If patient information is necessary for AI, what challenges to privacy does AI present? Although it poses a risk to de-identification, from a different perspective it can also create the ability to construct new means of de-identifying data.
A unified and secure communications platform can help providers stay compliant while enabling patients to exchange medical information through text or social media messaging, the preferred communications for most young people.
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
At HIMSS, retired Brigadier General Greg Touhill, who served as the inaugural U.S. chief information security officer under President Barack Obama, offered insight on how hospitals and healthcare organizations can keep data safe.
In the digital era, researchers are working with tech companies to monitor how people interact with the digital world to better understand their mood, cognition, and behavior, but there are challenges, including ethical issues.
Whether you’re in product security, an R&D engineer or part of information security, there are five critical considerations to heed when implementing industry-leading practices.
There are a lot of questions to consider when it comes to geofencing and healthcare. Geofencing involves using GPS and other means target people for a marketing campaign.
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
The first statement that will likely catch an organization’s attention is the window of time in which a response must be provided — 14 days following the organization’s receipt of the letter and that time will fly by.
Ann Waldo, who runs a boutique law firm specializing in privacy law, health policy and data strategy for digital health companies, took part in a discussion on navigating regulatory hurdles in digital health at Health Datapalooza this week.
"Current privacy laws like HIPAA don't protect us. The privacy protections we have don't match the real-world privacy risks," cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier said in a newly released video from TEDMED 2016.
Here's a short list for healthcare providers to reference when deciding if your healthcare operations comply with HIPAA regulatory requirements.
In a recent interview, Esperion president and CEO, Sheldon Koenig talks about the reality of statin intolerance and his company’s expansion into new diseases
Pharmacies have continued to be hit with OCR investigations and massive fines for breaches of protected health information.
Aside from the current congressional logjam, gridlock or whatever your preferred metaphor may be, consider the fact that we are now embarking upon the general election season, which tends to add an additional layer of grandstanding and substantive paralysis to the usual fever dreams of the Potomac.
Too often in the American healthcare system, patients are the first to be blamed for rising costs, and wellness programs are implemented as a cost-saving measure.
Among the charges was that Yorkville Endoscopy Medical Director Dr. Lawrence Cohen took a selfie with Rivers while she was under anesthesia.
TMZ said that doctors gave Prince treatment “typically administered to counteract the effects of an opiate.” TMZ has since reported that the treatment was given by EMTs in response to a Percocet overdose.