The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality, Safety & Oversight Group sent a memo to state survey agency directors, effective immediately, clarifying HIPAA compliance for texting patient information and hospital orders at critical…
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CMS approves the use of HIPAA-compliant secure texting platforms for sending patient information and patient orders in hospitals and critical access hospitals.
Previous guidance from late 2017 allowed texting patient information if a…
What Is IT Asset Disposition?Consider the tens of millions of medical devices and the exhaustive number of computers, tablets and servers that hospitals rely on. Eventually, these tools either break down or become irrelevant…
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The Medical Group Management Association this week asked for greater transparency from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in its proposed information blocking rules – and outlined several key recommendations to…
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The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian, SVP Product Management at Reltio
When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts.
For example, in a survey by the…
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has apologised after it mistakenly released private information belonging to more than 22,000 patients in two major data breaches in 2020 and 2021.The trust released an official statement yesterday…
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The London Care Record has saved health and care professionals’ time up to a value of £44.4 million, helping them provide safe and effective care more quickly, according to an independent economic evaluation published…
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Kevin Kirkwood, Deputy CISO, LogRhythm
2022 research from Morning Consult reveals that the healthcare field in particular has witnessed substantial enhancements in medical diagnoses, mental health evaluations, and the expeditious discovery of treatment options following…
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NHS England awards a consortium that includes Palantir and Accenture a five-year, $415 million contract to develop and operate the Federated Data Platform data-sharing platform across NHS trusts and care sites.
Medical groups…
ISO 27001 is the premier global standard for establishing and maintaining an Information Security Management System (ISMS). Here’s a deeper look into ISO 27001 and its critical role in safeguarding patient data.The Scope of…
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