HIT Consultant

JUNE 10, 2022

In April, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf laid out areas of challenge and opportunity when it comes to improving health outcomes, restoring public trust in science, and making the most of our ongoing investments in data analytics and clinical research. Wang, Chief Medical Officer of COTA, Inc.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 8, 2025

And these AI agents arent just providing quick answerstheyre offering compassionate, real-time support all while adhering to privacy laws like HIPAA. Health information is uniquely sensitive, often containing life-altering details that require the utmost confidentiality and compliance with regulations such as HIPAA. The result?

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Revolutionizing Mental Health Care: Yung Sidekick’s AI-Powered Automation and Progress Tracking Feature Yung Sidekick is an AI-driven platform designed to streamline administrative tasks for mental health professionals, enabling them to focus on client care rather than documentation.

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Compliancy Group

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Bringing about positive health outcomes depends significantly on sharing protected health information (PHI) with other doctors, facilities, and insurers. Understanding the HIPAA rules and the security steps to take can help protect patient information and maintain EMR compliance.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

By leveraging ClearDATA’s CyberHealth platform, Send Mammogram has been able to go beyond the standards of HIPAA and HITRUST compliance for patients and providers, according to the announcement. " THE LARGER TREND.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

They can reduce lines in hospital waiting rooms, streamline checkups and enable fast, personalized treatments for improved health outcomes. Cyberattacks against health care are an increasingly frequent problem — 2023 saw the highest number of data breaches and the most leaked information on record.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This means many people may not even know they have health issues professionals could resolve. Additionally, emojis might also make health care seem more fun , which some investors and physicians believe could improve health outcomes. Importantly, within any advertisements, medical institutions should follow the Stark Law.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 18, 2024

Millenson The latest draft government strategic plan for health information technology pledges to support health information sharing among individuals, health care providers and others “so that they can make informed decisions and create better health outcomes.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2020

ChristianaCare this week announced the launch of its Home Care Coach, a HIPAA-eligible Alexa Skill aimed at meeting the needs of home health patients. "By leveraging this technology, we are creating a new model of care within patients’ homes to support the best health outcomes possible."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2022

It would expand access to employer-sponsored health benefits by classifying telehealth as an excepted benefit. "For rural communities in particular, telemedicine has helped remove barriers to care, expand access to specialists, and improve health outcomes. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Healthcare privacy laws in the United States are due an update to bring them into the modern age to ensure individually identifiable health information is protected no matter how it is collected and shared. The Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act was introduced by Sens. HIPAA must be updated for the modern day.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Writers also flagged the HIPAA flexibilities around telehealth. "Failure to explicitly account for people with disability in the design, implementation, and policy dimensions of telehealth will lead to further marginalization and poor health outcomes for the more than 61 million Americans with disabilities," they said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

The HHS Office for Civil Rights resolved 11 investigations as part of its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative , issuing fines ranging from $3,500 for a Massachusetts psychiatric consultant to $240,000 for the 17-hospital Memorial Hermann Health System. “It

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2019

“For me, the greatest driving factor here is providing support to ensure the best health outcome. It’s a very proactive approach to support the consumer in getting the best health outcomes and to reducing medication waste.” ” Start with the medication being prescribed by the doctor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Demirel: Telementoring leads to optimised health outcomes with expertise sharing and rich collaboration. It does not only support the health worker safety, but also pave the way for a well-informed decision, serving the essential goal of optimised patient care and improved clinical outcomes.

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Verisys

MARCH 6, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Enforces regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to ensure patient data privacy and security. In another case, Californias Providence Medical Institute was fined $240,000 for violating HIPAA Security Rules, which led to a data breach.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

–Unveiled at the companys annual customer conference, Xccelerate 2025, the launch aligns with Innovaccers vision to help organizations to advance health outcomes. Security and compliance remain a priority, with Agents of Care adhering to industry-leading standards, including NIST CSF, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

There are several ways in which regulatory relaxations have allowed telemedicine to soar during the pandemic: HIPAA flexibility, telemedicine waivers through CMS, cost-sharing, and billing and reimbursement changes. There will be lost opportunities for patients to achieve the health outcomes they are motivated to or need to obtain.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

RIN 0945-AA22: A Game-Changer for ePHI Protection The HHS has introduced RIN 0945-AA22, a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, to enhance the protection of electronic protected health information (ePHI). Now is the time to act.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

Salesforce Health Cloud introduced a suite of new technologies this past week designed for remote patient monitoring, connected health, medication management and more. WHY IT MATTERS. The tool also integrates with RxNorm to link clinical drug vocabularies across multiple pharmacy management and drug interaction platforms.

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COVID-19 Health Outcomes HIPAA Hospitals 154

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2023

Healthcare organizations can now effectively assert too many of the mandated provisions of the HIPAA Security Rule by undertaking annual SOC 2 assessments by an auditor. But the full value of SOC 2 can only be realized if it is built upon an effective HIPAA compliance program. SOC2 for Healthcare Organizations.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2021

– Papa and Uber are working together to mitigate social isolation and negative health outcomes among Medicare and Medicaid recipients as well as those with employer health plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2024

Regulatory Frameworks and Compliance Challenges Globally, healthcare data privacy is governed by stringent regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the United States and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. million in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This includes setting robust data governance policies to meet privacy regulations set forth by HIPAA and GDPR. Assessing data readiness is another critical step—evaluating data quality, accessibility, and any integration or security gaps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These platforms are HIPAA compliant and offer integration with devices and EMRs. Integration with EMR: While EMRs are part of the technology infrastructure in any health system, integrating wearable data from devices into the EMR can help physicians maintain data continuity with the initial in-person visit recorded in the EMR.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 1, 2023

38% of respondents believe AI will lead to better health outcomes, such as faster diagnosis and treatment, with 33% of respondents believing AI would result in worse health outcomes. 27% of respondents said they didn’t think AI would make much difference to patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2024

Efficient RCM helps medical practices deliver top-notch, personalized care that improves the well-being and health outcomes of patients and their communities. Sometimes, this means outsourcing and implementing a revenue cycle solution (RCS) through a third-party vendor. Is It Time to Seek Help?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

of the total market share due to increased adoption to manage chronic conditions and monitor health outcomes. OpenLoop White-Label Telehealth Solutions OpenLoop was founded with the mission to expand access to care and improve community health outcomes. Additionally, telehealth services hold 45.7%

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) today announced the acquisition of ScalaMed, a HIPAA-compliant, smart platform that transfers prescriptions directly to patients via a secure mobile app. The acquisition transfers ScalaMed’s technology and assets to Outcomes™, a Cardinal Health company. About ScalaMed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2024

These resources ensure that patients understand how to use their devices correctly and effectively, which is critical for achieving desired health outcomes. For example, in our collaboration with Axena Health, we ensure patients prescribed the Leva Pelvic Health System receive thorough guidance on its use.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 17, 2023

USCDI v3 will increase the amount and types of data that can be used and exchanged through health IT to capture more comprehensive and complete patient characteristics reflective of patient diversity, which will help to address disparities in health outcomes and help providers identify gaps in care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To improve health outcomes while lowering cost of care, providers and payors increasingly are implementing value-based care (VBC) payment models. VBC contracts are structured to reward proactive and preventive healthcare, measurable positive outcomes (such as lower readmission rates) and reduced spending.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In addition to gathering feedback from surveys and online reviews, healthcare organizations can use voice and speech analytics to securely transcribe and analyze phone calls, video, emails, live chat and SMS conversations in compliance with HIPAA to identify additional trends and areas of concern. #4:

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

When these models are asked a question with complex and specific word choices, the response may lack both true reasoning power and accuracy, proving potentially detrimental to a patient’s health. Only 38% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The lack of hardware or sensors and the overall affordability of the solution translates to increased patient access, greater adherence to recommended MSK treatment pathways, and better clinical outcomes. The MSK-OS™ connects clinicians and patients through a HIPAA-compliant cloud-based digital platform.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

Each title includes a health status assessment with scoring logic and tailored calls to action, along with a dashboard offering HIPAA-compliant access to member performance metrics. Across different specialties and conditions, assessments help members understand personal risk factors and determine actionable next steps.

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