Category: eHealth
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When it comes to HIPAA, don’t be bossy with business associates
Don’t try to be Big Brother to your business associates (BAs) and put stress on your own healthcare organization as the new HIPAA omnibus rule goes into effect, warns Frank Ruelas, compliance officer at Gila River Healthcare in Sacaton, Ariz. read more Source: When it comes to HIPAA, don’t be bossy with business associates
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Survey: Dermatologists overwhelmingly use iPhones for work
A survey reveals that 85 percent of dermatologists use a smartphone, 90 percent of whom use Apple iPhones. Almost all (90 percent) of those iPhone users employ their devices for work-related… read more Source: Survey: Dermatologists overwhelmingly use iPhones for work
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eCHAT effective for lifestyle, mental health screening
Using iPads, a Web-based electronic Case-Finding and Help Assessment Tool (eCHAT) is an “acceptable and feasible” means of screening patients for unhealthy behaviors and negative mood… read more Source: eCHAT effective for lifestyle, mental health screening
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Battle against cancer needs help from app developers
In case you haven’t heard, the United States is facing a looming crisis in how our healthcare system treats cancer. With baby boomers entering their “tumor-prone” years, the delivery… read more Source: Battle against cancer needs help from app developers
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Health, fitness apps sending user data to third parties
The top 20 most popular health, wellness and fitness apps, including WebMD Health, are actively sharing user data with as many as 70 third-party companies, according to a blog post from web analytics… read more Source: Health, fitness apps sending user data to third parties
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Advocate Health slapped with lawsuit after massive data breach
Advocate Health Care – who in August reported the second largest HIPAA data breach to date after four unencrypted laptops were stolen from its facility, compromising the protected health information and Social Security numbers of more than 4 million people – has now been slapped with a class action lawsuit filed by affected patients. read…
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We need to put the care back into healthcare
By Nuance Communications Inc. (HealthTech Wire / News) – At Swiss eHealth Summit in Bern, the final keynote promises to be truly extraordinary: a vision of what the conversational user interface technologies of today (not tomorrow) could do to help get the doctor … Source: We need to put the care back into healthcare
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3 ways Beacons use data, standardized quality measures to transform care
Innovative pilots from the Beacon program have illustrated the potentialto bring together multiple sources of data and verify its validity to demonstrate the power of health IT to measure and improve care quality, according to a new policy brief from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. read more Source: 3 ways Beacons…
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Kaiser Permanente opens healthcare technology center in Colorado
As healthcare becomes increasingly advanced, there is a growing demand for high-tech solutions. Kaiser Permanente has participated in the evolution by opening a new healthcare technology center in Greenwood Village, Co. read more Source: Kaiser Permanente opens healthcare technology center in Colorado
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Addicted to your mobile device? It could lead to healthy outcomes
When it comes to consumers’ obsessive use of mobile devices to run mHealth apps and get health information, this kind of technology “addiction” might not be a bad thing, so argues… read more Source: Addicted to your mobile device? It could lead to healthy outcomes