The availability of innovative technologies affords us the opportunity to chart a more patient-centric, efficient, and secure path to managing and leveraging PHI.
Clear, a company founded to help travelers breeze through airport security lines, is now pursuing partnerships with health systems. Georgia-based Wellstar Health System recently announced it will use the company's identity verification technology to give patients secure and seamless access to their personal health information.
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
"An IT security issue” has been impacting several of CommonSpirit Health's facilities across the country. Some of its hospitals in Nebraska, Iowa and Washington have taken their EHRs offline due to the incident. Experts say the incident serves as an important reminder that providers need to go all in on cybersecurity, as healthcare organizations remain a prime target for hackers.
The HHS' information blocking rule goes into effect Monday, and for nearly a year, providers and IT vendors have been racing to prepare. But they have faced several hurdles along the way, including figuring out how to handle scenarios that could make them non-compliant.
The HHS has proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule — the biggest in seven years, a healthcare lawyer said. But while the changes aim to improve information sharing, they could also bring about challenges for providers and payers.
"Sharing of privately posted personal health information violates the law, but this serious problem with Facebook’s privacy implementation also presents an ongoing risk of death or serious injury to Facebook users," a recently released FTC complaint reads.
The problem, according to researchers, is not fitness trackers themselves, but privacy regulations woefully unprepared to deal with the new types of data being produced, collected and analyzed.
Called the Health Record Request Wizard, the tool streamlines the process patients go through when they want to request their medical records.
Orig3n has entered what appears to be a national (and perhaps international) contest to quarterback the biggest, baddest, bestest genetic database on earth
The information derived from Levi's jeans could power a tool that tracks and inspires improved physical health of Americans across the country.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.