EHRs have finally gained widespread adoption. According to 2021 data, 96% of non-federal acute hospitals in the U.S. deployed an EHR system. Nevertheless, the EHR market faces numerous challenges. In fact, about a quarter…
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The Federal Trade Commission has taken steps to sanction online counseling service BetterHelp, Inc. which it says shared sensitive healthcare data inappropriately. This is the latest move by the FTC to crack down on…
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The Federal Trade Commission has taken steps to sanction online counseling service BetterHelp, Inc. which it says shared sensitive healthcare data inappropriately. This is the latest move by the FTC to crack down on…
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By Shania Kennedy
March 13, 2023 – The New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) project approved pilot funding and the release of data for multiple research proposals addressing the project’s four top health…
By Hannah Nelson
March 13, 2023 – EHR vendor MEDHOST has joined the CommonWell Health Alliance network to advance health data exchange.
CommonWell Health Alliance operates a health information exchange (HIE) network of 34,000 clinical…
Ahead of the Digital Health Rewired conference, Professor Ben Goldacre, director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, explains why information governance is not enough when it comes to protecting privacy.The NHS holds…
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Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s…
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After months of criticism about its data privacy practices, Cerebral admitted that it wrongfully shared the private health information of 3.1 million of its users. This admission comes in the form of a March…
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While nearly all computational methods operate on pseudonymized personal data, re-identification remains a risk. With personal health data, this re-identification risk may be considered a double-crossing of patients’ trust. Herein, we present a new…
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The healthcare industry is one sector that can never grow stagnant. It’s constantly being inundated with new technologies that invite the accelerated digitization and evolution of healthcare into the present moment. Innovation is a…
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