Physicians Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A rebuttal to a 2019 article on HIPAA.

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The HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance Through HIPAA Security 2024 conference after a 5-year absence. It is one of the most common reasons for individuals filing complaints with OCR.

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The HIPAA Journal

JULY 3, 2024

A Seattle, WA, plastic surgery practice has been ordered to pay a financial penalty of $5 million to the Office of the Washington Attorney General to resolve alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Washington Consumer Protection Act (CPA), and the federal Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA).

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

While connected fitness was gauged in 2019, the other three categories were new to the 2021 study. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. But will HIPAA protect American patients in this world of AI, Big Data velocity and volume, and persistent social check-ins? 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. This week, Health 2.0

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows. This is continued evidence that in 2019 and the near-term future, Amazon continues to “prime” consumers for experience.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Apria Healthcare, an Indianapolis-based provider of home healthcare equipment and related services, has agreed to pay $6,400,000 to resolve all claims related to data breaches in 2019 and 2021 that affected 1,869,598 individuals. In April 2019, hackers gained access to parts of its network where employee and patient data were stored.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

But even trust in the most trusted steward, my doctor, eroded between 2019 and 2020. To the issue of trusting my doctor to keep my information secure, the survey found a decline from 89% trusting my doctor in 2019 to 83% in 2020. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

adults 18 and over in September 2019. In 2019, few health care providers have adopted voice assistants into their workflows. The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The study polled 1,004 U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2019

And now in 2019, we see that we were right. By Michael Dunlop Cloud technology application in healthcare is not new. Back in 2015, we created a post on cloud usage in healthcare, where we researched this topic and predicted that we will see the growth of this industry. Let us see what as changed […].

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

adults 18 and older via phone in July 2019. See the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll data from April 2019 in this last chart for that insight. Health information breaches are driving health care providers in 2019 and ongoing to investment more resources, both financial and labor, to deal with cybersecurity.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 24, 2020

However, despite these obvious advantages, 2019 saw an abysmally low […]. By Jay Eisenstock, principal, JE Consulting and WEDI board chair. Virtual visits help providers increase productivity by adding revenue and reducing travel to different clinical settings.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2019

There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations. On February 27, 2019, the U.S. This law shares many elements with the GDPR.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

For context, I re-visited a similar recent study on this topic, published in the November/December 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, looking at national trends in primary care visit use between 2008 and 2015. There’s a blur between self-care and more formal primary care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

AI underpins all retail experience now – which is something we’re hearing in healthcare whether at HIMSS, CES, SXSW, ePharma, and other conferences since the start of 2019. And that will enhance patient/consumer health experience and loyalty. Andy Karp of Jobson kicked off the afternoon’s content which focused on data and technology.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

I attended the annual 2019 HIMSS conference in February for nearly a week of meetings, interviews, education sessions, company private salons, and social media check-ins with my fellow and sister HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors. Read my post for more context and details into my post-HIMSS 2019 thinking on trust in data stewardship.

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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.” Let’s talk about Technology and Trust. health care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? What options do people have to opt out of sharing their personal/social data? What does “de-identification” mean in this scenario? Does the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

adults conducted in November 2019. ENGINE Insights polled over 2,000 auto owners in November 2019 and revealed that. In 2019, people in America ranked the most honest and ethical occupations in the nation as nurses (#1 for the 18th year in a row), pharmacists and doctors (along with engineers) in this annual Gallup Poll.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips published results from this global study in The Future Health Index 2019 , themed “Transforming healthcare experiences, exploring the impact of digital health technology on healthcare professionals and patients.”

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Northwest Career College

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , job growth for medical and health services managers is projected to grow significantly, with a notable percentage rise from 2019 to 2029. This includes everything from Privacy Laws, like the HIPAA Act, to changes in the mode of payment or issuance of insurance bills. According to the U.S.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 20, 2025

percent in five years, from 2014 to 2019. According to stats, market capital in 2019 is estimated to be about 45 billion dollars, and experts project the industry to grow to about 175 billion dollars by 2026. One of the regulatory legislation for health and safety is the HIPAA Law , along with others.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 4, 2024

(Source: Mental Health America ) Nearly 20 percent of young people and children between the ages 3 to 17 in the USA have a mental, developmental, emotional, or behavioral disorder, and suicidal behaviors among high school students increased by 40 percent in the decade before 2019, and accelerated in the post-Covid era.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

So welcome the Versa, one of many women-targeted health tools featured at CES 2019 that are getting real and impactful about women, tech and health. On a joyful note, Spade’s upbeat design sense lives on in 2019, featuring some adorable watches that track activity. In 2019, the company launches Ava tracker 2.0.

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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

While Peloton was a punchline in some peoples’ jokes at the 2019 holiday season ( see here ), the company had an enviable growing waiting list in 2020 — the right thing at the right time.

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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.,

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed its second financial penalty of the year to resolve a violation of the HIPAA Rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule gives individuals rights over their healthcare data, one of which is the right of an individual to obtain a copy of their health records.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

In the health/care data ecosystem, stakeholders are addressing the specific challenges related to personal health information (PHI) which HIPAA isn’t covering well in this era of Big Data, cloud computing, and of course, bad actors in the dark cybersecurity breach market. What’s not CGD are data covered by HIPAA.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). While we read a broad range of industry analysts’ reports using these nouns, their definitions vary so broadly as to be, by 2019, fairly meaningless in terms of how they quantify these markets.

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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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