HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – The healthcare industry is poised for a seismic shift, powered by a disruptive technology: blockchain, according to the market.us, the Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market report. This translates to enhanced security and peace of mind for both patients and healthcare providers.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 18, 2024

Jay Anders, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Medicomp Systems Healthcare is on the cusp of a transformative era, with artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) demonstrating remarkable potential in streamlining clinical documentation, quality measurement, and medical coding.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What makes this situation especially complex and troubling is that the healthcare organizations themselves may not have been aware that the Meta Pixel Tool had been embedded in its website and/or that it was tracking, comparing, and receiving data about patients, including PHI.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Chris Bowen, founder and CISO at ClearDATA In healthcare, sensitive data comes with great responsibility. For companies entrusted with managing and protecting patients’ personal information, ensuring the privacy of that data must be the highest priority.

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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. Like what you hear?

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 30, 2024

Gutierrez Vo also said CNA demands that workers and unions be involved "at every step of the development of data-driven technologies and be empowered to decide whether and how AI is deployed in the workplace." The program uses predictive analytics and automates an hourly analysis of hospital patients' electronic health data.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

"Congress should urge OCR to withdraw the rule immediately," AHA said in its response to a request for information on data privacy and HIPAA. The association said the rule has resulted in consequences that contravene OCR's efforts to encourage hospitals to share non-private healthcare information with the public.

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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 Rise in IoT Healthcare Devices. Consumer Healthcare Data Integration Challenges.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

The US health system is in a desperate cybersecurity state of affairs. Another healthcare cyberattack has made the news and it’s a big one. UnitedHealth Group’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, is currently facing an ongoing ransomware attack which has reverberated through healthcare systems and affected prescription deliveries.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr. What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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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. Only three entities were related to healthcare (the brown dots). style GDPR?

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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.

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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. healthcare. Patients are an essential source of outcome data, yet patient-generated data is still rarely included in quality measures, capitated care contracts or reimbursement decisions.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The recent enforcement of new rules to encourage the freer flow of healthcare data mainly through application programming interfaces (APIs) has jolted providers and payers into action to meet interoperability standards. To contribute to and benefit from the healthcare API market—which is globally estimated to be worth $277.4

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2022

Shawna Koch Mishael, Head of Healthcare and Biomedical, RN, MBA, SenecaGlobal. This year’s HIMSS Conference offered some exciting insights and a renewed focus on data-sharing and interoperability. – Take note of how organizations like Health Level Seven (HL7) are approaching and helping to launch interoperable solutions.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2023

Rajesh Sharma, Vice President and General Manager of Systems Integration, Data Analytics and Interoperability Product Offerings, Gainwell Technologies The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has laid the critical groundwork to create a connected healthcare system in which patients, providers, and payers can easily exchange information.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Here, healthcare is evolving toward a Single Market in the EU. When I’m in the UK later this week, I’ll address the challenge for the UK, Brexit and the National Health Service. Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the sharing of health information is a delicate balance, especially when it comes to teenagers. THE PROBLEM Patient portals facilitate efficient sharing of health information between patients, their families and healthcare providers.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2024

QHINs were created as part of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) , a set of regulations designed to improve healthcare interoperability by establishing standards and infrastructure to ease data exchange among key stakeholders such as providers, payers, and their information technology partners.

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Health Business Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Two years into COVID-19, I’m ready to hazard a few guesses about what lies ahead for healthcare. Cybersecurity threats in healthcare get bigger and scarier. Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Climate change becomes a major healthcare issue.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2024

The uptick in data breaches and cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry correlates to the number of internet-connected and insecure technology facilities are adopting. Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center and the Office of Information Security, the frequency of healthcare data breaches has trended upward since 2012.

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NCQA

JUNE 11, 2024

NCQA’s comment on the pivotal ONC USCDI+ Behavioral Health draft dataset was supportive and offered actionable feedback to improve: Data element completeness and specificity. Ease of data exchange to enhance behavioral healthcare quality and reporting. Data interoperability. What happens next?

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

Like many healthcare systems around the world, New Zealand’s healthcare system is also under immense pressure, plagued by clinician burnout, patient dissatisfaction, and rising costs. Patients echo these concerns, with 35% expressing worries about clinicians' limited access to their relevant health data.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. Though healthcare organizations have historically been slower to adopt cloud, we’re now seeing renewed interest. But first – why has healthcare lagged other industries in cloud adoption?

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The stories: 4 future health care worlds for 2030 My goal for this post and for the AHIP panel is to brainstorm what the person’s health care experience would be in each of these four worlds. Privacy laws have evolved on a national basis that have used the Washington State Privacy Law, the My Health My Data Act of 2023.

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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. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org.

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p3care

JULY 2, 2023

Likewise, the healthcare sector is no exception to this trend. Healthcare practices find it difficult to handle significant PHI in their systems. Therefore, they need reliable and secure means to gather, store, and share this data. These guidelines guarantee the safe access, sharing, and use of electronic health information.

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Lexis Nexis

JUNE 6, 2022

Unlocking patient data is instrumental to your success, whether you are a healthcare provider, health IT vendor, or payer. The 21st Century Cures Act , passed in 2016, granted greater visibility and importance to interoperability by promoting patient control, more informed decision-making, and more efficient healthcare systems.

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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. Manion, ConsenSys Health. ConsenSys Health worked directly with the Intel SGX team using synthetic health data to run this proof of concept.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 13, 2023

It eases the administrative burden on doctors, helps in the allocation of healthcare resources, and improves the quality of diagnosis. 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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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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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Lexis Nexis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

With approximately 30% of the world’s data coming from the healthcare industry, LexisNexis Risk Solutions harnesses that data, contextualizes it, and converts it into meaningful insights. We all deserve better health, and tokenization has an instrumental role in making that happen,” shared Jeff.

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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and transform with providers facing increasing financial burdens and dynamic patient expectations, Signify Research has had the opportunity to speak to 100s of C-suite health IT executives and departmental decision-makers.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 30, 2018

Its initial offering is limited to a handful of health care systems, and the data collected and placed in the palms of our hands is PHR data, not full EHR data, as some outlets had reported, but the rollout has certainly engaged the commentariat in a deep dive into the pros and cons of Apple’s latest move in the healthcare sphere.

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