provide recommendations to reduce prescription drug costs and regulate PBMs. It also requires the Comptroller to study the feasibility of centralizing state-wide contracts to consolidate the purchasing of drugs by state agencies, state hospitals, state-operated mental health authorities, and other public entities.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, anything ranging from a patient’s personal health information (PHI) to a clinician or doctor’s digital identity is a lot more vulnerable to cyberattacks. With industry leaders focused on compliance, regulation, and security, this understandably makes healthcare leaders hesitant to adopt these technologies.

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