Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

MAY 17, 2024

An update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is now underway with new cybersecurity requirements. The latest data show a 93% increase in large breaches (from 369 to 712) reported from 2018 to 2022. HIPAA privacy requirements may be violated through data collection and its usage. “As

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart. The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018. Tech companies? In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

On 1st March 2018, two over-arching issues remained with me leaving Las Vegas and #HIMSS18: the central, recognized role of cybersecurity threats in healthcare, and the growing use of consumer-facing technologies for self- and virtual care. What a difference a couple of weeks make…. billion active monthly accounts.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The use cases for health care must wrestle with HIPAA and other privacy laws that may be relevant for a particular medical situation or patient population.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil […]. When organizations factor in the loss of productivity, the amount of civil complaints and fines levied, plus the public relations besmirching, the cost implications skyrocket.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 bn and MGM Studios for $8.5 The PillPack (pharmacy) buy was $1 billion. State pharmacy licenses with the deal.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

40, published April 2018. On March 29, 2018, Under Armour’s announcement that about 150 million users of My Fitness Pal had their personal information breached in March is a specific consumer health wake-up call.

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Mobius MD

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

AI medical scribes also adhere to HIPAA standards, ensuring patient data stays safe. HIPAA compliance is critical for any AI tool used in clinical settings. Research from 2018 found that automated speech recognition software used by doctors produced an error rate of 7.4%.

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DrChrono

JULY 16, 2018

July 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Stitch, a company that has created a free HIPAA-compliant app for healthcare teams to send internal messages, communicate with patients and track daily tasks.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

adults 18 and over in May-June 2018. Today, that e-script could be communicated by doctor, pharmacist, nurse, or other health care professional via a text message sent with a Medscape or JAMA article , or a recipe emailed (via HIPAA-compliant secure portal, of course) from a dietitian’s website. KRC Research polled 1,700 U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

Ford received medical services at Sandhills in 2018 but ceased being a patient of Sandhills before the November ransomware attack. The post Supreme Court Declines Petition to Take on Data Breach Case Against South Carolina FQHC appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. The link will take you to the Request, and input will be accepted until 31 May 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture. need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? Does the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2018

But trust comes before sharing, and Americans’ trust in institutions is eroding even more quickly in 2018. I observed eroding trust in healthcare earlier this year in the 2018 the Edelman Trust Barometer. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This week’s revelations about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

consumers’ views on personalized medicine comes from a survey conducted for PMC, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and GenomeWeb , published in May 2018. This picture of U.S. Privacy points to patients’ fundamental right to it, balanced with data availability for research.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. To that end, it is interesting to note that Amazon is seeking a privacy professional experienced with HIPAA.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows. PS — For more insights into Epic, see a New York Times article published December 23, 2018, titled, “Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.” health care. Out-of-network costs?

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

The biggest drops in confidence between 2018 and 2021 occurred with peoples’ trust in Facebook, Amazon, and Google above other institutions. Technology companies had garnered high trust until the past few years, with a sentinel event for downfall in the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event in 2018.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Rock Health’s 2018 survey reinforces what we know-we know about consumers’ willingness to share health data — and that is that the physician, above all health care entities, is the patient’s most trusted data steward. These findings are based on Rock Health’s survey of some 4,000 U.S.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

Read more about this in our blog 4 steps to reduce HIPAA breaches within your medical practice. In 2024, the industry will witness a heightened emphasis on robust cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive patient data from cyber threats. The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR ) reports a rise in cyber incidents within the healthcare sector.

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Doximity

APRIL 19, 2021

First of all, if you are trying to contact a patient to communicate with them about recent test results, or maybe you just want to connect with them about a new medication you've prescribed, you can go onto Doximity’s app and click on the Dialer feature to call them in a HIPAA secure way. In fact, 42.4%

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

Fast forward to 2018, and Fitbit’s blog posted about women’s health tracking, using the words “menstruation,” “period,” and “sexual health.” In 2018, several direct-to-consumer fertility-tech companies garnered $million funding to begin commercializing and scaling their products.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was legislated in 1996, isn’t sufficiently robust to deal with the nature of this health information 23 years after that law was first implemented. What did Ciitizen learn from this process? Deven McGraw is Ciitizen’s Chief Regulatory Officer. [In Why is this so important?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES. Philips is also expanding tele-dentistry this year , being honored at CES 2021 for this program that connects consumers to dentists which has been especially useful in the COVID-19 pandemic. Sleep-as-medicine for all ages.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. Would you have thought about your health care record’s stewardship for a second when you were at your health care provider 15 years ago, hastily signing a HIPAA form? This puts a particularly fine point on the importance of understanding what’s driving the reaction. Not really.

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Arkenea

MARCH 5, 2025

A statistic from a 2018 Harris Poll on behalf of Stanford Medicine survey revealed that more than half (59%) of the primary care providers believed their EHR system needed a major overhaul. It’s essentially the process of tweaking an EHR system’s features to fulfill a healthcare facility’s unique requirements.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2025

Health Fitness Corporation, an Illinois business associate, has agreed to settle an alleged HIPAA risk analysis failure with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Health Fitness Corporation (Health Fitness) is a provider of wellness plans to clients across the United States and a business associate under HIPAA. 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A).

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

These figures are commonly used as placeholders to meet the reporting requirements of the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule. Geographical Distribution of February 2025 Healthcare Data Breaches Large healthcare data breaches were reported by HIPAA-regulated entities in 25 U.S. Warby Parker Inc., Warby Parker Inc.,

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It has been several years since new HIPAA regulations have been signed into law, but HIPAA changes in 2022 are expected. The last update to the HIPAA Rules was the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in 2013, which introduced new requirements mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

in 2016 was foreign-born, this JAMA article published in December 2018 attested. For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do.

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The HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The shared screenshot showed Ginsburg’s name, treatments, and treatment dates between 2014 and 2018. The post Organ Transplant Coordinator Gets 2-Year Jail Term for Illegally Accessing Health Records of Supreme Court Judge appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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